The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development will hold its first Science Day on Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center. The event is free and open to the community.

Science Day will feature a panel presentation “Discovery Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration.” Three teams of scientists will share what led them to work together across disciplines on an important research question and how their collaboration has led to significant research findings.

“We hope to model, for fellow scientists and students--the future scientists—how fruitful collaboration across disciplines can be,” said Vanderbilt Kennedy Center director Pat Levitt, Ph.D., who will be a panelist. “Today, the most exciting areas of discovery are at the interface of disciplines where knowledge is fragmentary and methods may be less well developed. Yet this is exactly where the leaps in understanding are most likely to occur.”

Science Day also will feature two sessions of research posters submitted by Vanderbilt Kennedy Center researchers and their students, trainees, or postdoctoral fellows. Prizes will be awarded.

For information call 322-8240. To register to attend and/or to submit a poster (poster submission deadline October 15), see the Science Day feature at http://kc.vanderbilt.edu.

Contact: Jan Rosemergy, (615)322-8238   
jan.rosemergy@vanderbilt.edu