In the News – September 2011
Week ending Friday, Sept. 30
- Los Angeles Times: Listeria outbreak: How do I know if I have it? What are the symptoms?
- Associated Press: Cursive handwriting no longer a focus in many elementary schools
- CNBC: The coffee addiction
- Aurora (Colorado) Sentinel: Colorado boosting vaccination rate at a healthy pace
- Tennessean: New patent reform law gets mixed reviews in TN
- Tennessean: Potter Center’s goal: ‘a safe place’ for all
- Tennessean: TN teachers use ‘creative’ strategies with ADHD students
- Tennessean: Vanderbilt deserves applause for its diversity policy
- Our Teller Co. News.com: Gender gaps are everywhere
- Tennessean: Heritage Foundation’s big bash hits it out of the park
- Nashville Business Journal: TN voter turnout among nation’s worst
- Examiner.com: Vanderbilt says Christian groups must accept homosexuality or be banned
- Tennessean: Davidson County briefs: Get on your feet for week of walking
- Associated Press: Tenn. to free woman whose death term was commuted
- The Tennessean: Court attitudes shift to accept use of battered woman defense
- USA Today: Editorial: Don’t ticket ‘flashing’drivers
- Popular Mechanics (South Africa edition): New technique maps twin faces of smallest Janus nanoparticles
- The Durango Herald: ‘People don’t know what it was like’
- The Huffington Post: Opinion: Sorry, art is a business
- Christian Post: Vanderbilt’s nondiscrimination policy may discriminate against religious groups
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch: So long, freedom of thought.
- The Tennessean: TN voters turn out in record 2010 lows
- New York Times: Filling the void left by Borders
- CBS: MoneyWatch: Financial aid bait and switch?
- CBS Early Show: Teen gets robotic leg after shark attack
- ABC News: Michael Jackson’s death: What is propofol?
- ABC Medical Unit: FDA issues raw oyster warning after illnesses
- ABC Medical Unit: How pools, playgrounds dole out diarrhea disease
- Asbury Park (N.J.) Press: Hopes soar as support groups help families cope
- United Press International: Vanderbilt U. accused of discrimination
- Chronicle of Higher Education Ticker blog: Student groups criticize Vanderbilt’s enforcement of nondiscrimination policy
- The Tennessean: Faith sometimes fails to ease fear
- The Tennessean: Getahn Ward: Vanderbilt claims 5 cardiologists from Saint Thomas
- The Tennessean: Kids, parents get a fun lesson in safety
- Nashville Scene: Nashville Cream: Ousted WRVU DJ Pete Wilson speaks out against ‘micromanaging and censoring’ by VSC
- Christian Science Monitor: How FEMA funding fight led to monster mosquito swarms in N.C.
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt University nondiscrimination policy called unfair to religious groups
- Education Week: On Special Education: Shortage of special education teachers includes their teachers
- Yahoo News: The Lookout: Teachers’ union president calls merit pay naive and short-sighted
- The Tennessean: Lipscomb University growth spurt continues
- The Tennessean: Walk all over Nashville for health, fun
- Washington Post: College Inc: Guest post: Get out your net-price calculator
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt strikes partnerships with three suburban hospitals
- Nashville Post: VUMC goes big
- Reuters: States debate judicial elections versus appointed bench
- United Press International: Is class action on its last shaky legs?
- Voice of America: Opinion: American culture: Out of the movies and into daily reality
- Forbes: Opinion: The wallet allocation rule and your brand
- Gannett News Service: Loan program for fuel-efficient cars at risk in spending fight
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Diversity in Academe: Table
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: Colleges seek more ‘full pay’ students to boost income
- World on Campus: Fighting for autonomy, free exercise
- The Tennessean: Book urges tolerance by putting face on Islam
- The Tennessean: Gail Kerr: Unpredictable Alexander goes against grain again
- The Tennessean: Books, arts tango in group of exhibits around town
Week ending Friday, Sept. 23
- Associated Press: Hospital drug shortages deadly, costly
- ABCNews.com: Freed American hikers face enormous psychological challenges
- Scripps Howard News Service: More flu shots, options give hope for mild flu season
- Minnesota Public Radio: Minnesota’s infant death investigations inconsistent, unregulated
- The Tennessean: TN parties want leadership role in jobs issue
- The Tennessean: Budget cuts threaten pandemic response
- The Tennessean: Music City Star adds riders but hasn’t hit stride
- Nashville Business Journal: Teach for America grows class of recruits
- Nashville Business Journal: Women vote four Nashville hospitals to top 100 list
- Nashville Post: VUMC sued for $15M in negligence case
- Nashville Scene: Billy Collins takes his appeal for accessible poetry to the Fugitives’ citadel
- Nashville Scene: A dark horse no more
- Reuters: U.S. health officials push flu shots for all
- USA Today: Don’t put off flu shot, there’s plenty for all, CDC says.
- Wall Street Journal: Digits: How technology is testing the Fourth Amendment
- Deseret News: Handwriting: A formative art or vital tool?
- Big Picture Science: Audio: Whodunit, who’ll do it?
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Sen. Lamar Alexander gives up leadership position
- Nashville Scene: Bill McKibben Lecture: Global and Local: Reports from the fight for a working planet
- The Tennessean: Cancer Queens sing silly songs to save lives
- Wall Street Journal: Law Blog: Does the Constitution protect flashing headlights?
- KDKA: Warning drivers with high beams free speech?
- Boston Globe: Innovation Economy: Karuna Pharmaceuticals targeting schizophrenia with new discoveries licensed from Vanderbilt University
- The Tennessean: United Nations Foundation aspires to help mothers, children
- Reuters: Trade law hits raw note for guitar maker Gibson
- New York Times: Remark on HPV vaccine could ripple for years
- New York Times: Room for Debate: Taxes and the tyranny of the minority
- The Tennessean: Tennessee’s obesity epidemic: Fighting the big fight
- Associated Press: Alexander, 71, not planning to slow down
- WPLN: Alexander tours his Vanderbilt exhibit.
- USA Today: Headlight-flashing faces test as free speech in Florida
- ABCNews.com: Medical Unit blog: No school for you! Unvaccinated students shut out
- Tri-city Herald: Professor speaks about Japanese disaster during safety workshop
- Investor’s Business Daily: Companies could challenge ObamaCare employer fines
- New York Capital: Campus colossus: NYU and Columbia pursue a global university model, hotly
- Gannett: Hospitals gear up to fight fed cuts
- The Tennessean: Frist culls Renaissance gems from rare Bob Jones University collection
- The Tennessean: Gulch becoming heart of Nashville
- The Tennessean: In county, schools are biggest employer
- The Tennessean: Medicare may pick cheaper eye med Avastin
- The Tennessean: Business Briefs: David Posch is new CEO of VU hospital, clinics
- Nashville Post: Vanderbilt names CEO for hospital and clinic
- Nashville Post: Post Business: Frist named to adjunct role at Vanderbilt
Week ending Friday, Sept. 16
- Science: Chat: Brain science and the law
- Education Week News: Some states, districts abandoning performance pay
- The New Yorker: The Book Bench: The writer’s voice
- Fort Worth Star-Telegram: Editorial: On Constitution Day, securing liberty for our posterity
- The Tennessean: Attacks heightened resolve to savor American way of life
- The Tennessean: Davidson Events: Lamar Alexander’s papers go on display at Vanderbilt
- The Nashville Scene: Around the world in nine evenings
- The Nashville Scene: Text message
- Washington Post: Ezra Klein: Voters don’t award points for effort
- Wall Street Journal: Should the sound of silence be a bird’s tweet or a jet’s roar?
- Washington Post: blogPost: Michele Bachmann’s HPV claims just latest in Gardasil debate
- MyHealthNewsDaily: Should HPV vaccine be mandatory? Experts weigh in
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Vanderbilt flirting with religious suppression
- The Tennessean: Metro hopes to better ‘sell’ school academies
- Sports Illustrated: Ultimate underdog
- Fortune: MBA career promises: Behind the fancy job stats
- ABC: Good Morning America: Michele Bachmann’s HPV vaccine safety and ‘retardation’ comments misleading, doctors say
- Roll Call: Steve Cohen’s tenure as college mascot fueled political career
- Inside Higher Ed: Quick Takes: Shortage seen of special education faculty
- Associated Press: Sea lion intrusion costs group $9,000
- CMT.com: At 100, Bill Monroe’s bluegrass legacy remembered
- The Tennessean: Filmmaker Michael Moore coming to Vanderbilt
- Nashville Scene: Michael Moore Live at Vanderbilt’s Langford Auditorium Oct. 4.
- The Tennessean: Food news: Upcoming events include wine tasting, two vegetarian dinners
- Nashville Scene: Billy Collins reading
- nFocus Magazine: Peabody cool
- U.S. News & World Report: Best Colleges
- The Tennessean: TN colleges ranked among nation’s best
- Nashville Business Journal: Tennessee colleges highlighted by U.S. News
- Washington Post: Opinion: The 2012 election: Why it matters more than most
- Washington Times: Opinion: Grading the Tea Party
- The Tennessean: Anger, fear remain test of faith
- ABCNews.com: 9/11 families, except one, receive over $7 billion
- National Public Radio: Tennessee town grapples with Sept. 11 legacy
- New York Times: Straight Sets: For the poet laureate, the joy of tennis is in the effort
- New York Times: Bruce Dan, who helped link toxic shock and tampons, is dead at 64
- Poets and Writers: 2012 MFA rankings: The top 50
- MyHealthNewsDaily: How the CDC would deal with a real-life ‘Contagion’
- The Tennessean: Nashville witnesses a calamity
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt taps Great Performances from around world
- The Tennessean: Cancer fight offers more for business
- The Tennessean: Former Wall Street worker recalls 9/11 horrors
- The Tennessean: Ms. Cheap: Free shows one perk of living in Music City
- Chapter16.org: Spinning Ariadne
- Watertown (Tenn.) Daily Times: Volunteers try to recapture post-9/11 unity
- The City Paper: ‘Operation Synful Smoke’ unveiled to combat synthetic drugs sales