Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN·Private·Medical school
22 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.3B a year on research and awards 494 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 14,360: 7,285 undergraduates, 7,075 graduate
- Postdocs
- 417
- Faculty
- 1,360 full-time
- Campus
- Highly residential
Labs here
Karan Jani
Astronomy & Astrophysics·Early-career
Establish a framework for multiband, multi-messenger observation of intermediate-mass black holes and binary neutron star mergers in the 0.1–10 Hz band that LIGO and LISA cannot reach, to guide next-generation gravitational-wave detectors.
David Andrew Hyde
Computer Science·Early-career
Develop optimized GPU implementations of grids, particles, octrees and linear solvers as the foundation of COSTA, an open cloud platform for physics simulation.
Amy Needham
Psychology
Test whether drumming lessons improve inhibitory control — the ability to hold back an impulse — in 7- to 12-year-old children with Down syndrome, comparing an immediate-lesson group with a wait-list control group across two lab visits.
David Aaron Jacobson
Physiology
Determine how the calcium pump PMCA1 and sodium/calcium exchanger NCX1 control β-cell calcium removal and insulin secretion, and how diabetes alters them, using β-cell knockout mice and human pseudoislets with shRNA knockdown.
Krishnendu Roy
Education Research
Pilot connected programs at Vanderbilt, Fisk, UConn and Northeastern that support neurodiverse engineering students from undergraduate study through graduate training and into the workforce.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.