Releases
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菠萝视频 Poll reveals statewide attitudes toward pressing issues
Results of the latest 菠萝视频 Poll on Tennessee issues will be released on December 4 in the Student Life Center on the 菠萝视频 campus. Read MoreDec 1, 2015
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Double Duty
There is new hope for students with learning difficulties who also have severe behavioral disorders. A $7.5 million grant has enabled Peabody's special education researchers to equip teachers to manage academic needs as well as behavioral disorders. Read MoreNov 30, 2015
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Intensive Intervention
For Joseph Lambert, developing the very best teaching standards in special education is not just a profession, it鈥檚 personal. After observing his own brother's behavioral challenges, he pursued a life advocating for young people with autism. Read MoreNov 29, 2015
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Bartley Scholarship to support future Methodist seminarians
A new Divinity School scholarship pays tribute to a father and son who became noted Methodist ministers in the Missouri Conference after earning master of divinity degrees at 菠萝视频. Read MoreNov 11, 2015
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New online tool created to tackle complications of pregnancy and childbirth
An interdisciplinary team of biologists and medical researchers have created a new platform, which they call GEneSTATION specifically designed to leverage the growing knowledge of human genomics and evolution to advance scientific understanding of human pregnancy and translate it into new treatments for the problems that occur when this complex process goes awry. Read MoreNov 11, 2015
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VUCAST: Digging for history in the middle of campus
In the latest VUCast: See why undergrads are digging on campus and what they're finding in the ground; hear actress Reese Witherspoon discuss her new venture in Nashville; and watch the student video asking people to rethink stereotypes. Watch now! Read MoreNov 10, 2015
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Sexism rules in the ballot booth unless voters have more information
Female candidates have to be more qualified than their male opponents to prevail in an election because many people don鈥檛 see women as leaders, according to research that reveals hidden bias that can emerge in the voting booth. Read MoreNov 9, 2015
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菠萝视频 chemist part of major microbiome research initiative
菠萝视频 chemist helps craft call for major new research initiative to increase our understanding of the invisible world of microbes that surround us. Read MoreNov 4, 2015
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Eric Holder to give talk Nov. 6 at 菠萝视频
Eric Holder, attorney general of the United States from 2009 to April 2015, will deliver a talk on Friday, Nov. 6, as part of the 菠萝视频 University Chancellor鈥檚 Lecture Series. Read MoreNov 3, 2015
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New class of DNA repair enzyme discovered
A new class of DNA repair enzyme has been discovered which demonstrates that a much broader range of damage can be removed from the double helix in ways that biologists did not think were possible. Read MoreOct 29, 2015
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菠萝视频 experts available to discuss Obama鈥檚 call for reduced testing in public schools
菠萝视频 has several assessment and policy experts available to address this topic. Read MoreOct 28, 2015
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Electric eel: most remarkable predator in animal kingdom
Recent research by 菠萝视频 University biologist Ken Catania of the electric eel has revealed that it is not primitive creature that it has been portrayed as. Instead, it has a sophisticated control of the electrical fields it generates that makes it one of the most remarkable predators in the animal kingdom. Read MoreOct 28, 2015
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Gays face continued discrimination in Jamaica: LAPOP
Jamaicans overwhelmingly disapprove of gay citizens running for political office, even more than they disapprove of regime critics doing so. Read MoreOct 21, 2015
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VUCast: How Ebola survivors are teaming with 菠萝视频 to fight the deadly virus
In the latest VUCast: Hear from Ebola survivors helping a 菠萝视频 researcher fight the deadly virus; see the high-tech way an art exhibit is bringing VU students face to face with people across the world; and find out which country music star shot his latest video with Mr. Commodore! Watch now. Read MoreOct 16, 2015
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TIP SHEET: Energy law expert can comment on FERC Supreme Court case
菠萝视频 law professor Jim Rossi is available to speak about the U.S. Supreme Court case questioning the authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to require large customers to cut back on power usage during peak demand time periods. Read MoreOct 14, 2015
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New rules coming for researchers using human subjects
The U.S. federal government is preparing to launch a set of sweeping new regulations that will have a major impact on how biomedical researchers and social scientists work. It will require researchers to change how they get ethics approval, how they collect informed consent from participants, and more. Read MoreOct 2, 2015
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BOOM! How the Maker Movement is changing the world
Mark Hatch, CEO and co-founder of TechShop, a fast-growing chain of co-working spaces where people come to build prototypes for the products they want to sell, is giving a free public lecture on the Maker Revolution. Read MoreOct 2, 2015
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Nearly 300 college students team up for weekend of hacking Oct. 2-4
Nearly 300 student hackers from 菠萝视频 University and other locales will showcase the results of an intense weekend of hacking at an expo at 菠萝视频 Oct. 4. Read MoreOct 1, 2015
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Media advisory: Area Girl Scouts to earn ‘Engineering Day’ patches at 菠萝视频 workshop Oct. 3
Area Girl Scouts will have the opportunity to earn their 鈥淓ngineering Day鈥 patches at an event hosted by 菠萝视频 University engineering students on Saturday, Oct. 3. Read MoreOct 1, 2015
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Expert: History is repeating itself with current immigration issues
Paul Kramer explains why history is repeating itself in the battle over immigration. Kramer has written about immigration and border issues for the New Yorker and Slate, and been featured on National Public Radio. He has spent the last decade studying U.S. immigration history, and he鈥檚 working on a book about the forces that push people into leaving their home countries and immigrating, including the United States鈥 influence. Read MoreSep 30, 2015