Month: April 2013
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Sports concussion seminar April 30
The Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center is hosting a free educational seminar on sports concussion on Tuesday, April 30. Experts in neurology and sports medicine will discuss signs and symptoms of concussion, return-to-play guidelines, long term effects, the importance of baseline testing, proper equipment fittings, how to set up a school… Read MoreApr 3, 2013
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American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant applications due May 1
Applications are being solicited for support by the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (IRG). These funds are designed to provide seed money to support junior faculty members with an interest in cancer research who do not have external grant support. The ACS defines junior faculty as investigators at the… Read MoreApr 3, 2013
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Workshop featuring Coach James Franklin, others to address managing staff effectively
This workshop is the first in the Leadership, Education and Development Series (LEADS). The Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt presents “Managing the Happy, Crabby and All Those in Between,” which will bring together speakers from different entities of business to speak about what it takes to manage… Read MoreApr 3, 2013
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“Silent” B cells trigger autoimmunity
Immune cells that recognize self antigens (e.g. insulin), but are functionally silent, can trigger autoimmune diseases such as diabetes. Read MoreApr 3, 2013
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‘The Flipped Classroom and Peer Instruction’ lecture April 4
If you’re interested in improving student learning in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields or in large classes of any discipline, you won’t want to miss Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur’s talk in Light Hall at noon Thursday, April 4. Mazur’s talk, titled “An Alternative Approach to Helping… Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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Impact Symposium: Leymah Gbowee
Watch Leymah Gbowee, a 2011 Nobel laureate, speak at Vanderbilt's Impact Symposium March 19, 2013. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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Pint’s lab brings first ALD systems to Vanderbilt
Cary Pint’s lab – Nanomaterials and Energy Devices Laboratory in Olin Hall – is close to completion and it brings to Vanderbilt its first two atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems, relatively small tools that deposit atomically thin layers of material on virtually any surface. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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Expert: North Korea’s saber-rattling intended as distraction to nation’s real problems
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is either leading his country’s military or being led by that military into a rhetorical battle with the United States, South Korea and Japan that he and his generals cannot win, according to James Auer, director of Vanderbilt’s Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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Telerobotic system designed to treat bladder cancer
An interdisciplinary collaboration of engineers and doctors at Vanderbilt and Columbia Universities has designed a robotic microsurgery system specifically designed to treat bladder cancer, the sixth most common form of cancer in the U.S. and the most expensive to treat. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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‘Learning and the MOOC’ continues April 4
The Center for Teaching is hosting an online conference that features presentations by nearly two dozen faculty and administrators from colleges and universities around the world experimenting with massive open online courses. Read MoreApr 2, 2013
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The trouble with car title loans is NOT people losing their cars
Less than 10 percent of vehicles involved in car title loans end up being repossessed, according to a new study by a professor from Vanderbilt Law School. Read MoreApr 1, 2013
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Former Israeli prime minister to speak at Vanderbilt April 7
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak will speak at Vanderbilt in his first appearance on a college campus since ending his term as Israel’s minister of defense in March 2013. Read MoreApr 1, 2013
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Fingers and toes: joint forming factor
The gene Has2 participates in signaling that is important in developing fingers and toes, and may have relevance for cancer development. Read MoreApr 1, 2013
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VUCast video goes to new format to reach burgeoning demographic
The popular VUCast newscast featured on the Vanderbilt homepage has gone to a new format to reach a previously untapped campus audience – squirrels. Former VUCast anchor Amy Wolf “At first it sounded nuts, but it turned out to be a no brainer,” said former VUCast anchor Amy… Read MoreApr 1, 2013