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  by Wayne Wood Lori Rolando, MD, MPH, has transitioned into a new role as executive director of Vanderbilt Health and Wellness. In this new role, she will oversee Occupational Health, Health Plus and Work/Life Connections-EAP. Rolando has been at Vanderbilt for 15 years and, in her previous role as... Read more »

Q: How do I access and log into Workday?  A: Workday is a cloud-based system, so it is available from any Internet browser. The URL to access Workday is www.myworkday.com/vumc/login.htmld. Employees should bookmark this URL for future use. Employees who use a VUMC IT-managed clinical or administrative workstation can also... Read more »

The latest phase of the 15-level Link Building project is complete. As of this past weekend, several patient friendly improvements to traffic flow around and within the Central Garage have gone into effect. On-site signage and additional traffic officers at key intersections, will help guide visitors and members of the... Read more »

William Schaffner, MD, professor of Preventive Medicine, continues to be one of the most in-demand sources about RSV, COVID-19, influenza and other subjects in the news. Among the news organizations he has spoken with recently: ABC News, Lead Stories, Washington Post, Inverse, and HealthDay News via U.S. News and World... Read more »

Grammy Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee, Sheryl Crow, played with longtime friend and guitar player, Tim Smith, at Langford Auditorium for the first Shade Tree Clinic “Concert for a Cause” benefit show on Feb.15. Organized by student co-chairs Gabrielle Lyons (MS4) and Kylie Fletcher (MS3),... Read more »

Vanderbilt was part of a multi-center team that resurrected a “dead antibody” to reveal the mysteries of cytochrome c, a versatile protein that is an essential part of the cell’s energy-generating capacity, and of life itself.... Read more »

Vanderbilt's multispecialty expertise helped a seemingly healthy 54-year-old man who needed major heart procedures get back to the gym and live a healthy life.... Read more »

Tadashi Inagami, PhD, DSc, Vanderbilt University Professor of Biochemistry, emeritus, who helped characterize the biochemical basis for hypertension, heart failure and vascular disease, died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 13 after a brief illness. He was 92.... Read more »

P.U.N.T Pediatric Cancer Collaborative, along with Buffalo Bills football player Dawson Knox, recently presented Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt with a gift of “Luke’s Locker” in memory of his brother.... Read more »

A Vanderbilt study found that prostate cancer polygenic risk score has limited utility for enhancing prostate cancer screening.... Read more »

Nashville pianist Ed Bazel, founder of The River of Calm music channel, recently played for patients in the waiting room of the Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.... Read more »

Vanderbilt's Cathy Eng, MD, stressed the need for more patient participation and better funding for clinical trials to improve colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes during the White House Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Forum.... Read more »

A new report by the Blue Ridge Academic Health Group makes recommendations for the opportunities and challenges that the ongoing digital technology revolution brings to academic health centers.... Read more »

Vanderbilt's Alex Jahangir, MD, recently received the William W. Tipton Jr., MD Leadership Award at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting.... Read more »

To keep warming below levels that scientists say will bring extreme climate impacts, nations must act quickly to make deep cuts in carbon emissions, according to the final installment of the IPCC’s latest climate report... Read more »

Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them... Read more »

In Key Largo, Fla., scientists are looking to protect endangered native rodents and slow the invasion of massive Burmese pythons... Read more »

Spring’s burst of brightness comes before chloroplasts grow and mature... Read more »

Decades of failed attempts have given way to several successful vaccines and treatments for the respiratory disease RSV... Read more »

Hairiness is the perfect way to demonstrate the math underlying the “pigeonhole principle,” first conceived in 1622... Read more »

In the inaugural episode of Cosmos, Quickly, we blast off with Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno of the Space Force, who is charged with protecting our space in space, particularly from Russia and China.... Read more »

Venture capitalists and start-ups don’t mind losing money, but dealing with a bank run is a whole different story... Read more »

Genetic sequences show evidence of raccoon dogs and other animals at the Wuhan market sites where SARS-CoV-2 was found in early 2020, adding to evidence of a natural spillover event... Read more »

An MQ-9 Reaper drone is sitting at the bottom of the Black Sea. Will the U.S. or Russia recover it?... Read more »

Before exploding as supernovae, massive Wolf-Rayet stars spew gas and dust into space, seeding the formation of future stellar and planetary systems... Read more »

Satellites that can better predict extreme weather and location-based text messaging systems can warn at-risk communities of storms and other climate-related threats to help save lives, the U.N. says... Read more »

The tech industry is rushing headlong into the chatbot gold rush. We need prompt, focused regulation that keeps pace... Read more »

Florida beaches are already receiving hefty batches of brown seaweed, kicking off a year that could break records... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00786-8I learnt the benefits of reaching out through e-mail while I was a student, now I receive many cold e-mails myself. Here’s how to write a good one.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00789-5Political endorsements might not always win hearts and minds, but when candidates threaten a retreat from reason, science must speak out.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00820-9East Palestine residents look to independent researchers to fill gaps left by authorities.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00792-wBiochemist who invented recombinant DNA technology.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00795-7Luis Fonseca leads research into micro-, nano- and photonic chip technologies that could kill cancer cells, protect the environment and facilitate space research.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00799-3In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to lose confidence in Nature and in US scientists generally.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00794-8The sequencing of two bacterial species created a legacy that could be at risk without further investment, warn the region’s genomic leaders.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05950-8Enantioconvergent Cu-catalyzed N-alkylation of aliphatic amines... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 20 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05958-0Publisher Correction: H3K4me3 regulates RNA polymerase II promoter-proximal pause-release... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00822-7The EPA has proposed a strict PFAS limit, but it will take money and innovative technologies to implement the plan.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00839-yGPT-4 has stunned people with its ability to generate human-like text and images from almost any prompt. Plus, the first 3D map of the odour receptor that lets us smell cheese, and how stem cells make a brain.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00831-6Editors threaten to resign over ‘no-reject’ model that others see as the future of research journals.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00819-2A key aim of Pieter Roelfsema’s research is to develop a device to restore rudimentary eyesight to people whose optic nerve has died.... Read more »

Nature, Published online: 17 March 2023; doi:10.1038/d41586-023-00787-7Andrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.... Read more »

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 120, Issue 11, March 2023. <br/>... Read more »

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University of Michigan professor Earl Lewis, founding director of the Center for Social Solutions, will be awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Joe Biden during a White House ceremony March 21. The National Humanities Medal, inaugurated in 1997, honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation's understanding... Read more »

President Joe Biden has issued the first veto of his term. He vetoed a Congressional resolution to nullify a Department of Labor regulation on the investment of retirement plan assets. Dana Muir, a business law professor at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business with expertise in the fields of... Read more »

Victor Chan-Cheng Chang enjoyed a successful, decades-long career in finance after graduating from the University of Michigan in 1944 with a master of arts in economics.... Read more »

A transformative development in 3D concrete printing promises innovation in the construction industry—with better and more environmentally friendly structures coming at a lower cost, say researchers at the University of Michigan. Architect Mania Aghaei Meibodi and researchers Alireza Bayramvand and Yuxin Lin of the DART lab at U-M's Taubman College... Read more »

With more than half of the world’s population active on social media networks, user-generated data has proved to be fertile ground for social scientists who study attitudes about the environment and sustainability.... Read more »

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 7 p.m. March 21, 2023 EVENT: Ford School Forum on the Economy This annual forum brings together Ford School of Public Policy economists for a discussion of the current state of the U.S. economy. From inflation to the labor market, faculty experts reflect on the most crucial... Read more »

EPA officials have proposed the first federal limits on PFAS levels in drinking water. University of Michigan experts are available to comment.... Read more »

The 2022-23 school year at the University of Michigan marks 50 years since the passing of Title IX, which allowed women to join the Michigan Marching Band. Today, 42% of the MMB identify as women, and the band is led by Rachel Zhang, the fourth female drum major in the... Read more »

Ninety years after the Home Owners' Loan Corporation enacted the discriminatory practice of color-coding neighborhoods by desirability for mortgage lenders, redlined neighborhoods—areas inhabited largely by Black families—continue to suffer poorer health than greenlined, majority-white neighborhoods, which tend to flourish healthwise and financially. These findings and persisting health and economic inequities... Read more »

There's been a well-documented shift toward earlier springtime flowering in many plants as the world warms. The trend alarms biologists because it has the potential to disrupt carefully choreographed interactions between plants and the creatures—butterflies, bees, birds, bats and others—that pollinate them.... Read more »

A strong majority of Michigan local government leaders feel that good governance includes promoting environmental sustainability and "being green," according to a survey of nearly 1,400 leaders across the state.... Read more »

Micron-sized "bow ties," self-assembled from nanoparticles, form a variety of different curling shapes that can be precisely controlled, a research team led by the University of Michigan has shown. The development opens the way for easily producing materials that interact with twisted light, providing new tools for machine vision and... Read more »

University of Michigan experts can discuss the fall of Silicon Valley Bank, the federal takeover of that and another bank and what it all means for the financial industry and consumers.... Read more »

The University of Michigan Prison Creative Arts Project will unveil its 27th annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons, one of the world's largest shows of its kind.... Read more »

Papers, news, and press releases in bio+tech.... Read more »

Odors, magnetic fields, and even a mouse's siblings can all impact science.... Read more »

Nano-scale probes to explore the universe, gene-editing for the heart, catalog of new papers.... Read more »

Cells are so dense, it’s a wonder they work at all.... Read more »

A deep dive on woolly mammoth resurrection.... Read more »

AI breaks from proteins. Neurotech ignition. Bio+tech papers from the last month.... Read more »

Answers to “Is it edible?” and other burning questions.... Read more »

Cells with synthetic genomes could build almost anything. Managing biosecurity risks is another story.... Read more »

The hype and possibilities of machines that dream of Nobels.... Read more »

Genetic engineering as a foundational technology.... Read more »

I’m ending the weekly newsletter to make time for deeper pieces.... Read more »

Notable papers from the last year, according to some guy on the internet.... Read more »

Why you shouldn't always play with DNA.... Read more »

Read to the end for ideas to speed up science.... Read more »

A plan to create a citizens’ assembly in Southampton has been announced by City Council and University experts as part of efforts to tackle climate change and co-design a road to net-zero with nearby residents and businesses.... Read more »

A new report featuring research from the University of Southampton says rural homelessness is on the rise and has been worsened by the pandemic and the cost-of-living-crisis.... Read more »

Peanut allergy could plummet by 77 percent if peanut products were added to all babies’ diets at four to six months of age, according to new research led by the University of Southampton, Kings College London, and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).... Read more »

Colleagues from across the University are participating in next month’s ABP Southampton Marathon, running distances from 5km to full marathon, and raising money for a range of charitable causes close to their hearts.... Read more »

Female business leaders from across the South joined forces at an event co-led by the University of Southampton Business School, to mark this year’s International Women’s Day.... Read more »

Southampton researchers have created a potentially life-saving test that can quickly find out which antibiotics will and won’t work for treating a bacterial infection.... Read more »

A HISTORIC pledge to drive economic growth and tackle social challenges in South Hampshire has been made by university leaders and councillors from the region.... Read more »

A new £1.6 million innovation hub led by the University of Southampton has been tasked with transforming the nutritional quality of food and drink sold in the UK. It will bring together leading researchers, industry experts and other stakeholders to develop more healthy eating options for consumers.... Read more »

University of Southampton researchers are to lead a new landmark study to understand immune responses to COVID-19 vaccination.... Read more »

Social science researchers at the University of Southampton have been awarded a major funding boost to help speed up the impact of their research on society and the economy.... Read more »

The University of Southampton is the new Culture Partner for the hugely popular ABP Southampton Marathon, which attracts 10,000 runners into the city and three times that number including their friends and family, and people lining the route.... Read more »

Professor Saul Faust has received his OBE for COVID-19 vaccine research. He was presented the honour by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London.... Read more »

A team of researchers led by the University of Southampton has shown light can be moved within a distance which is smaller than its own wavelength – a level of unprecedented precision.... Read more »

Football heroes from across the south are helping researchers looking into sports-related injuries in the largest UK study of its kind.... Read more »

Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden reflects on what might be causing the delayed progress of his cancer in 'New York Times' essay... Read more »

Johns Hopkins researchers found that algorithms trained on manufactured data can be even better than the real thing for important surgical tasks like X-ray image analysis... Read more »

They will have the opportunity to join the 811 Early Decision applicants previously admitted in the university's next incoming cohort of undergraduate students... Read more »

While advances in immunotherapy have dramatically improved cancer survival, unleashing the immune system can lead to a host of adverse reactions. How can patients pay less of a price?... Read more »

The JHU-CMU team is spearheading a Space Technology Research Institute to prevent failure in additively manufactured spaceflight materials... Read more »

The experiments on the International Space Station aim to inform researchers' understanding and treatment of age-related cardiac problems... Read more »

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides opportunities for students and recent graduates to pursue graduate study, research, and teach English around the world... Read more »

Persephone, which debuted at the Lighting of the Quads in December, is the product of first-ever collaboration between the Digital Media Center and Makerspace... Read more »

As a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, Jones will oversee ongoing efforts to document the history of the U.S. Supreme Court... Read more »

The Coronavirus Resource Center, a critical resource during the COVID-19 pandemic, ceased the collection and reporting of COVID-19 data on March 10... Read more »

Tuesday, March 14—Pi Day—is Johns Hopkins' seventh annual ONEHopkins Giving Day, an opportunity to show your support... Read more »

Researchers from Hopkins and Cambridge map the brain of a baby fruit fly, a landmark achievement that brings scientists closer to true understanding of the mechanism of thought... Read more »

Hamilton Goss, Hopkins' inaugural director of culinary innovation, reflects on the past year of Hopkins Dining's self-operated model... Read more »

The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can't, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two... Read more »

Some exoplanets have one side permanently facing their star while the other side is in perpetual darkness. The ring-shaped border between these permanent day and…... Read more »

American researchers have determined that Venus may have had oceans and lakes up to 3 billion years ago, but much shallower than those on Earth.…... Read more »

The region that straddles the dividing line between the day and night sides of star-locked exoplanets has unique potential to support life, a new study…... Read more »

New research suggests that hypervelocity stars originated in the center of the Milky Way, as a result of the interaction of a binary star and…... Read more »

Now researchers from the Center for Advanced Scientific Research at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC), in the United States, publish in the journal ‘Nature…... Read more »

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883 Orionis. This water carries a…... Read more »

Scientists have discovered a galaxy in which star formation has stopped. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped. this is what we know GS-9209 is…... Read more »

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Torino/V. Missaglia et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI & International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: NASA/ESA/STScI; Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF This image shows a galaxy called…... Read more »

Astronomers report the discovery of two new exoplanets orbiting a bright Sun-like star about 175 light-years away. The newly discovered alien worlds, designated HIP 104045…... Read more »

A newly developed integrated software application combines interactive and automated coloring techniques with deep learning technology. The application is able to generate color to black and white movies automatically.... Read more »

Young children encode social cues according to context, then process the social stimuli to form a representation of the current social situation. Once the action values are compared, children then chose to perform the optimal action that has the highest value.... Read more »

A newly developed head-worn device allows users with movement disorders and paralysis to better control mobile manipulators, thus improving quality of life and increasing personal autonomy.... Read more »

Early overnutrition rewires brain development to crave unhealthy food and increases the risk for obesity late in life in children born to mothers who were overweight during pregnancy.... Read more »

The psychedelic compound DMT (Dimethyltryptamine) increases connectivity across the brain, allowing for greater communication between different areas and networks. The brain changes are most prominent in brain areas linked to higher functioning, such as imagination.... Read more »

Mapping the hierarchies and the incoherence within a network system, including neural networks, genes, and even social networks, can help estimate the point at which the network becomes strongly connected.... Read more »

Study identifies an intestinal immune cell that impacts the gut microbiome, affecting brain functions linked to depression and stress.... Read more »

When it comes to answering people's questions about cancer, especially regarding myths and misconceptions, ChatGPT is 97% accurate in providing the correct information. The AI is so accurate, test subjects were unaware whether the answers came from ChatGPT or the National Cancer Institute.... Read more »

While scores for verbal reasoning and matrix reasoning have decreased, scores for spatial reasoning have improved, researchers report.... Read more »

A new study identified sex-specific differences in neurodevelopment and health-related disorders in children who were exposed to alcohol while in the womb. Prenatal alcohol exposure increased female children's risk of developing depression and anxiety, while in males, prenatal alcohol exposure increased the risk of ADHD, conduct disorders, and oppositional defiance... Read more »

Exercise helps to improve the severity of the movement-related symptoms and the overall well-being of those suffering from Parkinson's disease.... Read more »

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