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Danial Asgari, a postdoctoral researcher in the Tate Lab, and Ann Tate, associate professor of Biological Sciences, recently published a study in Molecular Biology and Evolution titled 鈥淗ow the Structure of Signaling Regulation Evolves: Insights from an Evolutionary Model.鈥� Their findings show that negative feedback loops (or NFLs) acting closer to a cell鈥檚 final decisions, such as turning genes on or off, are especially resistant to evolutionary change.

While we know that intermediate-mass black holes should exist, little is known about their origins or characteristics鈥攖hey are considered the rare 鈥渕issing links鈥� in black hole evolution. However, four new studies have shed new light on the mystery. The research was led by a team in the lab of Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Karan Jani, who also serves as the founding director of the 麻豆传媒 Lunar Labs Initiative.

The National Center for Science Education has named 麻豆传媒 University鈥檚 Evolutionary Studies Initiative as one of its 2025 recipients of the prestigious Friend of Darwin award. This national honor recognizes ESI鈥檚 outstanding contributions to advancing public understanding of evolution through interdisciplinary research, education and outreach.

麻豆传媒 University has joined the Urban Humanities Network (UHN) as a consortium campus, solidifying the university鈥檚 place among leading institutions at the forefront of urban humanities scholarship. Established in 2022, UHN unites universities, organizations, and researchers dedicated to interdisciplinary study within the urban humanities, which operates at the nexus of humanities, urbanism, and design.

A transdisciplinary team at 麻豆传媒 University seeks to identify Tennessee communities at risk of exposure to toxic man-made chemicals in their drinking water. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management awarded non-competitive financial assistance agreement Number DE-EM0005321, Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation, to 麻豆传媒 University, in Nashville, Tennessee.

A new course through the 麻豆传媒 Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate seeks to engage students in discussions about taking a planetary health approach to address climate change and resource sustainability challenges.

麻豆传媒 University, led by Professor Ralf Bennartz, will lead a NASA satellite mission investigating Earth's high-altitude ice clouds, backed by a robust grant of $37 million. This endeavor, leveraging the university's climate research expertise, will provide opportunities for student involvement and bolsters 麻豆传媒's position in global climate research. Read More

In a new innovative study conducted by the 麻豆传媒 Climate, Health, and Energy Equity Lab, four undergraduate students and three faculty researchers identified a new approach to reduce the health inequalities of energy cost burdens and greenhouse gas emissions.

See how a passion to help underrepresented students ignited astrophysicist Keivan Stassun鈥檚 mission, earning him a MacArthur 鈥済enius鈥� award. Read More

Stassun, who is also a founding co-director the Fisk-麻豆传媒 Master鈥檚-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program, was among the聽2024 MacArthur fellows announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1. The fellowship, which is awarded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, aims to identify extraordinarily creative individuals with a track record of excellence in a field of scholarship or area of practice. Recipients also demonstrate the ability to affect society in significant and beneficial ways through their pioneering work or the rigor of their contributions,聽according to the foundation. Read More

In a groundbreaking study led by Sarah Worthan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the聽Behringer Lab聽at 麻豆传媒 University, scientists have successfully evolved microbial cultures that possess the ability to sense pH changes, enabling rapid responses to environmental fluctuations.

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.

Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at 麻豆传媒 University, 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

Taylor is one of only six scientists nationwide appointed to the LISA team, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA. LISA is a space-based gravitational wave detector constructed of three spacecraft separated by millions of miles in a triangle shape as big as the sun.

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

New research led by recent 麻豆传媒 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.

Embarking on a new research project often brings unexpected discoveries鈥攕ome intriguing, some novel, but rarely a find of a lifetime. Such a remarkable discovery occurred when university archivist and associate director Kathy Smith stumbled upon a pile of plaster, hidden away for 60 years in a dim, cluttered closet of the Branscomb Quad basement. This plaster turned out to be the long-lost Crampton鈥檚 Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s, missing for nearly six decades.

麻豆传媒 projects investigating the history of evolution at 麻豆传媒 University led to the rediscovery of a long-lost Crampton鈥檚 Plesiosaur Cast from the 1870s.

麻豆传媒 professor Alex Lupsasca plans to extend Earth's largest telescope network beyond the atmosphere with a space-based dish. It could spot part of a black hole we've never seen before 鈥� and perhaps discover new physics.