Research
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...
Vanderbilt University awarded $1.1M as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s IE3 Initiative
Nov. 29, 2022—Vanderbilt University was awarded a grant by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Inclusive Excellence Community to improve outcomes and persistence in STEM among underrepresented students.
Spraggins, Caprioli win $13.6M from NIH to create “atlases” of the brain, kidney and eye
Nov. 17, 2022—Researchers in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine have received three grants totaling $13.6 million from the National Institutes of Health to develop molecular “atlases” of the brain, kidney, eye and other tissues.
A Path Forward: Amid an unprecedented mental health crisis, Vanderbilt research provides new insights, possible solutions
Nov. 6, 2022—Psychologists and psychiatrists have sometimes struggled to keep up with the multiplying mental health challenges posed by the pandemic and other recent events, but through studies and interventions, Vanderbilt faculty members are providing new insight...