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NEW FACULTY: Professors explain what excites them about their transformative research
Get to know some of our newest faculty as they explain what excites them about their transformative work and the positive impact it can have on society.The post NEW FACULTY: Professors explain what excites them about their transformative research appea... Read MoreSeptember 14, 2026
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CCC Student Spotlight: Jacqueline Frist, MS and BS in Computer Science
Meet Jacqueline, a Computer Science student passionate about technology and AI, whose journey began with a required coding class that ignited her interest. In the inaugural video of the College of Connected Computing’s The Answer is Human Spotlight Series, Jacqueline shares how this pivotal moment led her to pursue both… Read MoreSeptember 8, 2026
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Jeff and Marieke Rothschild commit $25 million to establish Rothschild Fellows Program for College of Connected Computing
Jeff Rothschild, BA’77, MS’79, vice chair of Vanderbilt University’s Board of Trust, and his wife, Marieke, have committed $25 million to launch the Rothschild Fellows Program at Vanderbilt’s San Francisco campus. The program will provide cohort-based ... Read MoreSeptember 2, 2026
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Vanderbilt researchers awarded prestigious NIH R37 grant to develop AI-powered navigation system for kidney cancer surgery
A multidisciplinary team of Vanderbilt researchers has received a prestigious R37 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop an enhanced visualization and navigation system for the endoscopic treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC), a cancer of the kidney’s inner… Read MoreAugust 31, 2026
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Day in the Life of a CCC Intern
Written by: Henry Lynch | Vanderbilt Junior | History and Economics Major I grew up in a quaint little town in Wisconsin, took a gap year, spent a year at a Canadian university, and then transferred to Vanderbilt. My path here has been more of a wander than a… Read MoreAugust 20, 2026
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Shape the Future of Computing at the College of Connected Computing
As technology advances at an unprecedented pace, Vanderbilt University’s College of Connected Computing (CCC) is dedicated to showcasing that the true advantage lies in human judgment and insight. Built on Vanderbilt’s historic interdisciplinary strengths, the CCC prepares students to harness the power of AI, data science, and computational thinking across… Read MoreAugust 17, 2026
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Data Science Institute develops custom scheduling software for Vanderbilt alum-founded healthcare startup
How the AI Fridays program helped SOS Care Now’s founder advance his organization When Dr. John Moustoukas, a 2006 Vanderbilt School of Engineering alum, launched SOS Care Now roughly six months ago, a Chicago-area house-call practice that sends emergency-trained physicians to patients’ homes for acute and urgent… Read MoreAugust 13, 2026
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Vanderbilt junior uses brain scans to teach AI to think like a human coder
Landri Domingue grew up being told she communicated differently. Today, she is teaching artificial intelligence to communicate better. Domingue, a rising junior studying computer science, is working this summer in Dr. Yu Huang’s Mixed Intelligence Development for Programming Lab (MIND Lab) through Vanderbilt’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Supported by… Read MoreAugust 11, 2026
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Clayton Cohn: Teaching AI to teach the way students actually learn
A sixth grader sits down with a chatbot to talk through a science quiz. In most classrooms, that conversation unfolds the way it does with any general-purpose AI tool: friendly, fluent, and mostly improvised, with no real reasoning behind why it says what it says. Clayton Cohn wants to change… Read MoreAugust 4, 2026
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How to Become a Prompt Engineer
Written by: Kara Coleman Fields This article was originally posted in US News. Read more. Presenting a generative AI program with information, a request or a problem to solve is called inputting a prompt. The better prompts you input, the better results you can expect to receive as… Read MoreJuly 30, 2026