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InsideOut of the Lunch Box: Momentum Dance Company
Watch video of the most recent presentation in the InsideOut of the Lunch Box series — Vanderbilt University’s Momentum Dance Company — which took place on November 21. Momentum Dance Company is Vanderbilt’s first student-run dance performance group. All pieces are choreographed, directed, and performed by Vanderbilt undergraduate students. Their… Read MoreNov 27, 2013
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VUCast: Same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court—What’s next?
Will a definitive same-sex marriage lawsuit wind up in the Supreme Court? Also, finding what goes "boom" might get safer; and it’s time to slow down and smell the roses, Vandy-style. Watch these stories and more in VUCast, Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Read MoreNov 22, 2013
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QuickVU: Bomb detection, autism and the theatre, and another Top 10 list
Finding what goes boom might one day get safer Children with autism take center stage And who made the 10 Innovators who changed the world list? Watch the QuickVU Research roundup now. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreNov 22, 2013
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Watch and remember JFK’s visit to Vanderbilt
In remembrance of President John F. Kennedy’s death 50 years ago, watch this video of JFK’s visit to Vanderbilt just months before his assassination. Read more about President Kennedy’s visit to Vanderbilt for our 90th anniversary convocation in 1963 » Read Rob Hammond’s 1993 article about JFK’s… Read MoreNov 20, 2013
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Scholarship students show the impact of Opportunity Vanderbilt
Sabre Rucker grew up just a few miles from the Vanderbilt campus in East Nashville. Despite her successes in high school, her dreams of “black and gold” seemed out of reach. But Opportunity Vanderbilt made her dreams real. Her story is featured in a new video on Opportunity Vanderbilt, the… Read MoreNov 20, 2013
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Watch Vandy Beat Kentucky and Make History
Vanderbilt becomes bowl eligible for the third year in a row—a first in Vanderbilt football history—with a win over Kentucky. Watch this VUCast Extra and get excited all over again. Go Dores!… Read MoreNov 19, 2013
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VUCast: Want to know what’s trending? Watch QuickVU
Vanderbilt's Campus Rec Center gets national recognition; Vanderbilt-themed weddings are all the rage; and the VU community shares their snapshots. See what's trending on QuickVU -- watch now! Read MoreNov 13, 2013
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“Reflections of the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville: Then and Now”
Watch video of the most recent presentation in the Food for Thought lunchtime series ”Reflections of the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville: Then and Now,” which took place on November 5. In partnership with the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, the Vanderbilt University Office of Community, Neighborhood, and Government… Read MoreNov 7, 2013
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“A Citizen of the World: The Global Martin Luther King Jr.”
Lewis V. Baldwin, who has devoted much of his life to teaching and scholarship on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., delivered the Vanderbilt University Divinity School’s 2013 Harrod Lecture Nov. 7. Read more. … Read MoreNov 7, 2013
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Expert: Same-sex marriage issue could define Justice Kennedy’s place in history
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has written all of the court’s decisions striking down discrimination against homosexuals, is poised for a prominent place in history if a same-sex marriage case makes it to the high court, says a Vanderbilt law professor. Read more. Read MoreNov 5, 2013
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Vanderbilt Divinity Breakfast: Digging where Jezebel lived
A renowned expert on the Hebrew Bible and six students who took part in an archaeological excavation at Jezreel, Israel, shared their experiences at a Vanderbilt Divinity School community breakfast Oct. 29. “Jezreel, the site famously connected in the Bible with the evil King Ahab and his scheming wife, Jezebel,… Read MoreNov 1, 2013
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VUCast: A wireless capsule and hallucinating without drugs
See how a wireless capsule could help during minimally invasive surgeries Why magnesium and vitamin D are a match made in heaven And do you really see the S in the USA network logo? Watch this QuickVU roundup of research stories. [vucastblurb]… Read MoreOct 30, 2013
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VUCast Extra: Blackberries, electricity and high school students
How do you get students excited about science? Try mixing blackberries and a lesson in nanotechnology with some eager Tennessee high school students in a Vanderbilt lab. Watch the results on VUCast Extra now. Read MoreOct 23, 2013
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Using sound waves for bomb detection
A remote acoustic detection system designed to identify homemade bombs can determine the difference between those that contain low-yield and high-yield explosives. Read MoreOct 23, 2013
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New device stores electricity on silicon chips
Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7. Cell phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges: These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design invented by material scientists at Vanderbilt University. Read MoreOct 22, 2013
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Video: Life Redesigned: The Emergence of Synthetic Biology
Watch video of the Donna S. and John R. Hall Engineering Lecture, delivered by synthetic biology pioneer James J. Collins. Collins is the recipient of a MacArthur grant and a renowned biomedical engineering professor at Boston University. One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department… Read MoreOct 21, 2013
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Video: Justice and Identity in a Bioengineered Society
Watch “Justice and Identity in a Bioengineered Society,” by Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History. One of the earliest biomedical engineering programs in the United States, Vanderbilt’s Department of Biomedical Engineering is celebrating its 45th anniversary as a program and its 25th anniversary as a department in the School of… Read MoreOct 21, 2013
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VUCast: Startling brain-related study on critically ill patients
In the latest VUCast: ICU patients are leaving hospitals with a dementia-like disease; What’s the fate of the Republican Party?; Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Distinguished Visiting Professor Jon Meacham; and It's time to celebrate -- the Rate My Professor 2013 rankings are in. All this and more in Vanderbilt’s online newscast. Watch now. Read MoreOct 16, 2013
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Long-term brain impairment too common after critical illness
A recent Vanderbilt study shows a significant number of patients are entering I.C.U.’s throughout the world with no evidence of cognitive — brain related issues, but are leaving with symptoms associated with mild Alzheimer’s or Traumatic Brain Injury. Barb Cramer has more. Read MoreOct 8, 2013
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Cal Turner Program Lecture: Canon Andrew White
Cal Turner Program Lecture: Canon Andrew White… Read MoreOct 8, 2013