Research News @Vanderbilt

Health & Medicine

• What leads to compulsive alcohol use? With new experiments into binge drinking, researchers are finally getting answers
• Study explores potential new class of antidepressants
• Getting the goods on obesity

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Education & Psychology

• $6.4M awarded to Vanderbilt to provide intensive training for special education doctoral students
• Vanderbilt earns $19M in federal funding for special education training and research
• Socioeconomic status dictates which children get into gifted programs 

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Engineering & Technology

• Engineering + empathy lead VU students to help kids with special needs
• Robot prototype shows promise for microsurgery on eyes and aneurysms
• Peter Cummings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK

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Law, Business & Politics

• Partisan attacks on class actions unfounded: Vanderbilt law scholar
• Support for democracy in a slump across Americas, according to new survey
• Data breach fixes could impact patient care: Study

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Life, Earth & Space

• Discovery in ferroelectric material reveals unique property, promising application potential
• Here’s how a Vanderbilt astrophysicist plans to observe a black hole ‘symphony’ using gravitational wave astronomy
• Vanderbilt astrophysicist and National Academies committee publish report on effective STEMM mentorship

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Society & Culture

• HOD major goes beyond her comfort zone for high-tech international immersion experience
• Food fight: How a community in Mexico used food to resist the Aztec empire
• Find Your Impact: Jeffrey Bennett shows how much words matter in the treatment of diabetes

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Featured Video

Here’s how a Vanderbilt astrophysicist plans to observe a black hole ‘symphony’ using gravitational wave astronomy

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