Cicadas

  • Vanderbilt University

    Novel research explores way to restore silenced voices

    A 2011 cicada swarm is leading to transinstitutional research at the Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to develop a surgical planning tool to help restore speech for people with vocal fold paralysis. Read More

    Mar 22, 2018

  • Vanderbilt University

    VUCast: I’m helping you!

    Cicadas could hold clues to fighting diseases – catch some cool facts about the bugs. Plus, a “funny” new pain killer for moms; and changing America’s most important safeguard against government abuse. [vucastblurb]    … Read More

    Jun 17, 2011

  • blue-eyed cicada

    Bad buzz about blue-eyed cicadas

    Photo of a true blue-eyed cicada (Matt Weiss, Cicada Mania) Have you heard the latest buzz going round that scientists at Vanderbilt are paying as much as $3,000 for specimens of the rare blue-eyed cicada? If you have, I hope you haven’t spent a lot of time… Read More

    Jun 2, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    Editor’s Note

    Learn from the cicadas and live your life to the fullest. Read More

    Jun 2, 2011