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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ engineering professor Gautam Biswas partnered with the School of Nursing to bring eye tracking technology and machine learning algorithms into education and training environments.

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researchers have developed a new method to analyze mutations in blood stem cells that can trigger explosive, clonal expansions of abnormal cells.

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ School of Nursing has been approved for a $250,000 award that will support identifying and disseminating strategies for overcoming barriers to patient- and family-centered comparative effectiveness research with patients who are critically ill and hospitalized in an intensive care unit setting.

Growing worries among Grundy County, Tennessee, residents about cancer outbreaks within families, churches and neighborhoods have propelled a community partnership drawing on ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s strengths to develop environmental and health self-assessment tools. Read More

Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, has been appointed to the National Science Board by President Joe Biden. Read More

The Wond'ry, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Innovation Center, will host the first Mid-South Innovation Summit for innovators, students, founders, government officials, investors and community and ecosystem partners across the entire Midsouth region. The event will be on Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Loews ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Hotel and is free and open to the public. Read More

Mikail Rubinov has been awarded $600,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop new computational methods for analysis of large-scale brain activity data.

With a newly developed technique, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ professor Jessica Oster is revealing how prehistoric climate change shaped fire activity in California.

New research from Jessica Kennedy explores the relationship between deception in negotiations and negotiators’ satisfaction with their deals.

A submarine volcanic eruption in the Kingdom of Tonga sheds light on volcanic behavior and new ways to understand the impact of volcanoes on climate. Est. reading time: 2.5 mins. Read More

An international consortium co-led by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Rubén Martínez-Barricarte has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia. 

Neil Osheroff and his lab provide foundational research for new Urinary Tract Infection antibiotic. UTIs affect half of all women. Read More

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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ School of Nursing has received a $3 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to create a training program, standardized set of competencies and certification for community health workers in Tennessee.

The laboratories of Brian Bachmann and Jonathan Irish have developed a method to discover new small molecules that may kill cancer cells by working through the body’s immune system. Read More

For his work on zoonotic threat mitigation, Lars Plate was awarded $50,000 from the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Corporation for Science Advancement and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College Professor Mary Louise Hemmeter has received an $11.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education to expand the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Competence in pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms in diverse districts across the country. Read More

A company co-founded by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ mechanical engineering professor Robert J. Webster III has received a breakthrough device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that could open the door for new diagnostic and therapeutic applications of flexible endoscopy.

Nashville Biosciences LLC and Illumina Inc. today announced an agreement with Amgen to whole-genome sequence approximately 35,000 DNA samples.

By determining how proteins in different areas of the eye’s lens change over time, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researchers have learned more about how they could contribute to the mysterious progression of cataracts—a clouding of the lens that affects more than 65 million people worldwide each year.   Read More