Research
Kalousová, Bolton receive Alzheimer’s Association awards
Apr. 20, 2022—Lucie Kalousová, assistant professor of medicine, health and society and of sociology, has received a two-year New to the Field Award of $114,000 from the Alzheimer’s Association. Corey Bolton, a postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt Memory and Alzheim...
New Study: Black women face higher maternal mortality rates than previously determined
Apr. 17, 2022—By: Celeste Malone The effects of racism and sexism lead to higher maternal mortality rates among Black women in the U.S. than previously realized, according to new research from Associate Professor of Sociology and Law Evelyn J. Patterson at Vanderbil...
Vanderbilt Unity Project launches “Unity Index” showing quarterly snapshot on Americans’ faith and trust in democracy
Apr. 11, 2022—A new index designed by researchers at Vanderbilt University shows a steady erosion of trust in American political institutions over the past 40 years, with it hitting its lowest point in 2017 after racial unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia.Launched b...
Graduate student Steenwyk receives prestigious 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Award
Mar. 21, 2022—Jacob Steenwyk, a sixth-year doctoral student studying biology in the Rokas Lab, is a recipient of the 2022 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award presented by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is the second Vanderbilt student ever to ...
NEA research grant supports study of the role of arts internships in graduates’ career opportunities
Mar. 13, 2022—Researchers at Vanderbilt and Arizona State University recently won a two-year, $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts research grant to support a mixed-methods study on the prevalence of arts internships and their role in students’ transition from co...
Wikswo and VIIBRE team on track to build third-generation ‘self-driving lab’ with $1M from National Science Foundation
Mar. 3, 2022—Vanderbilt and Chalmers University of Technology are teaming up to build a self-driving biological laboratory that uses microfluidics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a third-generation robot scientist that designs and conducts t...
Vanderbilt astronomers discover exceedingly rare star
Feb. 10, 2022—A team of astronomers has made the discovery of a lifetime that will help answer burning questions on the evolution of stars. The group is led by Keivan Stassun, Evolutionary Studies Initiative member and Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
Vanderbilt-led researchers show that generalist species are ‘jack of all trades and masters of all’
Feb. 8, 2022—Over the past decade, Larisa DeSantis, paleontologist and associate professor of biological sciences, has worked with a team of former Vanderbilt undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and experts from across the globe to show how s...
Vanderbilt wins renewal of Beckman Scholars Program in chemistry and biological sciences
Feb. 8, 2022—Vanderbilt University is one of 14 institutions awarded the 2022 Beckman Scholars Program from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, receiving $146,000 to renew Vanderbilt’s program through 2025. The award will support a total of six Beckman Scholar...
Patel Lab earns new grant to study evolutionary trade-offs between reproduction and aging
Feb. 3, 2022—Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences Maulik Patel and his lab have received a Pilot Research Grant from the Vanderbilt Evolutionary Studies Initiative to study reproduction and aging.