Research
Vanderbilt postdoctoral fellows recognized at 2025 Spring Postdoc Awards Ceremony
Jun. 16, 2025—The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, in partnership with the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association, announced the 2025 award winners at the Spring Postdoc Awards Ceremony on May 21. The event highlighted the vital contributions that postdocs make across v...
Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes
Jun. 11, 2025—While we know that intermediate-mass black holes should exist, little is known about their origins or characteristics—they are considered the rare “missing links” in black hole evolution. However, four new studies have shed new light on the mystery. Th...
A Conservative Defense: Downstream NFLs resist evolutionary blitzes
Jun. 11, 2025—Danial Asgari, a postdoctoral researcher in the Tate Lab, and Ann Tate, associate professor of Biological Sciences, recently published a study in Molecular Biology and Evolution titled “How the Structure of Signaling Regulation Evolves: Insights from a...
New research offers promise for treatment-resistant cystic fibrosis patients
Jun. 11, 2025—A recent study from the labs of Lars Plate and Jens Meiler, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, analyzed both selectively responsive and poorly responsive variants of cystic fibrosis and rev...
Vanderbilt’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative honored with 2025 Friend of Darwin Award
Jun. 9, 2025—The National Center for Science Education has named Vanderbilt University’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative as one of its 2025 recipients of the prestigious Friend of Darwin award. This national honor recognizes ESI’s outstanding contributions to advan...
Vanderbilt announces Innovation Catalyst Fund awardees for February 2025 cycle
Jun. 9, 2025—Vanderbilt has announced eleven awardees in the latest round of its Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative that supports translational research that has promising commercial potential.
The student becomes the teacher: one undergraduate’s journey in environmental protection
Jun. 3, 2025—Growing up, Devan Wiley spent a lot of time in nature. As part of an active family that encouraged outdoor adventures, Wiley developed a love for the natural world. But it wasn’t until college, when Wiley began to realize the full extent of the climate crisis, that they found themself drawn toward environmental protection. While...
Research roundup: 11 things we learned this year
May. 23, 2025—Illustrations by Liz Chagnon Faculty in the College of Arts and Science are pursuing groundbreaking research and discovery across a wide range of fields. They advance scientific progress, artistic expression, and a deeper understanding of the world around us—its past, present, and future. Here are a few things we’ve learned from our faculty this academic...
Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes
May. 23, 2025—In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the mass of the sun), supermassive black holes (millions to billions of times the mass of the sun), and intermediate-mass black holes with masses somewhere in between. While we know that intermediate-mass black holes should...
Looking back for the future
May. 17, 2025—Our past has something to say. 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Larisa DeSantis is ready to translate.