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The School of Medicine Basic Sciences’ Center for Addiction Research hosted a conversation featuring researchers and advocates about the intersection of incarceration, societal reentry and addiction for National Women Touched by Addiction Day, July 23. Read More

Thomas Talbot, professor of medicine and chief hospital epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, shares why it's important for people to get vaccinated, even if they've already had COVID-19. Read More

Daniel Genkins, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of History, worked with the Data Science Institute to build a machine learning pipeline to process digitized ecclesiastical records that touch on the lives of people of African descent, both free and enslaved, in the early modern Atlantic. Read More

Holly McCammon, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and professor of law and sociology, shares how a partnership with the Data Science Institute shaped her research on court cases that consider women and the law. Read More

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Larisa DeSantis discusses pizzly bears (grizzy + polar bear hybrid species)! Read More

Research Snapshot: Behavioral science identifies best way to convince people to get vaccinated. Est reading time: 1.5 minutes Read More

Dental analysis from Larisa DeSantis shows that polar bears may not be able to compete for food sources as their environment melts away. Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day, the Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt biochemists figure out how the little-understood Envelope protein helps SARS-CoV-2 function and how to disrupt the endogenously creative virus. Read More

Experience Vanderbilt University in 360 degrees using a virtual reality headset or the YouTube app on your smart phone (make sure to move your phone around!). Read More

What is more daring—camping in a remote part of Antarctica for a month doing field research, or directing and performing in a musical revue about the environment? For Earth and Environmental Sciences major Andrew Grant, pushing boundaries to positively impact the Earth, and the people who call it home, are equally thrilling. Read More

Watch the cheers and the tears as returning Vandy students move in the Class of 2021 at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Read More

Vanderbilt’s director of photography says there are conflicting views about possible damage to your smartphone when photographing the eclipse. Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day, the Vanderbilt… Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day, the Vanderbilt… Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day, the Vanderbilt… Read More

Vanderbilt University astronomer Billy Teets explains the historic path of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21. Teets says the eclipse will only be viewable along a 70-mile-wide path from the West Coast to the East Coast. Read More

July 23 is National Women Touched by Addiction Day, an awareness day created by Nashville nonprofit Mending Hearts to recognize women who have faced addiction firsthand or have felt its effects through others, and to call for the destigmatization of addiction. In recognition of this day, the Vanderbilt… Read More

Imagine a “DNA photocopier” small enough to hold in your hand that could identify the bacteria or virus causing an infection even before the symptoms appear. Read More

"Mood ring materials" constitute a new type of smart sensing technology that could play an important role in minimizing and mitigating damage to the nation's failing infrastructure. Read More