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15 years of the Beckman Scholars Program: Providing unparalleled undergrad research opportunities

Apr. 2, 2024—The highly selective Beckman Scholars Program is celebrating 15 years of partnership with the College of Arts and Science. Over the years, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation has provided more than $543,000 in support of 23 undergraduate Beckman Scholars at Vanderbilt who engage in unique, hands-on, mentored research. The Beckman Scholars Program (BSP) supports...

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McLean awarded Herty Medal for chemistry achievements, distinguished service

Mar. 25, 2024—John A. McLean, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry and dean of graduate education and research in the College of Arts and Science, has been named the winner of this year’s Charles H. Herty Medal by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. Th...

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McLean awarded Herty Medal for chemistry achievements, distinguished service

Mar. 25, 2024—John A. McLean, Stevenson Professor of Chemistry and dean of graduate education and research in the College of Arts and Science, has been named the winner of this year’s Charles H. Herty Medal by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes outstanding work and service by a chemist in the Southeast....

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Two A&S psychology faculty receive prestigious awards in vision sciences

Mar. 22, 2024—Two leading scholars in the College of Arts and Science Department of Psychology were recognized by the Vision Sciences Society, the leading international society for vision science research. Randolph Blake, Centennial Professor of Psychology, won the 2024 Ken Nakayama Medal for Excellence in Vision Science Award for lasting, high-impact contributions to vision science. Isabel Gauthier,...

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Q&A: Illuminating a critical step in initiating DNA replication in eukaryotes

Mar. 14, 2024—Brandt Eichman and Walter Chazin, professors of biochemistry, have worked together to provide a better understanding of how exactly DNA replication is initiated in eukaryotes. Using Vanderbilt’s state-of-the-art instrumentation in the Center for Struct...

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Breaking the Mold: Kyle David’s research challenges ecological norms in yeast communities

Mar. 6, 2024—Kyle David, an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Rokas lab, and co-authors published a new paper, “Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns” in the high-impact journal PNAS. This paper, which looks at the ecology of 186 species o...

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Breaking the mold: postdoctoral fellow’s research challenges ecological norms in yeast communities

Mar. 4, 2024—Kyle David, an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Rokas lab, and co-authors published a new paper, 'Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns' in the high-impact journal . This paper, which looks at the ecology of 186 species of ye...

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Breaking the mold: postdoctoral fellow’s research challenges ecological norms in yeast communities

Mar. 4, 2024—Kyle David, an NSF postdoctoral fellow in the Rokas lab, and co-authors published a new paper, 'Saccharomycotina yeasts defy longstanding macroecological patterns' in the high-impact journal . This paper, which looks at the ecology of 186 species of ye...

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Center for Democracy and Technology names two VU Faculty to 2024-2026 fellows program

Feb. 29, 2024—Jenny Davis, professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Science, and Pamela Wisniewski, associate professor in human-computer interaction and Flowers Faculty Fellow in the School of Engineering, join 22 other distinguished scholars from a wide a...

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Voluntary household actions contribute 40% of cumulative emissions reductions under the IIJA and IRA

Feb. 28, 2024—Working across multiple disciplines, Vanderbilt researchers found that a relatively small proportion of funds from two recent significant pieces of environmental law – the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) of 2021 and Inflation Reduction Ac...

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