Research News @Vanderbilt

Health & Medicine

• Target trials support drug safety in pregnant patients
• Research probes why COVID-19 seems to spare young children
• New research reveals environmental pollutant in drinking water is more dangerous than previously understood

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Education & Psychology

• To Bridge the Gap: Peabody’s Department of Special Education applies best-in-class academic research to solve real-world challenges
• Ask an Expert: What do people with disabilities face during the pandemic?
• Parent depression linked to reduced empathy, putting kids at risk for adverse outcomes

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Engineering & Technology

• Collaborative project from VU and VUMC improves intubation box safety for COVID-19 caregivers
• Team makes breakthrough in separation science with sub-Angstrom precision
• Class project leads to a paper in peer reviewed international journal

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Law, Business & Politics

• New research on ‘endowment effect’ points to evolutionary roots of cognitive biases
• Nashville residents rally to city leaders amid pandemic, but worry about economy – Vanderbilt Poll
• Ask an Expert: How can healthcare leaders support compassion in the workplace?

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Life, Earth & Space

• Vanderbilt lab develops app for analyzing crowd-sourced songbird recordings
• Biology researchers capture shape-shifting delivery structures in body’s cellular “FedEx system”
• Fasting at night or in the morning? Listen to your biological clock, says new research

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Society & Culture

• New braille phonetic system opens doors for classical singers with visual impairments
• Two Arts and Science professors named 2020 Guggenheim Fellows
• College boosts arts careers in surprising and important ways: report

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Nashville residents rally to city leaders amid pandemic, but worry about economy – Vanderbilt Poll

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