Science

The monuments, sculptures, jades, and other treasures recovered by the Vanderbilt University and National Geographic Cancuen Archaeological Project are now on exhibit in a museum tour in Europe. Read More

Thirty-one assassinated and dismembered Maya nobles have been found by a team of Guatemalan and American archaeologists in a sacred cistern at the entrance to the sprawling royal palace in the ruins of the ancient city of CancuÈn, capital of one of the richest kingdoms of the Classic Maya civilization (circa A.D. 300-900), located in the PetÈn rain forest of Guatemala. The National Geographic Society, Vanderbilt University and the Ministry of Culture of Guatemala announced the gruesome discovery, which is believed to record a critical moment at the beginning of the mysterious collapse of this great ancient civilization. Read More

Vanderbilt anthropologist Tom Dillehay has spent the past 30 years uncovering the ancient history of Chile and other South American countries, in the process changing our understanding of how and when humans first came to the Americas. His contributions to Chilean culture were recognized this fall by Chile's President Ricardo Lagos with an announcement that his work will be used to symbolize Chile's Sello Bicentenario, or bicentennial, which the nation will celebrate in 2010. Read More

The stars are now much closer for Vanderbilt and Tennessee State University studentsóso close, in fact, that they don't even have to leave their dorm rooms to study them. A new robotic telescope, made possible with funds from NASA and a partnership between TSU and Vanderbilt's Dyer Observatory, will celebrate its "first light" at its Dyer Observatory home at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 7. Read More

The Dan Marino Foundation has pledged $1.2 million over three years to establish the Marino Autism Research Institute at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center's Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders and the University of Miami Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is recruiting families of children with and without autism to participate in a study of the relationship between sleep patterns and behavior in children with autism. Read More

Take an LED that produces intense, blue light. Coat it with a thin layer of special microscopic beads called quantum dots. And you have what could become the successor to the venerable light bulb. Read More

Thomas R. Harris, Vanderbilt chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department and Orrin H. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has received a distinguished service award from the major scientific and professional society in the field of biomedical engineering. Read More

The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development has won a $2.5 million, five-year grant and designation as a University Center for Excellence on Developmental Disabilities Education, Research and Service from the federal Administration on Developmental Disabilities. The center will use the funds to expand training and outreach and to improve disability services to poor and underserved populations across Tennessee. Read More

Vanderbilt University ranks 24th in the value of federal research grants awarded to faculty members, according to the National Science Foundation. Read More

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Larry R. Churchill, co-director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will examine the factors that must be addressed as America confronts the Medicare crisis in the 21st century during a lecture Sept. 13 at Flynn Auditorium in the Vanderbilt Law School. Read More

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee and Fisk University President Hazel O‘Leary will lead a celebration Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. of the two universities‘ Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program partnership to increase the number of minority students pursuing their doctoral degrees in physics, astronomy and the biomedical sciences. Both university leaders will speak, and students who are participating in the partnership will be available for interviews. The event will feature a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Read More

Vanderbilt University Chancellor Gordon Gee and Fisk University President Hazel O'Leary will lead a celebration Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. of the two universities' Masters-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program partnership to increase the number of minority students pursuing their doctoral degrees in physics, astronomy and the biomedical sciences. Both university leaders will speak, and students who are participating in the partnership will be available for interviews. The event will feature a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Read More

A quirky or socially awkward approach to life might be the key to becoming a great artist, composer or inventor. Read More

Vanderbilt experts are available to discuss a variety of issues related to the Hurricane Katrina disaster, including emergency response planning, police response, looting, economic impact, impact on universities, mass casualties, infectious disease and medical problems facing children. Read More

If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault. New research indicates that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards. Read More

Vanderbilt University has raced up the list of national research-spending rankings, according to a July report from the National Science Foundation on research and development expenditures. The university advanced nine places in the agency‘s rankings to 30th, placing it between Emory University, which ranked 29th, and the California Institute of Technology, which ranked 31st. The rankings are based on the university‘s federal research expenditures in fiscal year 2003. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers are two of the authors of a research study released today that revealed seafood from the area close to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska currently is not threatened by radioactive materials resulting from underground nuclear tests carried out at Amchitka Island between 1965 and 1971. Read More

An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone at a different location. Read More

Unlike the spectacular movie version, real-life sun storms can‘t turn ordinary astronauts into the Fantastic Four. But they can and occasionally do incapacitate expensive and vitally important space systems, like satellites and spacecraft. Read More