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Brooke Ellis, Vanderbilt swimmer, first CSET student to achieve highest honors

Aug. 8, 2023—Read more about Brooke Ellis and her journey to becoming the first CSET student to achieve highest honors.

‘RadioLab’ founder Jad Abumrad joins Vanderbilt

Aug. 8, 2023—Jad Abumrad, a public radio icon, podcast pioneer and founder of Radiolab, will join Vanderbilt University to lead and advise on several areas of work, including the launch of a new podcast institute designed to become a national center of excellence for the evolving profession of digital narratives. Read the full story here.

Collage of three book covers for "I'm an Astroner Now!" "I'm a Biomedical Informatics Expert Now!" and "I'm a Birarchaeologist Now!"

STEM role models inspire future scientists through storytelling

Aug. 8, 2023—A group of Vanderbilt students with diverse majors joined their creative forces for an immersive writing challenge: Take sophisticated science, technology, engineering and math topics and make them compelling for fourth graders. How did they do it? Through storytelling. Read the full story here.