This change in policy demonstrates how leaders have to balance the public’s desire to return to normalcy (e.g. more students in-person) with the ever-present dangers...
mRNA vaccines: The Savior to Future Pandemics?
Among the three vaccine providers, both Pfizer and Moderna utilized a brand new form of technology known as mRNA vaccines, while J&J opted to develop...
Cellular Agriculture: The Future of Humane Protein?
But here’s some food for thought: what if instead of raising an entire animal, we grew only the parts meant for consumption?
A 2020 Sick Day: COVID-19, the Flu, or the Common Cold?
So, what are the differences between influenza, COVID-19, and the seasonal Common Cold? What are the similarities?
Explaining CRISPR: The Genetic Scissors that Won the Nobel Prize
While modifying the genes within cells used to be a difficult, time-intensive task, the CRISPR genetic scissors make it possible to change the DNA of...
The Sunshine Vitamin
If there was a clear way to improve health with no medical costs, would you take it? Using vitamin D, through sunlight, the human body...
Amazon is Spying on its Workers with AI
The majority of Americans use Amazon daily, despite extensive reports of employee mistreatment. But with its implementation of pervasive AI technology among employees, has Amazon...
Fighting Online Propaganda with Language Processing
A rising percentage of Americans now obtain their news online through news outlets and social media. This means that efficient as it is to inform...
Diffbot AI Knows Everything on the Internet
Is it possible to engineer a program to remember the whole internet? That’s exactly what the startup Diffbot is trying to achieve. Diffbot is a...
The Rise of Designer Drugs
In the world of big pharma, the idea of designer drugs can have a highly negative connotation, and this family of narcotics is shaping to...
Eureka!
Creativity, a culturally fluid concept, is abstract and is reinforced by behaviors such as what we categorize as creative. The next logical question is: What...
Brain Fog: Myth or Symptom You Have
Amongst the lingering side effects of Covid-19, multiple patients have reported feeling fuzzy or foggy in thinking, now termed “brain fog.” In past non-pandemic years,...
Building your most effective (and scientific) sleep schedule
We aim to dive deep into the body during sleep and understand how quintessential parts of the college lifestyle could have an impact on achieving...
Ketamine: An Unlikely Candidate for Mental Health Treatment
After society gradually begins to return to “normal” and the most pertinent threats of this virus are neutralized, there will likely be many individuals seeking...
Habitable Exoplanets: A Possible Escape Route?
Over 4000 unique exoplanets - planets that orbit a star outside our solar system - have been discovered in the Milky Way galaxy, but the...
What impact does climate change have on the California fires?
With the increasing number and frequency of these natural calamities, we’re faced with two critical questions: how does climate change impact these catastrophes and how...
Climate Change, Zoonosis, and Epidemic outbreaks: Disease Outbreaks as the New N...
Zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases that exist naturally in an animal population and mutate to become viable in the human population upon close contact, have been...
The Loosening of COVID-19 Restrictions
This change in policy demonstrates how leaders have to balance the public’s desire to return to normalcy (e.g. more students in-person) with the ever-present dangers...
Global Warming and Snowstorm Uri
A few weeks ago, winter storm Uri brought four inches of snow and a whole week of snow flurries and freezing temperatures to campus.
My 24-hour Experience with Vanderbilt’s Isolation Protocols
It’s widely known that if a student living on-campus tested positive for the virus, they will be moved to a specially designated quarantine dorm. Other...
Digital COVID Passports Are Coming Soon
While many people do have pictures of their COVID-19 vaccination cards on their phones just in case, there has been an alarming rise of the...
The NFT Craze
With the new era of technology increasingly bleeding into every dimension of our lives, it has created a new digital collectible frenzy for Non-fungible tokens,...
“RIP Twitter” and the Super Follows
The world is slowly turning into a subscription-based economy. Pay $6.99 a month for Disney+, $8.99 for Netflix, $12.99 for Amazon Prime – it all...
Gait Sensing Smartphone Technology Shows Promise in Reducing Alcohol-Related Inc...
Fortunately, scientists are working on a new way to determine intoxication: by looking at gait, or the way you walk.
The WOMEN Behind Cutting-Edge Gene Technology
In the midst of Women’s History Month, we thought it only fitting to highlight a few of the female pioneers who have advanced our world...
Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancers: A Conversation with Dr. Michael John Kor...
To better understand the future of immunotherapy treatment, we sat down with immunologist Dr. Michael John Korrer. He works in Dr. Young Kim’s lab at...
Amplifying Black Voices: STEM Professional Renã Robinson, College of Arts and S...
“Be Humble, Be Bold and Be You." According to renowned analytical chemistry scientist Dr. Reña Robinson, these are the keys to succeeding and thriving in...
Amplifying Black Voices: STEM Professional Dean Mitchell, School of Engineering
Dean Burgess has been a unique and talented trailblazer in the field of engineering education since coming to Vanderbilt in 2002 as a result of...
Antivirals and Professional Perspectives from the Pandemic: A Conversation with ...
Written by Minna Apostolova Dr. Lars Plate is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biological Sciences. Teaching classes during the pandemic is a significant challenge,...
