Research

Physics professor Joseph H. Hamilton has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea, a non-governmental association that serves as a European academy of arts and sciences. Read More

Compounds developed at Vanderbilt could offer a whole new way to treat atherosclerosis. Read More

Children learn more from television when parents interact with them similarly to book reading. Read More

Even when lung operations for suspected cancer resection results in a benign diagnosis, there still may be significant benefits to the procedure, new research suggests. Read More

Photo of post doctoral researcher Michal Kliman that ran on the cover of Chemical & Engineering News magazine in October. (Steve Green / Vanderbilt) In the world of molecular biology, lipids haven’t gotten as much respect or attention as nucleic acids and proteins even though they play… Read More

Individuals with atrial fibrillation who have a particular genetic variant respond better to rate control therapy. Read More

Nursing shortage eased by 62 percent increase in young nurses over past decade. Read More

Recreational use of the "rave" drug Ecstasy is associated with chronic changes in the human brain. Read More

Structural biology studies of a bacterial protein suggest a new target for treating life-threatening heart infection. Read More

Molecular players involved in colon cancer progression could provide new biomarkers to indicate invasiveness and prognosis. Read More

Groundbreaking new legal research from a team of Vanderbilt University and other researchers suggests that juror confusion over how to apply the Model Penal Code in criminal trials could cause major, unnoticed and life-altering sentencing errors. Read More

Recent ongoing research highlights the Institute for Software Integrated Systems' broad, multidisciplinary impact. Read More

When the Republican presidential candidates ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric this campaign season, they are likely to alienate conservative-leaning Latinos. Read More

Two western Pennsylvania school systems will use a program developed at Vanderbilt University to encourage young black males to be successful in school and go on to college. Read More

Students displaced by school closures experience adverse effects both on test scores and attendance—unless they are transferred to substantially higher-performing schools. Read More

Management professor David Owens of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management says that business and other leaders need to understand exactly which of the constraints are working against them to help create conditions that foster innovation instead of killing it. Read More

  Vanderbilt's virtual control room for the CMS detector that allows scientists and students to participate in meetings, monitor the experiment and analyze the data that it produces (John Russell / Vanderbilt University) After the most complete search yet, the world’s largest atom smasher, the… Read More

A Vanderbilt study shows that a class of drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases does not increase the chance of hospitalization for serious infection. Read More

(iStock) Fatty liver, a reversible condition of fat accumulation in liver cells, can result from excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, type 2 diabetes, or metabolic disorders. Exercise can reverse this process, but the mechanisms underlying this effect are not clear. Because exercise is known to stimulate the action of glucagon (a… Read More

A new mouse model provides a tool for testing novel therapeutic approaches for neurofibromatosis. Read More