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MARC, START and Beckman Scholars share summer research at symposium
Aug. 28, 2023—Vanderbilt undergraduate students presented their summer research projects at the MARC/START/Beckman Summer Symposium earlier this month, sharing research on wide-ranging topics, including how exposure therapy might help people overcome fear of snakes, the relationship between social anxiety and memory, and how cocaine can affect male and female brains differently. To read more, click here!
Lauren Jackson named 2023 Chancellor Faculty Fellows
Jun. 7, 2023—Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2023 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise. Congratulations to Dr. Jackson! To read more click here
Lauren Jackson has been featured for two years in a row by NIH !
Jan. 11, 2023—Dr. Jackson participated in a Q&A with science writer Abbey Bigler which was featured in the Biomedical Beat Blog for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for the second year in a row! You can read Dr. Jackson’s interview regarding her career and research here!
Three A&S chemists to research therapeutics, fuel conversion, and enzyme design with NIH MIRA grants
Jan. 6, 2023—College of Arts and Science faculty members Nathan Schley, Allison Walker, and John Yang have each been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health to continue their groundbreaking chemistry research. Known as the Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA), these grants provide both new and established researchers of general medical sciences with more than $1.9...