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MOUD Disparities
Aug. 24, 2021—Medications for treatment of opioid use disorder are important for the health of mothers and their newborns – they can prevent overdose death and may prevent preterm birth. Yet, there are many barriers to obtaining treatment, especially for pregnant people and people relying on Medicaid insurance coverage. Laura Henkhaus, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at the...
Evaluating Mindfulness-Based Songwriting Intervention in Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 15, 2021—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Zoe Crawley to work in the laboratory of Dr. Miriam Lense in the Department of Otolaryngology (VUMC) during the summer of 2021. Zoe is a senior with major in Cognitive Studies and minors in English: Creative Writing and Quantitative Methods. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to analyze preliminary data...
Third Cohort of Summer Research Fellows Welcomed
Jun. 15, 2021—
Data Science Institute welcomes 18 undergraduate fellows for virtual summer research
Jun. 5, 2020—On Monday, June 1st the Data Science Institute (DSI) welcomed its second cohort of Summer Research fellows. The summer research program (DSI – SRP) engages students who are interested in carrying out data-science-related research with a Vanderbilt faculty member and integrates them into the institute’s community of data science scholars. This year the program will...
A Bioinformatic Analysis of Gene Expression Networks in Genetic – and Diet – Manipulated Mice (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2019—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Nilai Vemula to work in the laboratory of Professor Mark Magnuson in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics during the summer of 2019. Nilai anticipates graduating in 2022 with a major in Physics. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to better understand the divergent effects of metabolic stress on...
Predicting Next Day Discharge via Electronic Health Record Audit Logs (DSI-SRP)
Aug. 1, 2019—This DSI-SRP fellowship funded Xinmeng Zhang to work in the laboratory of Professor You Chen in the Department of Biomedical Informatics during the summer of 2019. Xinmeng anticipates graduating in 2022 and is majoring in Computer Science. The project funded by this fellowship aimed to understand the intersection between electronic health records (EHR) and clinicians’...