Science

A plan to use nanotechnology to produce a new type of cancer detector won the third-place award at the NanoNexus2007 conference held last month at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More

The last of a series of Vanderbilt University lectures dealing with the nature of consciousness and how it affects our views of religion, science, and philosophy has been moved to accommodate the overflow crowds that attended the first two. Read More

Dyer Observatory is offering two opportunities this summer for teachers of fifth to twelfth grade to attend professional development workshops about astronomy. Workshops will be held June 18-22 and July 9-13 at the observatory. Read More

If you've ever wondered about the ultimate fate of the universe, Lawrence Krauss and Robert Scherrer have some good news...sort of. Read More

A man with no prior history of sexual misconduct was caught trying to molest a child. A brain scan found that he had a large tumor pressing on his right frontal cortex. When the tumor was removed, he no longer wanted to molest children. A suicidal man tried to kill himself with a crossbow. When the arrow went into his skull, the damage done to his prefrontal cortex reversed his anti-social tendencies. Read More

In the children's game "red light green light," winners are able to stop, and take off running again, more quickly than their comrades. New research reveals that a similar race goes on in our brains, with impulse control being the big winner. Read More

Global warming activist Laurie David and Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow will come to Vanderbilt University Wednesday, April 18, for a campus-only event as part of their Stop Global Warming College Tour. Read More

Charles F. Bolden Jr., former NASA astronaut and retired major general with the U.S. Marine Corps, will share his experiences Friday, April 20, at 1 p.m. at Vanderbilt University's Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, today recognized Vanderbilt University's Exploration Web site as an official honoree, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. The online research magazine is produced by Vanderbilt's Office of Science & Research Communications. Read More

Vanderbilt engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations performing low-resolution sampling by including car-mounted sensors that measure, process and report emission levels. Read More

School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read More

Three Vanderbilt University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More

Watch video of DNA expert Sean Carroll delivering the final lecture in the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series, "Evolutionary Developmental Biology." Read More

A new Vanderbilt University study has identified a chemical signal that plays a critical role in forming the heart, which could lead to new strategies to combat congenital heart defects. Read More

In the continuing battles between creationists and evolutionists, DNA expert Sean Carroll is strengthening the case that evolution is a natural law, as unassailable as the theory of gravity. Carroll will speak Thursday, March 29, at Ingram Hall on the Vanderbilt University campus. Read More

An assistant professor of physics at Vanderbilt University has won a $45,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More

Nobel laureate Jerome Friedman will describe the long and controversial debate about quarks — the smaller particles that make up protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus — during the annual Francis G. Slack Lecture on Friday, March 16. Read More

The nature of consciousness in humans and animals and its effect on how we view religion, science and philosophy will be tackled during three lectures at Vanderbilt University by prominent researcher Christof Koch. Read More

Parents wanting to expand their children‘s horizons this summer through a variety of programs — ranging from sports to art, music and academics — simply need to click onto the Vanderbilt Web site for a comprehensive listing. Read More

Faculty from Vanderbilt University and South Africa‘s University of Cape Town (UCT) will meet March 4-7 in Cape Town to discuss how they can work together to recruit and train more black astronomers in South Africa. Read More