VU BreakThru

Welcome to Hub, a mobile application designed for idea-sharing and collaboration

Written by Vanderbilt senior Meredith Mattlin, who is a double major in Medicine, Health & Society and Sociology This video is a quick demo and walkthrough of Hub, an in-progress app designed for idea-sharing and collaboration. Hub is responding to the need for a digital meeting place that fosters academic and project-based idea creation and collaboration…

Posted by anderc8 on January 17, 2017 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

Candid shot taken of us (right to left: Julie McKnight (UT), me, and Prof. Ayers) discussing our next move while observing the data from an ongoing measurement. Each measurement takes at least 40 minutes, excluding set up and break down time. (Photo Credit: Marie English (UT))

Methane Rising: A brief description of how we measured escaped methane at hydraulically fractured gas wells

Written by Vanderbilt Ph.D. student Moyo Ajayi During the beginning of the 21st century, oil and gas producers have tapped into previously uneconomical sources of natural gas using the controversial method of high volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF). HVHF involves injecting highly-pressurized fluid into impermeable rocks to fracture them and release natural gas. Use of HVHF…

Posted by anderc8 on January 11, 2017 in Discovery Grants, News

Program for Music, Mind and Society brings together researchers to examine how and why music affects us

PhD Candidate Examines Link Between Music Making and Kindness Written by Sara L. Beck, PhD Candidate in Psychological Sciences and Graduate Assistant to the Program for Music, Mind, & Society Have you ever felt a shiver singing along with a group of people – around a campfire, in a place of worship, or even in…

Posted by anderc8 on January 6, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

Introducing the Pre3 Initiative

Written by Vanderbilt School of Medicine professor David Aronoff The Vanderbilt Pre3 Initiative (Preventing adverse Pregnancy outcomes and Prematurity) is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and learners with a shared interest in reducing the burden of preterm birth and other adverse pregnancy outcomes through discovery, innovation, implementation, and education. Why does Vanderbilt need to be…

Posted by anderc8 on January 6, 2017 in News, TIPs 2015

Attending to the Forgotten

Written by Vanderbilt Divinity School professor Graham Reside I teach at Vanderbilt Divinity School, in the area of Ethics and Society. I grew up under conditions of relative privilege, a white guy from a middle class background. As a young college student, I had a friend who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend in a…

Posted by anderc8 on January 5, 2017 in Justice, Mercy and Mass Incarceration, News

Introducing ‘The Nation’s Health: From Policy to Practice’

Written by Vanderbilt MHS Professor Tara McKay Gilbert and I arrived at Vanderbilt in 2015, and over the past 18 months we have pushed each other to become the interdisciplinary scholar and teacher that we both want to be. To this end, we have collaborated on multiple grant proposals including a recently funded award led…

Posted by anderc8 on January 3, 2017 in News, The Nation's Health

Dr. Silver demonstrates on Sirui how the application might be used in a physical exam process. This was a pivotal moment in the design process and critical for creating the final workflow of the app.

Students develop mobile application aimed at improving malnutrition screening at VUMC

Blog post written by Sirui Ma, a Vanderbilt student enrolled in UNIV 3278 (Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Cloud Computing) This semester, as part of the inaugural class of UNIV 3278 Tackling Big Questions with Mobile Computing, I have been leading a team of software engineers to develop a mobile application to improve malnutrition screening…

Posted by anderc8 on December 19, 2016 in Mobile Cloud Computing, News

Metro Archives Site Visit

In September, the students of Historic Black Nashville visited the Metro Archives at the Nashville Public Library in downtown Nashville to conduct immersive research by reviewing texts, newspapers and other documents from the 1800s. A sampling of student-penned blog posts can be found below. Kamala Varma Freshman Major undeclared Many of the slave-related documents [at the Metro…

Posted by anderc8 on December 7, 2016 in Historic Black Nashville, News

Fort Negley Site Visit

In October, the students of Historic Black Nashville visited Fort Negley to learn about the social, political and military forces central to Nashville and Middle Tennessee during the Civil War. Two student-penned blog posts can be found below. Leoncia K. Gillespie Freshman Biology major While struggling to read through manuscripts and other primary documents is an example of analyzing tangible…

Posted by anderc8 on December 6, 2016 in Historic Black Nashville, News

Ancient Maya Agriculture at Tamarindito, Guatemala

Using Research Scholar Grant funding, Anthropology professor Markus Eberl studied economic wealth and sociopolitical power codevelop over time at the ancient Maya capital of Tamarindito. Ancient Maya subsistence rested on maize, beans and squash that were raised in a mixture of extensive and intensive techniques. Focusing on terraces, Prof. Eberl initiated an archaeological project at the site…

Posted by anderc8 on November 15, 2016 in News, Research Scholar Grants