Month: August 2011
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Pet therapy animals find places in the hearts of patients and families
A celebrity had entered the concourse at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks, causing quite a sensation. Eyes wide and mouths gaping open, onlookers young and old stopped in their tracks to gawk at the visitor, and many whipped out cell phones to snap a photo. But then they started asking… Read MoreAug 5, 2011
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Jay Michaelson: “Queer Scholarship and Queer Activism: Liminality, Identity and the Plight of the ‘Good Gays'”
Watch video of Jay Michaelson, executive director of Nehirim (a nonprofit which builds community for LGBT Jews, partners and allies), speaking Aug. 4 on “Queer Scholarship and Queer Activism: Liminality, Identity and the Plight of the ‘Good Gays.’” In cooperation with the Human Rights Campaign, the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender,… Read MoreAug 5, 2011
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Kidney dopamine regulates blood pressure, life span
Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have demonstrated that dopamine produced outside the brain – in the kidneys – is important for renal function, blood pressure regulation and life span. Read MoreAug 5, 2011
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Clear vision of protein interactions
Researchers identify protein partners that may keep the lens of the eye transparent – and free from cataracts. Read MoreAug 5, 2011
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Designing diamond circuits for extreme environments
There is a new way to design computer chips and electronic circuitry for extreme environments: make them out of diamond. Read MoreAug 4, 2011
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Mary E. Hunt: “Responsible Academics are Useful Activists”
Feminist theologian Mary E. Hunt spoke Aug. 1 as part of the Summer Institute for Seminary Students, sponsored by the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality and the Human Rights Campaign. Watch video of Hunt, co-founder and co-director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, speaking on… Read MoreAug 3, 2011
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Out of the Deep
A shark attack leads to a collaboration that could transform the lives of amputees This is the last snapshot taken of Craig Hutto before a shark attack claimed his leg on June 27, 2005. Photo provided by Craig Hutto It was an overcast June morning at Cap San Blas, Fla.,… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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It’s All Connected
The Sustainability Project sparks a campus dialogue about our relationship with the environment and commitment to its future (Neil Brake/Vanderbilt) Bangladesh, in South Asia, is a flat, low-lying land situated between the melting snowcaps of the Himalayas… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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In Conversation
Tim Corbin reflects on the best baseball team in school history Coach Tim Corbin (John Russell/Vanderbilt) For a head baseball coach, Tim Corbin quite easily slides away… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Rethinking History
Frank Wcislo examines how we consider Russia and its leaders two decades after the Cold War Frank Wcislo, associate professor of history (John Russell/Vanderbilt) As Soviet Russia disintegrated in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Frank Wcislo and other… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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Editor’s Note
As you can see, the Vanderbilt View underwent a transformation over the summer. Not a full-blown overhaul by any means, but a little nip and tuck nonetheless. As you might imagine, we’re doing our best to save trees and money. But that’s not our only motivation. Since the View launched… Read MoreAug 1, 2011
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