Jedidah Isler
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Vanderbilt astrophysicist makes ‘The Root’s’ 100 List of Black Influencers
Vanderbilt astrophysicist Jedidah Isler has joined Beyoncé, LeBron James and Serena Williams as a member of The Root’s 100 List of Black Influencers. Read MoreSep 27, 2016
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Rising Star: Jedidah Isler is forging new paths in astrophysics—and diversity among aspiring scientists
As a little girl growing up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Jedidah Isler was obsessed with the sky. “I really just thought it was beautiful,” she says, “and I remember feeling a sense of calm whenever I looked up.” Today that same sense of calm and wonderment continues to help fuel Isler’s… Read MoreJun 22, 2016
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Isler named one of ‘National Geographic’s’ first Emerging Explorers
Observational astrophysicist Jedidah Isler, a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt, has been selected as a member of the National Geographic Society's inaugural class of Emerging Explorers. Read MoreMay 18, 2016
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Lessons Learned
In the fall of 1902, Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, a zoologist with the U.S. Public Health Service, got a hunch that parasites were causing large swaths of the South’s rural poor to suffer an array of debilitating symptoms. Read MoreMay 12, 2016
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Rising Star: Jedidah Isler Is Forging New Paths in Astrophysics—and Diversity Among Aspiring Scientists
Jedidah Isler, a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Vanderbilt’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, has emerged as an increasingly high-profile advocate for diversity among science, technology, engineering and mathematics researchers. Read MoreMay 12, 2016