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PhD Day 2023

Sep. 6, 2023—PhD Day is upon us! Come support our second- and third-year doctoral students as they present their research on September 29, 2023, from 8:30am-12:30pm. For more information, including links to presentations, visit our PhD Day site. You can also follow along on social media using #VandyPhDDay. Hope to see you there!

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Jasmine Ma Award Winners

Apr. 21, 2017—2018: Grace Chen Grace has been influential in so many of our experiences here in so many ways. On a personal level, she is always reaching out to people to hear how they are experiencing various facets of graduate school or life, and genuinely working to solve issues that are within her control. Academically, she is...

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Milestone Examples

Apr. 11, 2017—Reminder that there is a folder in the DTL Documents folder on Google Drive with students’ previous Milestone Examples. Use these to help think about your own milestones. If you do not have access to this folder or would like the link, please email Amanda Bell (I do not want to post it on here for...

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Sign up for AERA Presentation Practice Sessions

Mar. 28, 2017—https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18yaxtbw1Hm6E3MYhDdvSt06hu2U-dRBqdIbFlL2L9PA/edit#gid=0 Use the google doc to sign up for a session to practice your presentation for AERA!    

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Recruitment Weekend Wrap-Up

Feb. 13, 2017—Another wonderful (and tiring) recruitment weekend in the books! Recruits, we hope you enjoyed it, and please feel free to email any of the doc students or faculty you met with any more questions! Current doc students, thank you for all your help and support with the recruitment events, as always.

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Recruitment Weekend Feb. 10-12, 2017

Jan. 23, 2017— Ph.D. Recruitment Weekend General Itinerary February 10-12, 2017  Hotel: Holiday Inn Nashville-Vanderbilt, 2613 West End Ave  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10  Arrival of Guests  5:45 p.m.   Carpool leaves hotel for dinner transport – Dinner at Dr. Tesha Sengupta-Irving’s house (with faculty and current students)  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11  9:00 a.m.   Meet in hotel lobby for transport to optional morning activities...

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Doc Student Profiles

Jan. 23, 2017—Go to the Profiles page to see the most up-to-date information about current doc students, their advisors, and their research interests/bios. And see the recent doc student family tree below:

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Jasmine Ma Award 2016

Jan. 16, 2017—A belated congratulations to Jennifer Kahn and the Interaction Analysis Lab for receiving the 2016 Jasmine Ma Award for service to the DTL DSA community! Great work!

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WE ARE SMART

Mar. 16, 2016—Breaking news: Rogers has called the doc students [some of] “the smartest people in the building” (at the March faculty meeting).

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What Are You Presenting at AERA?

Feb. 3, 2015—The online program schedule is out.  Give a shout out about sessions that you think would be of interest to our community, or tell us about what you’re presenting. Go! Photo Credit: Nina Stawski via Compfight cc

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