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• Vanderbilt is big winner after reforms

  - 2007-03-08

  NASHVILLE -- Academic pride has made sports different at Vanderbilt University. Consider the graffiti on the wall of a men's bathroom stall at McGugin Center, the main athletics building. There's an inspirational quote from Gandhi. Right next to that, someone has chosen to pass his private...

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• Vanderbilt creates website to defend Gordon Gee

  - 2006-11-01

  A COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW, conducted by Vanderbilt University (Tenn.) and the media, revealed some interesting facts: renowned Chancellor Gordon Gee, 62, earns dose to $1.4 million annually; he has spent as much as $700,000 more on parties and a personal chef at his university mansion; the aforementioned mansion, Braeburn, has...

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• Vanderbilt looks to partnerships.

  - 2006-03-21

  Byline: Catherine Armitage Mar 21, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Vanderbilt University aims to build a new kind of strategic partnership - one that actually...

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• Automatic External Defibrillator Saves Young Athlete's Life; Davis Nwankwo Released From Hospital.

  - 2006-03-09

  Byline: Vanderbilt Medical Center NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 9 AScribe Newswire -- The quick actions of an athletic trainer and the use of an automated external defibrillator AED saved the life of Vanderbilt basketball student-athlete Davis Nwankwo (Nah-WONK-wo), said the team physician. ...

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• Vanderbilt Experts Available to Discuss Math And Science Education And Research

  - 2006-02-27

  NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Educators and researchers have reacted with both enthusiasm and skepticism to President Bush's State of the Union call to improve America's competitiveness in math and science. Vanderbilt education and science experts are available to discuss what it will take to stop the United...

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• Vanderbilt Plans Groundbreaking Ph.D. in Law and Economics; Brings in Harvard Professors Viscusi, Hersch to Lead Program.

  - 2006-01-24

  Byline: Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 24 AScribe Newswire -- W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch, law and economics scholars at Harvard Law School, will join the Vanderbilt University faculty later this year as the law school launches the first program of its kind...

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• Vanderbilt obtains United States patent.(for EphB screening method)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-04-01

  Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) has patented a method for screening an EphB receptor or an EphB receptor-binding ligand for the ability to promote a selected biological activity when in multimeric form. The invention also provides methods for initiating, promoting, directing, or inhibiting biological activities that involve...

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• No ha-ha's over YaYa's: Vanderbilt U learns lesson in trademark law

  - 2002-03-11

  NASHVILLE, TENN. -- What's in a name? Well, pride of ownership, for one thing, as Vanderbilt University found out to its chagrin last month. The university's Dining Services department was instructed to change the name of its YaYa's Mediterranean Cuisine because a Michigan-based restaurant company has trademarked the name...

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