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VUCast: A music lesson to be remembered

Title:	VUCast: A music lesson to be remembered
Author:	Wolf, Amy
Description:	Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP4 file: "Video @ Vanderbilt - Videos - - VUCast: A music lesson to be remembered." By Vanderbilt University News Service. Amy Wolf hosts and reports on Vanderbilt researcher David Zald's work on the psychology of psychopaths, including the function of dopamine. She also reports that Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt professor of astronomy and the founder of the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, testified to a Congressional panel on how to get minority students into science, technology, engineering and math professions. Wolf announces the online availability of a podcast by Juan Floyd-Thomas, Associate Professor of Black Church Studies at Vanderbilt's Divinity School, on the importance of Bob Marley in politics and religion. Vanderbilt alumnus and unusual classical musician Daniel Bernard Roumain, a.k.a. DBR, is profiled; he is at Vanderbilt for a year as visiting professor of composition. His work with students at W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville is featured; he, W.O. Smith teacher Paul Epp, and student Isaiah Fanning speak. Roumain, who is of Haitian-American heritage, talks about his emotional reaction to the recent earthquake in Haiti.
Subject:	News stories VUCast Stassun, Keivan Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program Science careers DBR W.O. Smith Music School Fanning, Isaiah
LCSH Subject:	Zald, David H. Psychopaths Antisocial personality disorders Dopamine Minorities -- Education, Higher African Americans -- Education, Higher Marley, Bob Floyd-Thomas, Juan Marcial Roumain, Daniel Bernard Blair School of Music Music -- Instruction and study Epp, Paul, musician Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1803/4494
Date:	2010-04-02