Updates

2026

• Caroline’s work is featured in PsyPosts!
• Ashley Hao receives Brutoco Fellowship from Notre Dame for Research Excellence
• Shelby Buettner receives Deans Fellowship from Notre Dame for Research Excellence
• Ashley Hao wins Peabody Medal from Vanderbilt University for Academic Excellence
• Chi Luo receives the High Honor distinction from Vanderbilt University for excellence in her undergraduate honors thesis
• Brain Camp receives Most Innovative Youth Programming award from Vanderbilt University
• Featured: Vinci-Booher paper examines brain change during learning intervention, other important moments of fluctuation, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Notables

2025

• Expert comment: The power of a handwritten letter: Why a college basketball coach writes hundreds a month, The Athletic
• Featured: A legacy of PBS excellence, IU PBS News
• Trainee featured (Shelby Buettner): Drawing Symbols Leads to Lasting Changes in Brain Function, VKC: The Promise of Discovery Podcast

2024

• Expert comment: Why writing by hand is better for memory and learning, Scientific American
• Expert comment: Winners of national penmanship contest crowned as handwriting is ‘having a moment’, NBC News
• Expert comment: Taking Exams in Blue Books? They're Back to Help Curb AI Use and Rampant Cheating, KQED MindShift
• Featured: Heard Libraries’ Digital Lab awards seed grants to four emerging digital initiatives, Library News Online
• Featured: Twelve Peabody faculty members awarded global engagement funding, Peabody Ideas in Action
• Featured: 20 under 40: 2024, The College, Indiana University
• Sophia Vinci-Booher receives Outstanding Early Career Award from Indiana University
• Sophia Vinci-Booher receives Top 20 under 40 Award from Indiana University

2023

• Featured: Vinci-Booher leads multi-institutional research on child learning using first-ever neuroimaging process, Peabody Ideas in Action
• Featured: Vanderbilt’s educational neuroscience program is epicenter of research in the field, Vestigo, School of Medicine Basic Sciences at Vanderbilt University
• Featured: Leading the Vanguard: Sophia Vinci-Booher, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Notables

2018

• Featured: From feeling lost to triumphant: An interview with PhD Candidate Sophia Vinci-Booher, ScIU: Conversations in Science at Indiana University

2017

• Featured, cover article: Basement wizards defy the magnet, PBS Update at Indiana University
• Featured: Graduate students help prepare local teens for high school and beyond, News at IU: Science and Technology