Life Beyond the Curriculum

Beyond the Classroom

Graduate education at Vanderbilt extends beyond the classroom and the lab to provide diverse opportunities for professional development and personal fun. As a leading collaborative research university we have countless opportunities for you to enhance your training, skills, and resume while continuing to make progress on your thesis work. Some examples are listed below.

• Biomedical Career Development: Vanderbilt is leading the charge to find novel ways to improve individual students’ professional development
• ASPIRE Path in Molecular Medicine: integrate your thesis work with clinical, disease-based training
• Teaching Support and Training: get experience and training from expert teachers
• Collaborative STEM Education and Outreach program: share your passion for science with the community, a program through the Peabody School of Education
• Vanderbilt Student Volunteers for Science: provides outreach to local schools, and provides role models for school children
• Discovery lecture series: seminars given to the Vanderbilt community by the best scientists in the world
• Departmental Seminars: learn about current science though numerous lectures given daily