Ph.D.

  • Vanderbilt University

    New PhDs’ work will fuel advancements in industry, medicine, academia

    Concerns about the novel coronavirus changed much on campus this spring, including how some doctoral candidates presented their research. But dissertation defenses proceeded, some of them virtually, maintaining the vital responsibility of a major research university to evaluate the work of Ph.D. candidates before they move on to their next… Read More

    Apr. 21, 2020

  • Vanderbilt University

    Engineering alum among youngest African American tenured professors in computer science

    James Hill, an associate professor of computer and information science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has become one of the youngest African Americans to become a tenured professor in computer science at a research university in the United States. Hill gained that distinction in August, when his tenure appointment in… Read More

    Nov. 5, 2015