Arts And Science Research
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28 Vanderbilt students named 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellows
The National Science Foundation has selected 28 Vanderbilt students for its 2023 Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Read MoreJun 13, 2023
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Vanderbilt launches Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative and interdisciplinary advisory board
Vanderbilt University has created the Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative and appointed members of an advisory board. Both will center their efforts around scholarship and opportunities connected to the growing use of nascent artificial intelligence technologies. Read MoreJun 7, 2023
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Thirteen named 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. The group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. Read MoreJun 7, 2023
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NEH awards stipend to Vanderbilt’s Meng Zhang for innovative edible bird’s nest research
Vanderbilt's Assistant Professor of History, Meng Zhang, has been awarded a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her intriguing research into the historical and societal implications of the edible bird's nest trade between China and maritime Asia. Read MoreMay 22, 2023
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NEH grant to help uncover history of lost historic Nashville neighborhood
A National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to Vanderbilt’s Angela Sutton, assistant dean for graduate education and strategic initiatives in the College of Arts and Science, will help fund the excavation of a historic Nashville neighborhood and a collection of the oral histories of the neighborhood’s descendants. Read MoreMay 16, 2023
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Vanderbilt social, political historian Jefferson Cowie wins Pulitzer for ‘Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power’
Jefferson Cowie, a celebrated U.S. politics and culture historian, has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his book that “radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.” Read MoreMay 10, 2023
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Vanderbilt Biologist investigates specialization and its impact on cultural evolution
The cultural evolution of a population depends not only on size but also on the degree of specialization within a population, according to a new study published last month by a team of scientists including Nicole Creanza. The study found that populations can increase their cultural repertoire by subdividing knowledge into smaller groups, but the total group must be sufficiently large for specialization to be advantageous. Read MoreApr 20, 2023
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Vanderbilt Researchers find Evidence for Evolutionary Constraints on Immunity
A new study led by members of Ann Tate’s lab found evidence that pleiotropy may slow down evolution of genes involved in immunity. Read MoreApr 20, 2023
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Vanderbilt economist: Tennessee’s early open COVID-19 testing policies worked to slow the spread
Tennessee’s open COVID testing policy reduced actual COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Costs of expanded testing were so low that essentially any reduction in the number of deaths due to the policy would justify its cost. Read MoreApr 17, 2023
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Vanderbilt Team finds Evolutionary Support for Induced Defenses
Graduate student Reese Martin and his doctoral advisor, Ann Tate, assistant professor of biological sciences, used theoretical modeling to identify a potential relationship between genetic pleiotropy and the evolution of immune responses. Read MoreApr 13, 2023
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Vanderbilt launches Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Protein Dynamics
Led by Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Basic Sciences professor Hassane Mchaourab, the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence in Protein Dynamics will focus on the application of machine learning techniques to understand how proteins work. Read MoreApr 12, 2023
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Attention to disease naming and framing can shape public health attitudes, perceptions
Research from Associate Professor of Medical and Linguistic Anthropology T.S. Harvey demonstrates how a disease’s name can have a significant impact on the public’s perception, attitude and behavior toward the disease. Harvey argues that disease names should be selected with careful consideration of their potential impacts on public health from the framing of risk perceptions through the circulation of harmful misinformation. Read MoreApr 11, 2023
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Trio of Vanderbilt Researchers Identify Variable Outcomes in Experimental Evolution
Sarah Worthan, along with Robert McCarthy and Megan Behringer, led a new effort to understand the effects of the environment on the outcome of experimental evolution studies. Read MoreApr 11, 2023
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Vanderbilt researcher finds evidence for ant caste systems driven by chemo-sensing responses
Stephen Ferguson, first-author of a new paper with his postdoctoral advisor, Laurence Zwiebel, along with two undergraduates associated with the lab, Isaac Bakis and Nicholas Edwards, confirmed the existence of a specialized soldier caste within an ant species. Read MoreApr 3, 2023
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International collaboration yields breakthrough that could revolutionize computing technologies
Scientists from Vanderbilt and UCAS made a breakthrough in single-atom vibrational spectroscopy in graphene, crucial to understanding materials’ thermal properties and nanophotonics. Read MoreMar 28, 2023
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Paul C. Taylor receives $350K Mellon Foundation grant for EDI study
Paul C. Taylor, W. Alton Jones Professor and professor of philosophy, has received an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to seek out patterns in the way people and organizations think about equity, diversity and inclusion, which can impact EDI interventions. Read MoreMar 8, 2023
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NSF funds College of Arts and Science and Peabody College collaboration to improve equity in STEM education
By Jenna Somers Cynthia Brame, Heather Johnson, Cristina Zepeda Vanderbilt researchers in the College of Arts and Science and Peabody College of education and human development recently received a three-year grant exceeding $280,000 from the National Science Foundation to collaborate on a study aimed at improving equity… Read MoreMar 3, 2023
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Grant helps Vanderbilt-Fisk partnership build first-ever U.S. graduate certificate course in multi-messenger astronomy
The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, a partnership to create equitable pathways to STEM, has been awarded a Sloan Foundation grant for the first U.S. graduate certificate course in multi-messenger astronomy. Read MoreMar 3, 2023
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David Weintraub elected 2023 American Astronomical Society Fellow
David Weintraub, professor of astronomy, was named an American Astronomical Society fellow for his groundbreaking research and his work in communicating astronomy to the public. Read MoreFeb 8, 2023
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Learning Assistants program increases student belonging and interest in STEM fields
Several Vanderbilt STEM departments have launched an innovative new peer educator program. Learning Assistants facilitate fellow students’ learning, increase their sense of belonging and provide them with inspirational role models in the STEM fields. Read MoreFeb 3, 2023