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Fun Fact of the Week 1/23/23: Research confirms theory that gold originates from the collision of neutron stars
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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…
From Smart Irrigation to Design Competitions: The State of Sustainability Tech at Vandy
Trevor Jones | December 15, 2022 You may have seen an email recently about Vanderbilt being ranked a “top green college” by the Princeton Review.…
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…
The Wond’ry: An Incubator for Innovation
Ellie McCluey | December 8, 2022 What is the Wond’ry with Deanna Meador Often described as an “epicenter for innovation”, Vanderbilt’s Wond’ry is equipped with…
Microbial Pathogenesis and the Journey from Student to PI: A Conversation with Dr. Eric Skaar
Tiffany Zhou | December 7, 2022 As the saying goes, “If you cannot see where you are going, ask someone who has been there before.”…
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…
Fun Fact of the Week 12/5: Beyond X and Y: Scientists uncover a new mechanism of sex determination in mammals
Fiona Shan | December 5, 2022 Scientists often differentiate between male and female mammals based on their specific combinations of the sex chromosomes X and…
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…