News and Information from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Notables is a monthly e-newsletter to share stories about discoveries and best practices that are opening doors and transforming lives for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) researcher Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., is the recipient of a $10,000 honorarium from the 2020 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President’s Pat Summitt Award. Cascio was chosen to receive the honorarium by Gail…
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Donna and Jeffrey Eskind, whose generous gifts have advanced Vanderbilt research that is improving lives, have made a new commitment of $2 million to endow a new chair in autism spectrum disorder research in the School of…
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Olivia Murry is a senior at Next Steps at Vanderbilt. Though she is taking a deferment year from the inclusive higher education program during the COVID-19 pandemic, she remains connected and committed to disability education and…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) has been awarded a $6.8 million, five-year grant to continue as a national Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC). The VKC, founded in 1965, is one of the nation’s…
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