In the News July 2011
Week ending Friday, July 29
- Tennessean: Vanderbilt re-accredited as a CEO Cancer Gold Standard employer for 2011
- Nashville Business Journal: Could an app a day help keep the doctor away?
- GlobeSt.com: Six questions for Transwestern’s Suzanne Lee
- Tennessean: Universities see rebound in donations
- Tennessean: Church joins push to promote science, math
- Tennessean: Young Nashville professionals win ‘Emerging Leader’ awards
- Nashville Scene: In Judge Carol Soloman’s volatile courtroom, critics say it’s the court that shows contempt
- USA Today: Cellphones don’t increase cancer risk in kids, study says
- Above the Law: Everybody whose state did not make a last minute change in bar exam grading, step forward. Not so fast, Tennessee
- ScienceNOW: Black hole collision may have set off fireworks in the Milky Way
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt performs trans-catheter heart value replacement
- Nashville Scene: Voyage to the bottom of the ballot
- New York Times: Room for Debate: The bias against the unemployed
- Wall Street Journal: Court backs treatment for Loughner
- U.S. News & World Report: Improving student teaching
- The Tennessean: Home-school notes: High school is perfect time for internships
- The Tennessean: Towne Centre Theatre set to launch ‘See How They Run’ Aug. 5
- Spiegel Online (Germany): The cold aggression of a mass murderer
- National Public Radio: Deaths could challenge Norway’s views on justice
- Inside Higher Ed: Opinion: Iron cage of accountability
- Wall Street Journal: New tests for newborns, and dilemmas for parents
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Get Schooled: The real STEM crisis in education: “We lose 25,000 math and science teachers each year.”
- Science Daily: In-state tuition for undocumented students not a partisan issue, study finds
- Audubon Magazine: Beware the elephant sneeze
- The Tennessean: In Session: “Hey, that Ben Griffin sounds good to me!”
- The Tennessean: Faiths are given common ground at Wisdom House
- The Tennessean: Family’s battle inspires gift
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Big Pharma finds a home on campus
- Academic Impressions: Preparing first-generation students for academic success
- Associated Press: Ann Patchett gives hometown the gift of books
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Some advocacy avoids Tennessee lobbying label
- The Tennessean: For legal experts, insanity plea on trial in Little Rock
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Action steps can close racial gap
- The Tennessean: In Frist exhibition, Vanderbilt photography professor explores the art of looking
- The Tennesean: Author: Only God can save U.S.
- The Tennessean: Classrooms could power Hickory Hollow rebirth
- City Paper: Chapter 16: American movement
- City Paper: Questions linger about teachers’ union morale after devastating legislative session
Week ending Friday, July 22
- Sky News (U.K.): U.S. heat wave kills 22 as temperatures top 50 C
- Daily Telegraph: U.S. bakes in heat wave.
- ABC.com: Toxic air linked to long-term damage for deployed troops
- The Tennessean: Man’s crusade changes abuse law
- Nashville Public Radio: Tennessee flower bounces back from extinction
- Nashville Business Journal: Metro Schools teachers participate in externships
- Associated Press: Afghan, Iraq deployment linked to lung ailment
- Reuters: Lung problems found in Iraq, Afghanistan veterans
- The Tennessean: Rare lung disease diagnosed in soldiers
- Times Higher Education (U.K.): Not here, not now, not that! Protest over art and culture in America
- U.S. News & World Report: Most Connected Hospitals: the list
- Inside Higher Ed: Reviewing (trashing?) student teaching
- National Public Radio: Rising costs complicate vaccine guidelines
- The Tennessean: Amazon plans to release e-textbooks for the Kindle
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Positive steps needed against health-care disparities
- Nashville Scene: Law and disorder
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt University Medical Center listed among top hospitals
- ABC.com: Migraines such as Michele Bachmann’s can be incapacitating
- Jamaica Observer: Survey finds Caribbean people worried about crime
- U.S. News & World Report: Best Hospitals
- Associated Press: Haslam summer tour taps voter interests, concerns
- Miller McCune: Exploring grays in a black-and-white world
- Colombia Reports: Colombia divided over raising taxes to fight inequality
- ABC.com: Many older people ignoring heat warnings
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Get Schooled: New study finds bonus pay “had no positive effects on student achievement at any grade level”
- The Tennessean: AP classrooms reveal a racial divide in Middle TN
- The Tennessean: State of stress
- Nashville Post: A $36 million mistake?
- New York Times: Opinion: Barbarous confinement
- Wall Street Journal: Book review: A statesman for the czar
- National Post (Canada): Despite role as ideal citizens, many view Mormonism with suspicion
- National Post (Canada): A religious spectacle.
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Business boot camps cater to students versed in Proust, not price points
- Associated Press: Assembly passed 154 bills in 3 days
- Huffington Post: As black unemployment climbs, healthy American eating declines
- Grantland: The Grantland Top Five: Video-game smack talk, D.C.-area private eyes, and the rest of the week in sports and culture
- Thom Hartmann Show: Atheists vs. Rick Perry over Christian prayer
- The Tennessean: Credit card deal brings TN schools nice payday
- The Tennessean: Save aggressively, start early, adviser says
- The Tennessean: Franklin sees number of blacks dwindle
- The Tennessean: Booklovers treasure neighborhood haunts
- The Tennessean: Heat often harder on young kids
- The Tennessean: Bellevue man’s hand saved after cottonmouth attack
Week ending Friday, July 15
- Reuters: Black men survive longer in prison than out: study
- SCOTUSblog: Opinion: Why the Court should uphold S.B.1070
- Americas Quarterly: Paying the price of equity in Colombia
- Education Week: Principals’ job reviews getting a fresh look
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Reforms unions opposed have made education better
- City Paper: VU study finds little difference in principals’ leadership practices across school types
- Nashville Business Journal: Companies refine image to stay fresh, reconnect
- Nature: Newborn screening: a spot of trouble
- Huffington Post: Dreams about drinking water: dream meanings explained
- National Jurist: Best law schools for standard of living
- Nashville Scene: You are so Nashvile if…
- National Geographic: Neptune discovered one year ago today
- Scientific American: Blood Lust: The early history of transfusion
- Education Week: Curriculum Matters: A farewell to cursive? Indiana ends requirement
- Dallas Morning News: Hispanic kids follow parents’ lead when it comes to exercising
- Diverse Arts Project: Interview with Alice Randall
- FedSoc Blog: New SCOTUScast: Wal-Mart v. Dukes
- The Tennessean: Online health-care deals are growing, and so are the warnings
- Washington Post: College Inc: The 12 best college financial aid policies
- Inside Higher Ed: Academic Minute: Race and the history of ‘passing’
- The Tennessean: Telemedicine improves stroke care at hospitals
- The Tennessean: Misery – Middle TN temperature hits 100 degrees
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Leaders don’t reflect values
- Nashville Business Journal: 2011 Health Care Heroes
- Nashville Scene: Where the parking lots have no name: You Tell Concerts talks U2
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Opinion: Faculty immobility in the new economy
- ABC.com: Super gonorrhea: Scientists discover antibiotic-resistant STD
- Washington Post: Column: The book that can help you leap barriers to financial success
- Orange County (Calif.) Register: Study: Illegal Mexican migration to United States in decline
- KGUN (Tucson, Ariz.): Better life in Mexico reducing illegal immigration.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Cheating scandal adds fuel to debate over high-stakes tests
- Houston Chronicle: For space center workers, launch is bittersweet
- Indianapolis Star: New standards don’t require students to learn cursive writing
- Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel: Cursive survived typewriter, why not latest keyboards?
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Hospital care, physician training at risk to cuts
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Struggle continues for free speech in campus forum
- The Tennessean: ‘Contributor’ pursues lawsuit against Brentwood
- The Tennessean: Insurers’ breast pump plan helps babies receive mom’s best medicine
- The Tennessean: Siblings of sick kids need their own TLC
- The Tennessean: Dangerous heat settles in over Middle Tennessee
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Vanderbilt research program for high schoolers is rewarding
- The Tennessean: Week ahead: Events offer opportunity for public to meet candidates
Week ending Friday, July 8
- MSNBC: A user’s guide to the debt debate
- Chicago Sun-Times: Editorial: Curfew no stand-in for mom and dad
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Lamar: The track star
- The Tennessean: Tennessee NASA veterans give space shuttle a final farewell
- Nashville Business Journal: New Vanderbilt MBA program draws interest through international studies
- Nashville Scene: Freedom for sale
- Nashville Scene: Farmers’ Market at Vanderbilt’s 100 Oaks complex
- CNN: Whatever happened to romance of space?
- CNN: Are you giving your doctor a headache?
- National Public Radio: On Point: Why has illegal immigration from Mexico declined?
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Madison surgeon’s letter bashes author of study linking spinal fusion product with infertility
- Science Daily: What causes brain cancer? Understanding glioblastoma at the genetic, molecular level
- BET: Is prison better for black men’s health?
- The Quincy (Mass.) Patriot-Ledger: Norwell mourns woman who died in fall from ‘safari bus’
- The Tennessean: Meet Metro candidates at Vanderbilt community picnic
- Nashville Post: Accounting’s finest 2011
- Cookeville (Tenn.) Herald-Citizen: STEM Center named NASA educational resource center
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Space shuttle costly but beneficial
- Naples (Fla.) Daily News: Naples natives believe they have the key to teach others how to beat the SAT
- Hawaii Reporter: Opinion: Anti-nuclear fictions continue
- The Tennessean: Next Metro clerk, Colombia native sets out to inspire Hispanics
- Nashville Scene: Nashville Cream: U2 at Vanderbilt Stadium, 7/2/11
- Billboard Magazine: U2’s record-breaking 360 Tour is culmination of ‘under-play’ strategy, says Live Nation’s Arthur Fogel
- American Songwriter: 29 years after their first visit, U2 light up Music City
- New York Times: Room For Debate: Are Republicans now ready for a Mormon candidate?
- New York Times: The then and now of memory
- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Study: Prison extends the life of black men
- Associated Press: New Somali PM vows to fight militants, graft
- Associated Press: Fellows study effects of major civil rights ruling
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Feedback on incubator grants sought
- Nashville Business Journal: U2 spawns Vanderbilt-wide effort
- The Tennessean: U2 makes triumphant return to Nashville with larger-than-life show
- The Tennessean: Metro schools, Vanderbilt team up to close science gap
- The Tennessean: In their shopping carts, it’s only “Made in the USA“
- The Tennessean: TennCare now pays for smokers to quit
- The Tennessean: After Soviet fall came ‘bright’ life
- The Tennessean: Academy for Women of Achievement honorees named
- The Tennessean: People in business
- Nashville Post: Money with a mission
- City Paper: State Supreme Court ruling could yield increased alimony awards
- City Paper: Judge sues Channel 5 for libel, setting the stage for local test of an uncommon legal maneuver
- City Paper: Weekly Obsession: Spray down
Week ending Friday, July 1
- Associated Press: Mutation testing for breast cancer offers treatment options
- Daily Iowan: Opinion: After violent video games, what about adult entertainment?
- Las Vegas Sun: Names (do you know them, can you say them?) could be difference in mayoral race
- Nashville Post: Barnes & Noble to operate Vandy bookstore from former Borders spot
- The Tennessean: Dollar General to aid expansion of children’s hospital at Vanderbilt
- Nashville Post: Vanderbilt Eye Institute forms Russian partnership
- ABC: Medical Moments: Hole in ear
- Huffington Post: Opinion: An ounce of prevention
- National Law Journal: Unruly ‘scam bloggers’ are changing legal education, researcher argues
- Cleveland County (N.C.) Star: Cleveland County lawmakers want to restrict Westboro military funeral protests
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: Guest column: State’s commendable pre-K needs support
- The Tennessean: FDA panel: Revoke drug’s breast cancer approval
- The Tennessean: Celebrity Column: Starstruck campers thrill Carrie Underwood
- The Tennessean: New Walmart will give 100 Oaks area another boost
- The Tennessean: Leadership Nashville names new class members
- Nashville Scene: A homecoming…sort of
- Nashville Scene: After all
- Nashville Scene: All Together Now
- Forbes: The Medicine Show: Medical journal slams Medtronic over payments to doctors
- CMT.com: Darius Rucker partners with ACM Lifting Lives Music Camp
- The Tennessean: Mom, Mt. Juliet Little League team get tangled in dispute
- The Tennessean: Glencliff celebrates Award for Excellence
- ABC.com: Bug buster? New chemical compound could ward off deadly mosquitoes
- Wall Street Journal: Loughner’s attorneys seek to halt forced medications
- ProPublica: The Hardest Cases: When children die, justice can be elusive
- Associated Press: Somali parliament approves new prime minister
- WPLN News: Vanderbilt nursing partnerships allow access to strong science programs
- The Tennessean: Nazi victim’s Nashville heir to be paid
- The Tennessean: Carrie Underwood, Wynonna, Darius Rucker helping Lifting Lives camp this week
- The Tennessean: Digital health records a reality
- The Tennessean: Young joints, old condition
- The Tennessean: TN ex-convicts go unsupervised
- Reuters Video: Brain implant gives bluegrass maestro his groove back
- Chicago Tribune: Opinion: Big Brother gets really ugly
- National Journal: Wal-Mart decision will increase number, cost of class-action lawsuits
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Harvard men can buy school ties at Brooks Brothers under new IMG agreement
- Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier: Former slave’s new life, proud legacy
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Democrats say they won’t give up
- Nashville Business Journal: Do Vandy’s homers equal $$$?
- WPLN News: Survey: Tennessee Tea Partiers slightly more libertarian than GOP whole
- The Tennessean: Task force starts something big
- The Tennessean: Nashville medical mart project remains on track, CEO says
- The Tennessean: Culinary degree is educator’s latest