A&S College Core marks first year of redefining undergraduate experience
Creating a shared academic experience for students. Equipping students with the fundamental capacities to succeed in today’s world. Strengthening faculty collaboration across disciplines. These are among the many goals that the A&S College Core, the College of Arts and Science’s general education curriculum, accomplished in its first year.Read More
RESEARCH SPARKS
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings: Supporting multilingual learners, exploring technology’s impact
Ana Christina da Silva Iddings will never forget the day that she—as a Brazilian teenager who did not speak English—flew by herself to Las Vegas. Her parents sent her there from Brazil to live with relatives she had never met. Da Silva Iddings’ life-changing experiences in Vegas, where she became fluent in English and worked in daycare, set her on a path to help multilingual children who are simultaneously learning English as they learn other subjects in the classroom.Read More
RESEARCH
Unlocking the past: New method helps gain insights into old tissues
A new method pioneered by the lab of Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Ken Lau is poised to make previously inaccessible medical knowledge that has been locked away in old patient samples newly accessible to scientists.Read More
New ways to treat chronic pain. Creating a “person-centered” judicial system. Challenging outdated ideas about U.S. security. Hear about these and more in a special “Highlights of Season 1” episode of the Quantum Potential podcast.
Science: Magic or realism? Matthew Schrag, associate professor of neurology, is quoted.
The Nashville Ledger: VU researchers aim to speed Alzheimer’s care Amalia Peterson, assistant professor of neurology, is quoted. Research from You Chen, associate professor of biomedical informatics, Sean Huang, assistant professor of medicine, and Peterson is cited.
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