New research from Vanderbilt brings us one step closer to reducing the threat of what’s considered the most prevalent life-threatening disease in the world – malaria. Biological sciences star researcher Larry Zwiebel and his team have honed in on special receptors they believe mosquitos use to smell and find their victims, in other words, us. [...]
Entries from August 2007
August 29, 2007
Welcome back!
Classes start today and we enter another academic year at Vanderbilt University. I was hoping to wax poetic today about loving the ebb and flow of activity at a university, the different seasons each marked with their own joys and challenges, the excitement that comes to campus as the students return and the new freshmen [...]
August 28, 2007
New VUCast video
Our talented team has produced the second VUCast newscast, reporting on the new portal markets, the heat wave, employee celebration, new MS research and a bit more. There’s even a cameo appearance by this blogger. Take a gander.
August 23, 2007
When is a viral “infection” a good thing?
When it happens to one of your videos on YouTube. Views of our bionic arm video have been going through the roof this week, up from a couple hundred last week to 6,300 today. The story on Exploration has been viewed over 23,000 times this week. Join the party.
August 21, 2007
Rockets! Bionics! Revolution!
I could not resist the chance to use three of my favorite words in a headline – how often does that happen? Vanderbilt engineer Michael Goldfarb’s research has resulted in something that involves all three – a prosethetic arm powered with a miniature rocket motor that is the closest thing yet to a real bionic [...]
August 17, 2007
Rankings are in
USNWR released their best colleges report today – minor jostling amongst the usual suspects. We’re No. 19 this year, and The Commons, our new first-year experience set to launch in 08-09, was named a “Program to Look For.” I’ll say – I had a chance to visit and nosh at The Commons’ super deluxe new [...]
August 16, 2007
Vandy video cast
Check out a most excellent, fun and exciting new video feature on VUCast – our very own newscast. Anchored by the lovely and talented Amy Wolf, produced by the also lovely and talented Emily Pearce and the (okay, maybe handsome instead of lovely) Patrick Slattery. We hope to be producing these on at the very [...]
August 15, 2007
Corbin staying!
Pardon the exclamation point, but I am delighted by this development. The news came like a nice cool breath of fresh air in this sweltering August, when we found out today that our beloved baseball coach, Tim Corbin, turned down yet another suitor and is staying at Vanderbilt. Get the scoop.
August 10, 2007
The future is now
No Vanderbilt connection to this item – yet – but I still wanted to share. Harry Potter fans out there will be familiar with the moving pictures that grace the wizarding world’s newspaper. Sony has revealed that such technology is no fantasy with their new flexible e-paper video display. Video, moving and bending, on “paper.” [...]
August 7, 2007
Vanderbilt on iTunes U for all the world to see
Now you no longer have to be in the know to know Vanderbilt is on iTunes U – Apple has added us to the list of participating universities in the music store. Copy and paste itms://deimos3.apple.com/indigo/main/main.xml into your browser to take a look (you need iTunes for this link to work). We have a nice [...]
