Research
Five Vanderbilt faculty elected as 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellows
Jan. 30, 2023—Five Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center faculty members were elected 2022 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Vanderbilt works to help rural Tennessee county solve cancer outbreak mystery
Jan. 26, 2023—Growing worries among Grundy County, Tennessee, residents about cancer outbreaks within families, churches and neighborhoods have propelled a community partnership drawing on Vanderbilt University’s strengths to develop environmental and health self-as...
Research Snapshot: Tonga volcanic eruption creates foundational knowledge, portends short-term climate effects
Jan. 22, 2023—A submarine volcanic eruption in the Kingdom of Tonga sheds light on volcanic behavior and new ways to understand the impact of volcanoes on climate. Est. reading time: 2.5 mins.
New technique unlocks ancient history of climate and wildfires recorded in California cave rocks
Jan. 19, 2023—Data gained could help with fire activity predictions and environmental planning NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newly developed technique is revealing how prehistoric climate change shaped fire activity in California. The new data suggest that increased climate whiplash—change between extreme wetness and dryness—occurred at the same time as increases in fire activity in the region. Recent...
Renã Robinson receives National Institutes of Health grant for faculty success program to promote equity in science
Jan. 17, 2023—Renã Robinson, Dorothy Wingfield Phillips Chancellor’s Faculty Fellow and professor of chemistry, received $2.04 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to start a program that will help underrepresented minority faculty further their...
Lars Plate wins Scialog Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and USDA
Jan. 16, 2023—For his work on zoonotic threat mitigation, Lars Plate was awarded $50,000 from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
STEM role models inspire future scientists through storytelling
Jan. 5, 2023—A group of Vanderbilt students with diverse majors joined their creative forces for an immersive writing challenge: Take sophisticated science, technology, engineering and math topics and make them compelling for fourth graders. How did they do it? Thr...
Allison Schachter wins Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies
Dec. 14, 2022—Allison Schachter, associate professor of Jewish studies and English, was awarded the Fenia and Yaakov Leviant Memorial Prize in Yiddish Studies from the Modern Language Association of America.
Three A&S chemists to research therapeutics, fuel conversion, and enzyme design with NIH MIRA grants
Dec. 12, 2022—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...
VU graduate student examines Aspergillus genus virulence as part of multi-university study
Dec. 6, 2022—Annie Hatmaker, along with a team of researchers including her adviser, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Biological Sciences Antonis Rokas, recently published a study identifying the differences in virulence among Aspergillus species, a common human-p...