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Outlook for Immigration Reform and Implications for Higher Education
The Office of Federal Relations hosted a July 31 Federal Forum: “Outlook for Immigration Reform and Implications for Higher Education.” Participants include Beth Fortune, vice chancellor for public affairs, Sherif Barsoum, director of the International Student and Scholar Services, Dahlia French, director of the Office of International Services, and Margie… Read MoreAug 1, 2013
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VUCast: See stars at space camp
Get ready to see stars– We’re taking you to space camp. See why mosquitoes bite you more than others Why you should get “Pinterested” in Vanderbilt! All this and more in this week’s VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreJul 31, 2013
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Human Rights Campaign Summer Institute performance with Peterson Toscano
In a lively performance, Peterson Toscano explores the stories of gender-variant and gender non-conforming characters in the Bible. Hilarious, moving, and grounded in scholarship, Toscano’s “performance lecture” deepens well-known (and lesser-known) Bible stories as he presents an array of characters with an array of genders. Read MoreJul 30, 2013
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Baby’s life-changing surgery, before birth
Vanderbilt’s Junior League Fetal Center is offering ground-breaking treatments and surgeries in the hopes of providing unborn babies the best start to life. Vanderbilt’s Barb Cramer has the amazing story– and surgical video– of fetal surgery to repair an unborn baby’s spinal cord defect. For more about Vanderbilt’s Fetal Center,… Read MoreJul 18, 2013
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VUCast: Life-changing surgery before birth – through mom’s womb!
In this week’s VUCast: See a baby’s life-changing surgery before he’s even born! A former senator and Vandy grad shares important pieces of history. See a hot weather homerun All this and more in this week’s VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreJul 17, 2013
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All-Hands Information Technology Meeting with Vice Chancellor John Lutz
Watch a June 27 meeting of the new Vanderbilt Information Technology division, led by Vice Chancellor John Lutz. Read more. Read MoreJun 28, 2013
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Watch: Coursera-in-TN
Coursera-in-TN is a collaborative conversation between the Vanderbilt University Coursera team and the Tennessee State System schools which recently joined with Coursera. At an event on June 24, 2013, Vanderbilt administrators, faculty and staff shared lessons learned from the early days of Coursera production, and gave brief show-and-tell remarks about… Read MoreJun 28, 2013
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Healing with a mother’s voice
Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers are using a new mom’s own singing voice to help preemie babies learn an essential skill that is often difficult for them. Read MoreJun 27, 2013
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VUCast: Musical pacifier teaches preemies a life-saving skill
See how a musical pacifier teaches preemies a life-saving skill Why this awesome “kid president” is spending so much time at Vanderbilt Hear the Vandy student wowing judges on America’s Got Talent All this and more in this week’s VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. Read MoreJun 27, 2013
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VUCast: See advances in this robotic hand; get a special view of Commodore baseball
In this week’s VUCast: Bionic Breakthrough: See advances in this robotic hand What Vandy doctors are doing with the military to avoid amputations See a special view of Commodore baseball All this and more in this week’s VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreJun 12, 2013
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VUCast: Why Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift put Vanderbilt in their newest music video
In this week’s VUCast: See a student invention to save babies from hot cars. Why Nashville stars Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift put Vanderbilt in their latest video. How you could win $10,000 in a new Vandy app contest. All this and more in this week’s VUCast,… Read MoreMay 28, 2013
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Medical students help reunite family
Medical students at the free, student-run Shade Tree Clinic may have saved a patient’s life, but not using traditional medicine. The man had become distraught and even suicidal when his wife and son became stranded in Mexico without a visa, and were told they might not be able to return… Read MoreMay 16, 2013
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Most math being taught in kindergarten is old news to students
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes—skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. Read MoreMay 16, 2013
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VUCast Extra: Remembering Commencement 2013
Graduates laughed, cried and left as Vanderbilt alums for life. Re-live Commencement 2013. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreMay 11, 2013
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Commencement 2013
Full coverage of Commencement 2013 available on the Commencement website. Read MoreMay 10, 2013
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Toni Morrison Senior Day address
Vanderbilt University seniors closed the chapter on their undergraduate experience with words from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who delivered the Senior Day address Thursday, May 9, at 11 a.m. Read more »… Read MoreMay 8, 2013
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John Wikswo at TEDx Nashville: The Homunculi and I
John Wikswo, Gordon A. Cain University Professor of biomedical engineering and A. B. Learned Professor of Living Physics, presented "Homunculi and I: Lessons from building organs on chips" at TedX Nashville April 6, 2013. Read MoreMay 6, 2013
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VUCast: How a student saves girls from violence; music stars sing patients’ songs; see the Dores at dawn.
See how a student is saving young women from violence one download at a time. Music therapy hits the big time. Hear stars sing young patients’ songs. How hard does the football… Read MoreApr 24, 2013
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The Power to Heal
The power to heal is far more complex than just the use of medications and clinical treatments. That is what Vanderbilt Medical students are learning, along with collaborative partners from the school of nursing, the law school, and local schools of pharmacy and social work. Together they volunteer as teams… Read MoreApr 17, 2013
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Sci-Fi Author Kat Zhang
She’s juggling her studies and life as a sci-fi author! Meet writing phenom Kat Zhang. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreApr 16, 2013