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...Crimson reported. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranked first in terms of black student enrollment for the sixth time in the last eight years, with black students making up 12.3 percent of its freshman class last year. Stanford, Duke, Columbia, and Vanderbilt universities ranked second, third, and fourth, respectively. Following Harvard in the black student yield category were MIT with a yield of 66.4 percent and Stanford University with a yield of 61.4 percent. \ “We are obviously very pleased to have such a high yield,” William R. Fitzsimmons...
...impossible, but it would take a lot more research to tease out its true significance. Meanwhile, it's hard to say just what those correlations measure. "How do you know, for instance, that it's not mold or mildew in the counties that have a lot of rain?" says Vanderbilt University geneticist Pat Levitt. How do you know, for that matter, that as counties get more cable access, they don't also get more pediatricians scanning for autism? Easterbrook, although intrigued by the study, concedes that it could be indoor-air quality rather than television that exerts an influence. Moreover...
...week also brought a more definitive--though less splashy--finding on the causes of autism, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. A team led by Vanderbilt's Levitt found that a fairly common gene variation--one that's present in 47% of the population--is associated with an increased risk of autism. People with two copies of the gene have twice the average risk of autism. Those with one copy face a slightly increased risk. The gene is intriguing because it codes for a protein that's active not only in the brain--the organ most...
...this strange piece of statistical derring-do? It's not impossible, but it would take a lot more research to tease out its true significance. Meanwhile, it's hard to say just what these correlations measure. "You have to be very definitive about what you are looking at," says Vanderbilt University geneticist Pat Levitt. "How do you know, for instance, that it's not mold or mildew in the counties that have a lot of rain?" How do you know, for that matter, that as counties get more cable access, they don't also get more pediatricians scanning for autism...
...aura of JFK pervade the building: His visage graces everything from walls to brochures to computer screens. When I attended the IOP’s freshman welcome event back in September 2003, we were shown a video of Kennedy’s famous 1963 commencement address at Vanderbilt, in which he eloquently urged students to enter politics.Although it is a carefully nonpartisan organization, the IOP’s existence rests on certain premises commonly associated with JFK and the youthful, optimistic attitude of his era: that public service is a noble calling; that government can and should be a force...