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Since World War II, Vanderbilt Medical Center has undergone numerous expansions facilitated by federal grants, an innovative faculty, and the progressive evolution of subspecialization in both clinical disciplines and basic sciences. Construction on the Learned Laboratories, which allowed additional space for graduate work, was begun in 1952 and completed in 1960. A circular hospital wing was added in 1962. The Joe and Howard Werthan Building, a new library, and laboratory space were built on Twenty-first Avenue South. In 1977 Rudolph Light Hall was completed on the south side of Garland Avenue to provide classroom and laboratory space for medical students.
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Vanderbilt's research record is blemished... by a study the university conducted on the effects of iron metabolism during pregnancy in the 1940s. Between 1945 and 1949, approximately 800 pregnant women were given without their knowledge an injection of radioactive iron. The injections were later suspected to be the cause of death for some of the children who were being carried in utero at the time.[22] In 1998, the university settled a class action lawsuit with the mothers and surviving children for $10.3 million.[23]
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Dr. Andreas Thom from the University of Goettingen will give a lecture series entitled "L2-Betti numbers for von Neumann algebras" at the Vanderbilt math department. The lectures will be accessible to graduate students. Click here for more details.
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As a part of their first act together as a class, each Vanderbilt class meets together at the Honor Code Signing Ceremony, where every member of the class pledges their honor and signs the code. The signature pages are then hung in the Student Center. The ceremony is one of only two occasions where a class will be congregated in a single place at the same time (the other being Commencement).
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Researchers, led by William O. Cooper, M.D., M.P.H., of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, examined data gathered from the Tennessee Medicaid program on 29,507 infants born between 1985 and 2000. Of the total study population, 209 infants were identified by researchers as having been exposed to ACE inhibitors during the first trimester, 202 had comparable exposure to other antihypertensive medications, and 29,096 had no maternal use of antihypertensive drugs.
Before the Vanderbilt study, there were a number of different theories about how OPCs space themselves along axons. One was that the axons themselves produce some kind of positional cues that the OPCs follow. Another was that the OPCs sense each other and adjust their position accordingly: a mechanism somewhat similar to that which soldiers on the parade ground use to align a formation by extending their right arm and adjusting their position until their outstretched fingers touch the shoulder of the person on the right.
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