IN THE NEWS
Since the launch of Aspirnaut™, we have generated headlines and made the news for our community impact.
On August 2, 2022, Aspirnaut™ was featured on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt to celebrate our 15th anniversary.
We were featured on MSNBC in 2008 for their “Making A Difference” segment.
2023
Learning to Pivot: Developing Talent and A Championship Team
Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association | 2023
PVAMU Senior Names 2023 White House HBCU Scholar
Prairie View A&M University | July 21, 2023
Aalia Holt will attend Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Hector Public Schools | May, 2023
As retirement approaches, five siblings finish Berea College
Richmond Register | May 17, 2023
Initiative, hard work create STEM opportunities for BHS student Sahra Hassan
VSAC Blog | February 27, 2023
VUMC's Aspirnaut program to install science lab at Wynne High School in Arkansas
VUMC Reporter | March 2 2023
VUMC's Aspirnaut program to install science lab at Wynne High School in Arkansas
Nashville Medical News | March 3 2023
2022
HCTC Students Selected for Summer Research Internship
The Ellsworth American | March 22, 2022
2020
Berea College grad receives prestigious Phi Kappa Phi fellowship
ABC WTVQ 36 | September 11, 2020
2019
Aspirnaut: a rural high school pipeline to increase diversity in STEM
Nature Reviews Nephrology | August 2019
Columbia State Students Excel During Summer Research Experience
The College System of Tennessee | August 2019
Former Neshoba Central Student Spending Summer In Research Labs
The Neshoba Democrat | May 2019
HCPA Student Takes Part in Vanderbilt University Internship Program
Hmong Times Online | 2019
2017
Aspirnaut program helps launch students into science
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter | July 2017
One BOLD-Fellows Journey from Cellular Platelet Biologist to Discovery Science Educator
Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching | June 2017
Ancient sea creature unlocks a mystery of how tissue developed
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Reporter | April 2017
2016
You aspire, you seek, you achieve, and you pay if forward
National Institutes of Health | July 2016
Henderson biology major attends Vanderbilt biomedical program
The Sentinel-Record | June 2016
2015
Yale junior swapped New Haven for Nashville this summer to study gene therapy treatment
YaleNews | September 2015
Taos students seek local residents exposed to Hantavirus
The Tao News| July 2015
Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
2014
Aspirnaut™ Announces Successful Completion of Summer Research Experience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
KIPP Delta Public School: Recent Press | September 2014
Adamsville High School Student Accepts Summer Internship at Vanderbilt University
Summer Science Experience | May 2014
House Joint Resolution 787 108th Regular Session Commending Dr. Julie Hudson
State of Tennessee | March 2014
2013
A Unique Covalent Bond in Basement Membrane is a Primordial Innovation for Tissue Evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science | December 2013
A Shining Light: Aspirnaut Program guides students to educational opportunities beyond poverty
Vanderbilt Medicine | Summer 2013
Distance learning program links rural students to Vanderbilt student and research faculty
Bangor Daily News | March 2013
2012
From One-Room Schools to Ph.D.s, Aspirnaut helps poor kids reach for the stars
Article25 | October 2012
USET honors two students and Vanderbilt announces new opportunity
Cherokee One Feather | October 2012
USET Honors Two Students at Annual Meeting and Vanderbilt Announces New Opportunity
USET Press Release | October 2012
Patterson: USET’s Leaders Using “The Good Mind” to Build a Legacy
Indian Country | October 2012
Vanderbilt courts rural students for STEM
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | September 2012
Stothers Accepted to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
The Sheridan Headlight | August 2012
USET Member Students attend summer internship at Vanderbilt University
Cherokee One Feather | July 2012
Josh Avance Earns Berea College Scholarship the Pinnacle Awards
The Sheridan Headlight | July 2012
Join Aspirnaut for a special science lab based on “We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes”
Island Readers and Writers | April 2012
2011
Five Years of Giving Rural Students Second Chances
ASBMB Interview with Dr. Billy Hudson | December 2011
Aspirnaut, Poyen School District student receives Pinnacle Scholar Award
Sheridan Headlight | November 2011
Berea College and Vanderbilt University Collaborate on Internship Program
Berea College- BC Now! | March 2011
2010
Screens extend learning to buses; Mounted computers play educational programs for students
Arkansas Democrat Gazette | November 2010
Beech Hill school pilots science program with Vanderbilt University
The Ellsworth American | October 2010
2009
NIDDK Recovery Grant Funds Innovative Kidney Research Project for Students
NIDDK News Releases | October 2009
High school students do groundbreaking biological research at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University myVU | September 2009
2008
Internet Access Turns School Buses into Rolling Classrooms
The Wall Street Journal | December 2008
2007
District turns bus into classroom, Project’s Internet hookups let Sheridan kids ride and study
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | December 2007
The Long Way Home- Billy Hudson’s ambitious math, science education plan honors his rural roots
VUMC Reporter Profile | April 2007