Research Blog
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Vanderbilt takes top prize in NASA student rocket launch challenge
The Vanderbilt Aerospace Club has captured first prize in the 2013 NASA Student Launch Initiative. The Vanderbilt team also took home the 2013 Best Payload Design award for the most creative and innovative payload experiment: bio-hybrid ramjet engines that use carbon-neutral, 100-percent-renewable bio-hybrid fuels for combustion. Read MoreMay 21, 2013
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Weiss participates in NSF advocacy day
As part of Vanderbilt’s ongoing federal advocacy efforts in support of federal funding for research and education at the National Science Foundation, Sharon Weiss, associate professor of electrical engineering and physics, traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Coalition for National Science Funding’s (CNSF) advocacy day and Capitol Hill reception on May 7. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Lecturer seeks to unravel viral replication’s mysteries
Viruses are among the most confounding creatures on the planet. Read MoreMay 9, 2013
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Learning in MOOC Years
"Eight weeks and 30,000 students gave me a crash course in the future of digital learning technologies," writes engineering professor Doug Schmidt in this Vanderbilt Magazine column on his experience teaching one of Vanderbilt University's first massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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Public lecture on latest efforts to probe the fabric of space and time
UC-Santa Barbara physics professor Joe Incandela, a leader of the project that found the Higgs boson, will visit Vanderbilt and give a public lecture on the latest results from the Large Hadron Collider on Tuesday night, May 21st. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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Events honor, celebrate VU’s women scientists
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is celebrating its women scientists with five events this month that feature inspiring women sharing their research achievements and lives. Read MoreApr 25, 2013
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Coordinated messaging key to federal support: Cooper
In an era of budget cutting and belt-tightening, how can science get more support from the federal government? Read MoreApr 25, 2013
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The Hill: Remembering the chemical atttacks against the Kurds
Twenty-five years ago this March, Iraqi forces coordinated a calculated campaign of genocide against the Kurds, an atrocity that should remind the world that it must rally to the aid of those who suffer from brutal regimes, writes Michael Newton, professor of the practice of law. Read MoreMar 29, 2013
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25th anniversary of Kurdish genocide holds lessons to prevent atrocities in Syria today
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the gas attacks on the Kurdish village of Halabja, Iraq, at the hand of Saddam Hussein that killed at least 5,000 civilians. Vanderbilt University international criminal and humanitarian law expert Michael Newton says lessons learned from the Halabja attack could help the persecuted Kurds being attacked in Syria today. Read MoreMar 13, 2013
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Vanderbilt’s Peabody No. 1 education school for fifth consecutive year
Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development was named the top graduate school of education in the country for the fifth consecutive year by U.S. News and World Report. Read MoreMar 12, 2013
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Jonathan Metzl: Colion Noir, the NRA’s ‘urban gun enthusiast,’ is off target
Over time, guns become much more than symbols of self-protection—they become symbols of racial inquietude and mistrust, writes Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health and Society, in NBC news blog "The Grio." Read MoreMar 8, 2013
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Dr. Jeffrey R. Balser: Stop the Sequester
The vital partnership between NIH and Vanderbilt – reproduced at universities all around the country – supports thousands of brilliant minds from all around the world. Sequestration will discourage a generation of young people from even considering a career in research. Read MoreMar 5, 2013
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Study finds Vanderbilt generated $8.6 billion economic impact on Tennessee
Vanderbilt University had an $8.6 billion impact on the Tennessee state economy during fiscal year 2011-12, according to an independent economic analysis released today. Read MoreFeb 21, 2013
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Tech spinoffs that began with federal research investment boost economy
School of Engineering Dean Philippe Fauchet emphasized the importance of federal research investment to members of Tennessee's congressional delegation while he was in Washington, D.C., for the annual American Society of Engineering Education conference. Read MoreFeb 18, 2013
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Mad as a Hatter: Global efforts to reduce mercury emissions
Last month representatives of more than 140 countries agreed to the terms of a treaty called the Minamata Convention that would ban many uses of mercury by 2020. But the efforts do not go far enough, says Vanderbilt pharmacologist Michael Aschner. Read MoreFeb 18, 2013
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Vanderbilt researchers, students part of inaugural SEC symposium on renewable energy
Two Vanderbilt professors were among the energy experts at the inaugural SEC Symposium, and Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Club represented the university in the SEC showcase. Read MoreFeb 13, 2013
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What beer, dogs, cats and soy sauce have in common: The movie
A new video report of research by Antonis Rokas and John Gibbons describes how humans domesticated microbes like yeast just as we domesticated cats and dogs. Read MoreFeb 5, 2013
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Senator Alexander warns of major threats to research universities
Sen. Lamar Alexander (Courtesy of Congress) Imagine a world where American research universities lag behind those in other nations, can no longer be counted upon to make major new scientific discoveries and, as a consequence, money flows to businesses in Bangalore or Beijing that capitalize on their… Read MoreDec 18, 2012
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McLean plays major role in national chemical-agent destruction report
Vanderbilt chemist John McLean served as one of the 14 members of the NRC expert committee that prepared a report in September that recommends the potential of new methods for monitoring the process of destroying the remainder of the nation’s aging stockpile of chemical warfare munitions that could reduce the time and expense involved by almost two thirds. Read MoreDec 10, 2012
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Peters’ introductory image processing lecture notes an online hit
Electrical engineering professor Alan Peters has posted the lecture notes to his popular introductory image processing course online. Read MoreNov 19, 2012