The Effects of Climate Change Being Felt in Nashville Blake Catlett | February 7, 2023 Climate change is an increasingly worrying issue affecting the world’s...
A Genetic Cause of Alzheimer’s? How Research at Vanderbilt May Help a Superhero
A Genetic Cause of Alzheimer’s? How Research at Vanderbilt May Help a Superhero Eric Sha | February 1, 2023 Many of us know a family...
Our Biological Clocks’ Battle against Real Clocks
Our Biological Clocks’ Battle against Real Clocks Isabella Bautista | January 25, 2023 Pictured here are Lisa Monteggia, Ph.D.; Carl Johnson, Ph.D.; Beth Malow, M.D.;...
AlphaFold: A new world of protein structure
AlphaFold: A new world of protein structure Tiffany Zhou | January 23, 2023 How do proteins fold into their correct conformation? According to Levinthal’s paradox,...
Microbial Pathogenesis and the Journey from Student to PI: A Conversation with D...
Tiffany Zhou | December 7, 2022 As the saying goes, “If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.”...
Healing a Wound by Suppressing It?
Bryan Han | December 2, 2022 How the body sometimes works too hard for its own good One trait that we humans possess that many...
One-Size-Fits-One: How Personalized Learning Unlocks Student Potential
One-Size-Fits-One: How Personalized Learning Unlocks Student Potential Vienna Parnell | February 5, 2023 In an instrumented classroom of the Enyedy Lab in the Vanderbilt Sony...
AlphaFold: A new world of protein structure
AlphaFold: A new world of protein structure Tiffany Zhou | January 23, 2023 How do proteins fold into their correct conformation? According to Levinthal’s paradox,...
From Smart Irrigation to Design Competitions: The State of Sustainability Tech a...
Trevor Jones | December 15, 2022 You may have seen an email recently about Vanderbilt being ranked a “top green college” by the Princeton Review....
How are you, actually?: Using AI algorithms for facial emotion recognition
Vienna Parnell | December 1, 2022 Hopefully it comes to the surprise of no one that people lie on a regular basis without others’ knowledge,...
Manifolds: The Mathematical Basis for Our World
Isabella Bautista | November 13, 2022 Imagine you are standing on the surface of a geometrical sphere, much like we do in real life on the...
Creating With a “Click”
What if you could snap molecular building blocks together like Lego to create more complicated molecules? Click chemistry does just that. Heena Cho | December...
Vanderbilt Chemistry Department Welcomes Dr. Alexander Schuppe and Schuppe Lab
Blake Catlett | November 2, 2022 A new academic year has come, and Vanderbilt’s chemistry department has welcomed a new faculty member: Assistant Professor Dr....
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...
Student Spotlight: Postpartum Depression Research with Eileen Yu
Student Spotlight: Postpartum Depression Research with Eileen Yu Ellie McCluey | January 26, 2023 For those who can get pregnant, pregnancy is associated with major...
Doctoral Candidate Nicolette Granata and the Social Cognition Lab
Morgan Lindstead | November 28, 2022 Nicolette Granata is currently a Ph.D. candidate working in the Social Cognition Lab at Vanderbilt University. Your lab researches...
Music Is Medicine: The Effects of Music Therapy on Cognition
Isabella Bautista | November 1, 2022 For the young, the old, and those in between, there is real scientific truth to the saying “Music is...
Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Zain Tariq | October 23, 2022 Why do criminals commit crimes? How does a jury choose an appropriate punishment? How can we decide whether to...
Professor Spotlight: A Q&A with Dr. Ashleigh Maxcey
Recognition-Induced Forgetting and Dr. Maxcey Stuti Jain | October 14, 2022 Your lab focuses on this phenomenon called recognition-induced forgetting. What is that? Recognition induced...
The Effects of Climate Change Being Felt in Nashville
The Effects of Climate Change Being Felt in Nashville Blake Catlett | February 7, 2023 Climate change is an increasingly worrying issue affecting the world’s...
A Terrible Thing to Waste
A Terrible Thing to Waste Bryce Emanuel | January 23, 2022 Every neighborhood claims to be a safe environment for its residents. But what evidence...
Rare Binary Star System Offers a New Look into the Cosmos
Stuti Jain | November 18, 2022 The origin of the universe has baffled astronomers, physicists and evolutionary scientists for decades. Despite the newest slew of stunning...
Shopping for Environmental Benefits: Using Carbon Capture Technology to Create C...
Sarah Platkin | November 2, 2022 Many college students, including us here at Vanderbilt University, feed into the fast fashion industry, whether we know it...
Global Health Uncovered: The Pakistani Health Crisis after the Flood
Kanksha Buch | October 21, 2022 As a severe drought devastated the agriculture of numerous Pakistani provinces, locals desperately awaited the onset of the monsoon...
Lack of rural physicians: battle with expanding health access in rural areas
Lack of rural physicians: battle with expanding health access in rural areas Sarah Platkin | January 27, 2023 About 20 percent of Americans live in...
The First Step in a Long Journey: The Importance of Early STEM Exposure
Erica Guelfi | Dec 15, 2022 For many students, STEM is a lifelong journey, often one that starts early in life. Children who are exposed...
STEM Advice: Why Your Mental Health is Important
Active Minds hosts a STEM x Mental Health Panel with Dr. Todd and Dr. Starko Marlo Armstrong | November 29, 2022 On October 25, Vanderbilt’s...
Vanderbilt University Receives Intense Backlash for Transgender Health Clinic
Sarah Platkin | November 10, 2022 TW: Mentions of Transphobia On August 24, 2022, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) opened up a transgender health clinic....
Lying with Science
Bryan Han | October 19, 2022 We like to think that we are correct when it comes to science. Whether it is some new dieting...
An Inside Look at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital
An Inside Look at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Rohan Rashingkar | February 5, 2023 Have you ever walked by the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital and wondered what...
The Soft Side of Robotics
The Soft Side of Robotics Claudia Shi | January 31, 2023 Inspired by cilia, the Dong lab partially focuses on developing soft miniature devices in...
The Nanomachine Revolution
Zain Tariq | December 6, 2022 When we are asked to imagine the engineering marvels of the future, our minds tend to wander towards images...
Make Your Ideas Come To Life With 3D Printing
Rohan Rashingkar | November 16, 2022 Have you ever wanted to transform an idea into a physical reality—but did not have a simple and efficient...
Surgeons Behind the Scene: VISE Undergraduate Research
Jesse D’Almeida. (2022). Prostate Robot. Claudia Shi | November 4, 2022 With the aid of robotics in medicine, surgeons are potentially able to perform surgeries...
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,...
