Arts And Science
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Vanderbilt’s Keivan Stassun named 2024 MacArthur fellow
Stassun, who is also a founding co-director the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, was among the 2024 MacArthur fellows announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The fellowship, which is awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, aims to identify extraordinarily creative individuals with a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice. Recipients also demonstrate the ability to affect society in significant and beneficial ways through their pioneering work or the rigor of their contributions, according to the foundation. Read MoreOct 2, 2024
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Evolved in the lab, found in nature: Uncovering hidden pH sensing abilities
In a groundbreaking study led by Sarah Worthan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the Behringer Lab at Vanderbilt University, scientists have successfully evolved microbial cultures that possess the ability to sense pH changes, enabling rapid responses to environmental fluctuations. Read MoreOct 1, 2024
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Vanderbilt researchers find warming quickens aging-related mortality in mosquitoes
New research shows that warming and aging act as a one-two punch, lowering mosquito lifespans and fanning the flames of bacterial infections. These findings highlight how climate change could alter the risks of disease spread by mosquitoes. Read MoreSep 26, 2024
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Nominations now open for Berg Global Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
The College of Arts and Science has announced that nominations for the Berg Global Artist-in-Residence Fellowship are now open until September 30. All Vanderbilt faculty are eligible to submit nominations, and nominations by interdisciplinary teams of faculty are encouraged. Read MoreSep 24, 2024
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Garland Hall renovation celebrates milestone with topping out ceremony
The College of Arts and Science celebrated a major milestone in the Garland Hall capital project with a topping out ceremony on Sept. 12. The project, which includes a strategic renovation and expansion, began in 2021. Read MoreSep 23, 2024
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Stephen Taylor appointed to NASA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna mission
Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA. LISA is a space-based gravitational wave detector constructed of three spacecraft separated by millions of miles in a triangle shape as big as the sun. Read MoreSep 19, 2024
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Research snapshot: Examining the impact of negative media coverage on LGBTQ+ young adults
Kirsty Clark, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, studies mental health disparities impacting LGBTQ+ populations through her lab. Clark recently published research that explores the effects of negative news and media coverage on the intensity of suicidal thoughts in LGBTQ+ young adults. Read MoreSep 19, 2024
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Center for Global Democracy extends the work begun by LAPOP Lab
The College of Arts and Science has launched the Center for Global Democracy, a premier social science institute dedicated to pioneering research and innovation in democratic politics around the world. Noam Lupu, professor of political science, directs the new center. Read MoreSep 18, 2024
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NEW FACULTY: Sharing wisdom with ‘advice to my younger self’
New faculty share advice to their younger selves we can all learn from! Read MoreSep 16, 2024
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U.S. senator and ambassador Jim Sasser, BA’58, JD’61, dies at 87
James R. Sasser, BA’58, JD’61, was a three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China. (Ann Rayner/Vanderbilt) James R. Sasser, BA’58, JD’61, a former three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China, died Sept. 10 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a statesman who loved Tennessee… Read MoreSep 13, 2024
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Researchers discover the evolution of seasonal anticipation in cyanobacteria
New research led by recent Vanderbilt Ph.D. alumna Maria Luísa Jabbur from the Johnson Lab and BBSRC Discovery Fellow at the John Innes Centre, in the UK has uncovered that even cyanobacteria—tiny organisms with a generation time of just five to six hours—can sense and respond to changes in light availability, or photoperiod, to gear up for winter. Read MoreSep 12, 2024
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NEW FACULTY: Vanderbilt’s new faculty explain their transformative research
Meet some of our new faculty members and learn about their fascinating research. Read MoreSep 4, 2024
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Restoring Vanderbilt’s Natural History Museum: Rediscovering the lost plesiosaur (cast)
Embarking on a new research project often brings unexpected discoveries—some intriguing, some novel, but rarely a find of a lifetime. Such a remarkable discovery occurred when university archivist and associate director Kathy Smith stumbled upon a pile of plaster, hidden away for 60 years in a dim, cluttered closet of the Branscomb Quad basement. This plaster turned out to be the long-lost Crampton’s Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s, missing for nearly six decades. Read MoreSep 3, 2024
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Department of Mathematics announces fall dates for free math instruction community program for local middle and high school students
The Nashville Math Circle is back for fall 2024, and registration is now open. The program provides Nashville-area students in grades 7–12 the opportunity to learn creative math problem-solving skills in a friendly, fun environment from leading Vanderbilt faculty. Read MoreSep 3, 2024
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Rediscovering the Lost Plesiosaur (Cast): Restoring Vanderbilt’s Natural History Museum
Research projects investigating the history of evolution at Vanderbilt University led to the rediscovery of a long-lost Crampton’s Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s. Read MoreAug 29, 2024
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NEW FACULTY: Vanderbilt’s newest professors explain why they chose Vanderbilt
Hear from some of the newest faculty on why they're excited to work at Vanderbilt. Read MoreAug 28, 2024
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10 faculty honored for excellence in research, service during 2024 Fall Faculty Assembly
Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, Provost C. Cybele Raver and Faculty Senate Chair Alissa Hare, who is assistant dean of the College of Arts and Science, presented awards at this year’s Fall Faculty Assembly to 10 faculty members who have made significant contributions through their scholarship, research or creative expression. Read MoreAug 26, 2024
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‘The Choice: Meacham and Geer on 2024’ begins this week
Premiering Aug. 28, The Choice, produced by Dialogue Vanderbilt and featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning author and presidential historian Jon Meacham and Vanderbilt professor, polling expert and political scientist John Geer, will discuss the key moments and the many implications of the 2024 presidential election. Read MoreAug 26, 2024
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Michelle Young: Modeling ethical practices in Peruvian archaeology
Since 2020, Vanderbilt archaeologist Michelle Young has directed the Cinnabar Roads Project, which explores ancient exchange routes used to transport cinnabar, a powdery mineral made of mercury and sulfur that was extracted and processed for pigment. Young’s two major research initiatives approach mapping ancient networks of interaction and mobility between the highland region and the coast, employing a variety of methods at different scales. Under her leadership, the Cinnabar Roads Project has registered more than 100 archaeological sites in the Huancavelica region. Read MoreAug 21, 2024
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Curb Scholars Program welcomes five new scholars
The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy has selected three incoming first-year students and two rising sophomore students for the Curb Scholars Program in Creative Enterprise and Public Leadership. Read MoreAug 19, 2024