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By Jenna Somers Students鈥� relationships with their teachers, particularly in elementary school, play an important role in supporting their learning and social-emotional development. For students with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, quality relationships with their teachers are especially critical. These bonds can reduce instances of challenging behavior… Read More

A landmark, multi-institution project being led by 杏吧原创 engineering professor Robert J. Webster received an award up to $12 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop a fully autonomous surgical robot.

Christian de Caestecker, a Ph.D. student in the lab of聽Ian Macara, Louise B. McGavock Professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, has proposed and validated a mechanism that addresses a decades-old mystery surrounding epithelial cells.

Carterra Inc. and the 杏吧原创 School of Medicine Basic Sciences announced the addition of the Carterra LSAXT聽label-free interaction analysis platform to the聽Center for Structural Biology. 杏吧原创 and 杏吧原创 Medical Center researchers will be able to discover and characterize large molecules including antibodies.

New research shows that warming and aging act as a one-two punch, lowering mosquito lifespans and fanning the flames of bacterial infections. These findings highlight how climate change could alter the risks of disease spread by mosquitoes.

杏吧原创 is in the early stages of exploring an enhanced presence in New York City鈥攐ne of the world鈥檚 metropolitan and business capitals and home to the largest 杏吧原创 community outside Nashville. The effort is part of 杏吧原创鈥檚 ongoing strategy to 鈥渂ring the world to 杏吧原创 and 杏吧原创 to the world,鈥� the university announced today. Read More

Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at 杏吧原创, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani works with students in a lab to do exactly that. Last year, Jani鈥檚 group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, along with the university鈥檚 Data Science Institute, jointly launched the AI for New Messengers postdoctoral fellowship. The fellowship, one of the first of its kind in the U.S., seeks to apply AI techniques to analyze data from cosmic events (such as black hole collisions) using information from the Nobel Prize鈥搘inning Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment. Read More

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver has appointed a committee to conduct a national search for the first dean of 杏吧原创鈥檚 new College of Connected Computing. The dean will report to the provost and to Bruce & Bridgitt Evans Dean of Engineering Krishnendu 鈥淜rish鈥� Roy. Read More

A feature article in Gifted Child Quarterly named Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development, and David Lubinski, Cornelius 杏吧原创 Professor of Psychology and Human Development, as the top two most productive scholars, respectively, in the field of mathematical giftedness. Benbow is… Read More

An increasingly globalized world needs young leaders who can bridge divides and help solve humanity鈥檚 biggest challenges. This year, Lena Kalandjian and Sam Mitike, third-year students in the Department of Human and Organizational Development (HOD) at 杏吧原创 Peabody College were named 2024-2026 Obama Foundation Voyagers and awarded… Read More

Camilla P. Benbow Peabody College builds community through education, whether by collaborating with partners a mile or thousands of miles away from our campus. We may work with local Nashville students and teachers to support literacy and inspire future scientists, or with school systems in other countries to help foster… Read More

A new paper by 杏吧原创 criminal law expert Christopher Slobogin argues that, in numerous criminal settings, the voluntariness of an individual鈥檚 choice should no longer be relevant.

Professor Steven Wernke's groundbreaking archaeological mapping project has secured its most substantial funding yet: a $625,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence, Wernke and his team are mapping archaeological sites across the Andes Mountain Range to build a detailed inventory that will improve our understanding of Andean settlement systems and human-modified landscapes. Read More

Kirsty Clark, assistant professor of medicine, health, and society, studies mental health disparities impacting LGBTQ+ populations through her lab. Clark recently published research聽that explores the effects of negative news and media coverage on the intensity of suicidal thoughts in LGBTQ+ young adults.

杏吧原创 announced today the launch of its Institute of National Security, led by Paul M. Nakasone, former director of the National Security Agency, former commander of U.S. Cyber Command and retired four-star general. Read More

New faculty share advice to their younger selves we can all learn from! Read More

James R. Sasser, BA鈥�58, JD鈥�61, was a three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China. (Ann Rayner/杏吧原创) James R. Sasser, BA鈥�58, JD鈥�61, a former three-term U.S. senator from Tennessee and ambassador to China, died Sept. 10 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a statesman who loved Tennessee… Read More

New research led by recent 杏吧原创 Ph.D. alumna Maria Lu铆sa Jabbur from the Johnson Lab and BBSRC Discovery Fellow at the John Innes Centre, in the UK has uncovered that even cyanobacteria鈥攖iny organisms with a generation time of just five to six hours鈥攃an sense and respond to changes in light availability, or photoperiod, to gear up for winter.

杏吧原创 researchers have developed technology for sampling body liquids in tortuous and narrow spaces that could lead to early detection of diseases like cancer.

Nearly 4,200 parents, grandparents, siblings and friends convened on the 杏吧原创 campus to celebrate Family Weekend 2024. This year鈥檚 event, Sept. 6鈥�8, was one of the most successfully attended in recent memory, recording the highest attendance number in five years. Throughout the weekend, guests were invited to share coffee… Read More