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Higher education, federal government ‘intimately connected’
Dec. 9, 2011—The federal government’s increasing involvement in higher education over the past 100 years has created an intimate relationship that was once virtually nonexistent.
Parent-led discussion enhances children’s learning from television
Dec. 7, 2011—Children learn more from television when parents interact with them similarly to book reading.
Study points to personal treatment for atrial fibrillation
Dec. 6, 2011—Individuals with atrial fibrillation who have a particular genetic variant respond better to rate control therapy.
Study finds more young people becoming nurses
Dec. 6, 2011—Nursing shortage eased by 62 percent increase in young nurses over past decade.
Ecstasy drug produces lasting toxicity in the brain
Dec. 6, 2011—Recreational use of the "rave" drug Ecstasy is associated with chronic changes in the human brain.
Groundbreaking legal research shows potentially serious failures in the Model Penal Code
Dec. 1, 2011—Groundbreaking new legal research from a team of Vanderbilt University and other researchers suggests that juror confusion over how to apply the Model Penal Code in criminal trials could cause major, unnoticed and life-altering sentencing errors.
ISIS pioneers model-integrated computing
Nov. 30, 2011—Recent ongoing research highlights the Institute for Software Integrated Systems' broad, multidisciplinary impact.
Researcher: Republicans are fumbling the immigration issue
Nov. 28, 2011—When the Republican presidential candidates ramp up anti-immigrant rhetoric this campaign season, they are likely to alienate conservative-leaning Latinos.
Vanderbilt scholar’s research with black males expands to Pittsburgh
Nov. 23, 2011—Two western Pennsylvania school systems will use a program developed at Vanderbilt University to encourage young black males to be successful in school and go on to college.
Six ways we kill innovation without even trying
Nov. 21, 2011—Management professor David Owens of the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management says that business and other leaders need to understand exactly which of the constraints are working against them to help create conditions that foster innovation instead of killing it.
Autoimmune drugs don’t boost infection risk: study
Nov. 18, 2011—A Vanderbilt study shows that a class of drugs used to treat autoimmune diseases does not increase the chance of hospitalization for serious infection.
Estrogen treatments increase gray matter in brain
Nov. 18, 2011—Short-term hormone replacement therapy offers potential benefit for cognitive functioning.