VUMC News and Communications

October 16, 2009

Video: “The Adventure of Exploration in America”

Watch video of an Oct. 14 talk, “Working at the Frontier: The Process and Adventure of Exploration,” by Rick Chappell, research professor of physics.

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October 13, 2009

Recovery Act gives boost to Vanderbilt’s scientific and medical research

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was signed into law in February, it has given a significant boost to scientific and medical research at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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October 8, 2009

Video: Health Care Business Alliance keynote speech

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 keynote speech by Randall Spratt, Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer of McKesson Corporation.

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October 8, 2009

Video: “Debating Obama’s Health Care Reform”

Health care business leaders and experts tackle hot button issues in health care as Vanderbilt hosts the Health Care Business Alliance. Watch the Oct. 2 panel discussion.

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October 8, 2009

Vanderbilt biologist receives early career development award to study tree of life

Antonis Rokas is a member of a small cadre of scientists who are applying the growing power of genomics to untangle and correctly arrange the branches of the tree of life.
October 5, 2009

First direct information about the prion’s molecular structure reported

A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about the molecular structure of prions. In addition, the study has revealed surprisingly large structural differences between natural prions and the closest synthetic analogs that scientists have created in the lab.

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October 1, 2009

Vanderbilt astronomers participate in new search for dark energy

The most ambitious attempt yet to trace the history of the universe has seen "first light." The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III), took its first astronomical data on the night of Sept. 14-15 at the Sloan Foundation telescope in New Mexico.
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September 23, 2009

Vanderbilt founding member of new online research news channel

Concerned with the dramatic decline in the traditional media's coverage of newsworthy scientific and academic activities, Vanderbilt has joined with 34 other top research universities to create Futurity.org, an online news channel designed to showcase the achievements of their scientists and engineers, medical researchers and scholars.
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September 10, 2009

Vanderbilt student health staff kept busy with flu-like cases

The novel H1N1 flu virus is a presence on the Vanderbilt campus, as it is on many U.S. university campuses, but it appears to be no more serious than the regular seasonal flu, Vanderbilt's chief student health official says.
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September 9, 2009

Video: State of the Medical Center

Watch video of the Sept. 8 State of the Medical Center address.
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September 8, 2009

TIPSHEET: Vanderbilt experts available to talk about the health care reform debate

William Turner, former Obama health care advisor, Betts Chair and Professor of Education and Human Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, is among several Vanderbilt professors available to comment on health care reform.
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September 3, 2009

Vanderbilt discovery may shed light on evolutionary adaptations and human disease

Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center led by Billy Hudson, Elliot V. Newman Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Biochemistry and Director, Vanderbilt Center for Matrix Biology, have discovered a new chemical bond in biological tissue, a fundamental discovery that helps explain evolutionary adaptation in the animal kingdom and may shed light on human disease.
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