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1. Watch: The Art and Science of Rich Internet Applications

Watch video of a Nov. 20 talk, "The Art and Science of Rich Internet Applications," by Ben Stucki, an independent Flex developer and consultant with a background in standards-based web development.

2. Watch: VUCast Thanksgiving Style

A holiday shopping tip you need to remember. We know it's early but, you will thank us. It's VUCast time. (5:51)

3. Vanderbilt doctoral student wins national award

Woodrow "Woody" Lucas, a doctoral student at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management, was one of only two recipients of a Ph.D. Trailblazer Award for 2009 from the National Black MBA Association at the annual meeting in New Orleans.

4. Vanderbilt professor part of winning team for best practitioner presentation

Bruce Cooil, The Dean Samuel B. and Evelyn R. Richmond Professor of Management, is co-author of a paper that won the Best Practitioner Presentation Award at the 2009 Frontiers in Service Conference held recently in Honolulu.

5. Benbow wins national award for work with gifted children

Camilla Benbow, dean of Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, received the National Association for Gifted Children's 2009 Presidential Award at the group's annual convention in St. Louis, which was held Nov. 5-8.

6. "Kite Runner" author to speak during Vanderbilt University’s Commencement

Khaled Hosseini, author of bestselling books The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, will receive Vanderbilt University's prestigious Nichols-Chancellor's Medal in May 2010 when he will address graduating seniors and their families during Senior Day.

7. Clashing worldviews a key to understanding voter polarization, VU professor says

The recent vote in Congress on health care reform - with only one Republican lawmaker voting yes - provides more evidence of the growing polarization between the parties and the fundamentally different understandings of right and wrong that continue to pull the two major political parties further apart, according to Vanderbilt University political scientist Marc Hetherington.

8. New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire.

9. TIPSHEET: Vanderbilt professors available as sources for holiday shopping articles

Marketing experts at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management are available as sources for holiday shopping stories on a range of topics from the impact of social networking on consumer decision-making to marketing radically new products.

10. Watch: "Bollywood's India"

Watch video of a Nov. 13 talk by Rachel Dwyer - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London - part of ISSS International Education Week.