College of Arts and Science
The College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University is a highly selective liberal arts college at the heart of a major research university. It seeks to attract a diverse student body of high promise and ability from throughout the United States and the international community. Its mission is to engage in significant and innovative research, scholarship, and creative expression in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, to offer distinguished, well-taught programs of undergraduate and graduate education in the liberal arts and sciences, and to foster service to society overall.
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301 Kirkland Hall Nashville, TN 37240 |
Phone: | 615-322-2851 |
Fax: | 615-343-8702 |
Email: | cas@vanderbilt.edu |
Website: | College of Arts & Science |
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Recent Submissions
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(2023-01-04)The study of circadian rhythms in bacteria was transformed by studies of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus. However, in a number of respects S. elongatus is atypical, and while those unusual characteristics were ...
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(Nanophotonics, 2023-01-19)A growing class of nonlinear materials employ the localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) of nanoparticles to enhance harmonic generation. Material systems containing harmonically coupled metallic and semiconductor ...
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(Ps-political Science & Politics, 2023-01)Online surveys of public opinion are less expensive and faster to administer than other surveys. However, nonprobability online samples diverge from the gold standard of probabilistic sampling. Although scholars have ...
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(PNAS, 2023)Neurons in the early stages of processing sensory information suffer transneuronal atrophy when deprived of their activating inputs. For over 40 years, members of our laboratory have studied the reorganization of somatosensory ...
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(Astronomical Journal, 2023-02-01)We present high-precision radial velocities (RVs) from the HARPS-N spectrograph for HD79210 and HD79211, two M0V members of a gravitationally-bound binary system. We detect a planet candidate with a period of 24.421(-0.0 ...
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(Genome Research, 2022-10)There is increasing appreciation that, in addition to being shaped by an individual's genotype and environment, most complex traits are also determined by poorly understood interactions between these two factors. So-called ...
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(Ebiomedicine, 2022-12)Background Brugada syndrome (BrS) is a severe inherited arrhythmia syndrome that can be unmasked by fever.Methods A multicentre clinical analysis was performed in 261 patients diagnosed with fever-induced BrS, including ...
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(Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2022-12-30)BackgroundThough deep brain stimulation (DBS) shows increasing potential in treatment-resistant depression (TRD), the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we investigated functional and structural connectivities ...
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(Diabetes, 2022-07)Mitochondrial glucose metabolism is essential for stimulated insulin release from pancreatic beta-cells. Whether mitofusin gene expression, and hence, mitochondrial network integrity, is important for glucose or incretin ...
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(Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution, 2022-12-20)Studies of Rancho La Brea predators have yielded disparate dietary interpretations when analyzing bone collagen vs. enamel carbonate-requiring a better understanding of the relationship between stable carbon isotopes in ...
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(Astronomical Journal, 2022-12-19)Examination of emission lines in high-velocity-resolution optical spectra of the Orion Nebula confirms that the velocity component on the red wing of the main ionization front emission line is due to backscattering in the ...
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(Viruses-basel, 2022-12-15)The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a multicellular microenvironment that plays an important role in regulating bidirectional transport to and from the central nervous system (CNS). Infections by many acutely infectious viruses ...
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(The Astrophysical Journal, 2022-12-20)We report the discovery of 2M1222-57 as a low-mass, pre-main-sequence (PMS) eclipsing binary (EB) in the Lower Centaurus Crux (LCC) association for which, using Gaia parallaxes and proper motions with a neural net age ...
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(Insects, 2022-11-28)Simple Summary Mosquitoes transmit disease, and over the past century, mosquito control has mostly relied on chemical insecticides that target the adult life stage. We review methods of mosquito control and argue that ...
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(Wiley, 2021-12-11)We studied if clinicians could gain sufficient working knowledge of a computer-assisted diagnostic decision support system (DDSS) (SimulConsult), to make differential diagnoses (DDx) of genetic disorders. We hypothesized ...
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Dark Matter benchmark models for early LHC Run-2 Searches: Report of the ATLAS/CMS Dark Matter Forum (Physics of the Dark Universe, 2020-01)This document is the final report of the ATLAS-CMS Dark Matter Forum, a forum organized by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations with the participation of experts on theories of Dark Matter, to select a minimal basis set of ...
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(2020)In 2020, a young brickmaker (Kelsea Best) provides an update to B. K. Forscher's 1963 vision of the state of the scientific endeavor as a brickyard. As the brickyard becomes ever more chaotic, this essay calls on young ...
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(2020)The authors of this essay (David Furbish, Douglas Jerolmack and Rachel Glade) offer an updated view of the state of affairs in the brickyard described in B. K. Forscher’s popular 1963 allegorical letter to Science, “Chaos ...
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(Frontiers in Neurology, 2020-02-18)Background and Objective: The first pass effect (FPE; achieving complete recanalization with a single thrombectomy device pass) has been shown to be associated with higher rates of good clinical outcomes in patients with ...
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(Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2019-07)Irritability is garnering increasing attention in psychiatric research as a transdiagnostic marker of both internalizing and externalizing disorders. These disorders often emerge during adolescence, highlighting the need ...