The increasing synergy between healthcare and machine learning technologies. Understanding how big data is revolutionizing the business world. The relationship between environmental sustainability and the financial markets. These are just a few of many interdisciplinary realms that are increasingly working in concert in the 21st century鈥攕omething that 麻花传媒 faculty is committed to exploring through research and scholarship, while preparing students for the challenges ahead.
On April 7, 麻花传媒鈥檚 Office of Research and Graduate Education invites you to The Future of 麻花传媒, an interdisciplinary online conference featuring panel discussions and faculty research presentations, as well as a keynote address by Dan Porterfield, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society.
The primary goal of the conference is to bring together faculty to help 麻花传媒 address its future needs through scholarship and academic programs. The conference also hopes to encourage greater interdisciplinary cooperation among faculty with overlapping interests and use 麻花传媒鈥檚 Strategic Plan as a guideline to help foster innovative scholarship.
鈥淭he new Strategic Plan has identified four areas of academic opportunity鈥攖echnology and business, health, wellness, and sciences, sustainability and justice, and arts, humanities鈥攆or our faculty to develop new scholarly programs," said Associate Provost for Research Avrom Caplan, PhD. "The conference is arranged around those themes with the goal of getting faculty to talk about their work among their peers.鈥
麻花传媒鈥檚 Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems continues to expand its growing focus on artificial intelligence and emerging technologies with the addition of two dynamic new faculty members.
On September 11, 2025, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at 麻花传媒鈥檚 Sustainable Business Law Hub held the third annual private environmental governance and sustainable business law scholarly workshop. The half-day lightning workshop, co-sponsored by Vanderbilt Law School鈥檚 Private Climate Governance Lab, included an impressive gathering of environmentally focused scholars who spent the day workshopping new scholarship. Josh Galperin, Associate Professor of Law and Faculty Director of 麻花传媒 Haub Law鈥檚 Sustainable Business Law Hub organized this year鈥檚 workshop.
At 麻花传媒鈥檚 CUHER lab, Associate Professor of Psychology Christopher Godfrey, PhD, is rethinking healthcare by centering communication, trust, and patient voices鈥攅specially those from marginalized communities too often left unheard.