Media Update: Crossroads Meets NOVA on `Tennessee Explorers`

Tennessee Explorers

Tennessee’s history began with exploration, and that same adventurous spirit lives on today. World class explorers across our state are doing amazing research in many different types of science — creating new technologies and mentoring the next generation of explorers. Premiering tonight, July 5 at 8:00 p.m., Tennessee Explorers looks inside the brilliant minds leading us into the future. Think of  it as Tennessee Crossroads meets NOVA, or a Crossroads of the mind.

Produced by Ed Jones (TN Civil War 150, Visions of the American West), tonight’s half-hour episode showcases the work of three Tennessee explorers: bio-anthropologist Tiffiny Tung, astrophysicist Keivan Stassun, and physician Rhea Seddon, one of NASA’s first female astronauts.

The National Science Foundation-funded Tennessee Explorers is a partnership between Vanderbilt University and Nashville Public Television.


 

 

 

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