Research

Associate Professor of Nursing Laurie Connors has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health National Human Genome Research Institute to train doctoral nurses in the translation and integration of genomics into academics, research and clinical practice. Read More

On July 1, the Program for Extracellular Vesicle Research became one of the nine official centers and institutes associated with the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. The Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research is led by Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Alissa Weaver, who holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and also led the center’s previous incarnation as a program.... Read More

On July 1, the Program for Extracellular Vesicle Research became one of the nine official centers and institutes associated with the School of Medicine Basic Sciences. The Center for Extracellular Vesicle Research is led by Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Alissa Weaver, who holds the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and also led the center’s previous incarnation as a program.... Read More

Vanderbilt University may submit one application to the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee's Discretionary Grants program. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee is positioned to assess community needs and opportunities and support quality programs providing solutions. Read More

Vanderbilt (VU and VUMC, collaboratively) may select one nominee for the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. These three-year career development awards enable junior faculty members to carry out innovative bioethics research that goes beyond current work in bioethics. Read More

Professor of Management María del Carmen Triana and a team of researchers explored how research into diversity in the workplace has morphed over time and provided suggestions for Human Resources managers. Read More

Two engineering doctoral students have received 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Sponsored and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the NDSEG Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of 15 supported disciplines. Fellowship selections are made by the... Read More

Two engineering doctoral students have received 2021 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Sponsored and funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, the NDSEG Fellowship is a highly competitive fellowship awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a doctoral degree in one of 15 supported disciplines. Fellowship selections are made by the... Read More

Teri W. Odom, an expert in designing structured nanoscale materials, will be the keynote speaker of the 21st Annual Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Forum on Nov. 19. Read More

The School of Medicine Basic Sciences brought together a biologist, a Christian theologist, a philosopher and an astrophysicist June 17 for a lab-to-table conversation exploring their views and academic perspectives on the origins of life. Read More

This program supports individual scientists of exceptional creativity who have an M.D. or Ph.D. degree and who have completed by July 1, 2022, a minimum of three years of a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of basic or clinical neurosciences at a medical school. Read More

Vanderbilt may submit one application to the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Events Sponsorship Program. Applicants may request up to $4,000 to support events that involve participants from more than one ORAU institution, including students. Read More

New research spotlights the unintended effects of threshold-based regulations in the auto industry and beyond. Read More

By Collier Roberts Members of the Vanderbilt community meet with a staff member from the Office of Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN09). (Office of Federal Relations) Two graduate students from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and one from the School of Medicine recently addressed legislators in Washington, D.C., virtually, sharing stories about the important role funding from... Read More

Two graduate students from Vanderbilt’s School of Engineering and one from the School of Medicine Basic Sciences recently addressed legislators in Washington, D.C., virtually, sharing stories about the important role funding from the National Science Foundation has played in their research and training. Read More

A gene variant that lowers white blood cell levels and is common in individuals with African ancestry contributes to unnecessary bone marrow biopsies, according to a study published June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.  The findings, led by investigators at VUMC, are an example of how using genetic data could reduce a health disparity.  Read More

Researchers at Vanderbilt's Latin American Public Opinion Project Lab have found that when faced with the COVID-19 health crisis, Haitians rallied around their president, despite his struggle to maintain order and support prior to the pandemic. Read More

Multi-university team tackles safety systems for autonomous eVTOLs Vanderbilt engineers are part of a NASA-funded, multi-institution effort to develop safety systems for a mode of transportation that doesn’t exist yet—small, commercial, autonomous planes that move people by air between locations in large, crowded cities. The task is a formidable one with machine learning at its... Read More

Multi-university team tackles safety systems for autonomous eVTOLs Vanderbilt engineers are part of a NASA-funded, multi-institution effort to develop safety systems for a mode of transportation that doesn’t exist yet—small, commercial, autonomous planes that move people by air between locations in large, crowded cities. The task is a formidable one with machine learning at its... Read More

Vanderbilt University may nominate up to three tenure-track faculty per department for the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's 2022 Sloan Research Fellowships. The goal of the fellowships is to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Read More