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  • Private Governance Approaches to Climate Change

    Private Governance Approaches to Climate Change

    Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Climate change is an ideologically polarizing issue both domestically and internationally. Drawing on research in law, social psychology, economics and behavioral science, our interdisciplinary research team has developed a novel approach that bypasses the climate gridlock by focusing on non-government solutions. Read More

    Aug. 8, 2015

  • Trans-Institutional Collaborative to Improve Chronic Disease in Children and Their Families in Underserved Settings

    Trans-Institutional Collaborative to Improve Chronic Disease in Children and Their Families in Underserved Settings

    Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) Asthma and sickle cell disease are common in African-American children with both contributing to significant childhood health disparity. The main problem in improving care for one of the most vulnerable pediatric populations is closing the gap between well-established evidence and practical… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2015

  • Program for Bioeffector Discovery

    Program for Bioeffector Discovery

    Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Initiative Award (ViA) More than half of the drugs introduced in the last thirty years are either natural products or compounds based on natural products. Unfortunately, the discovery of biologically active natural products has slowed dramatically in recent years because of the limitation of… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2015

  • A Trans-institutional Big Data Architecture at Vanderbilt

    A Trans-institutional Big Data Architecture at Vanderbilt

    Program Overview Type: Vanderbilt Reinvestment Award (VRA) Effectively managing and analyzing the flood of data being generated in all areas of education and research is one of the major challenges for universities in the 21st century.The Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) seeks to develop a… Read More

    Aug. 8, 2015