Week ending Friday, May 27

• ABC News: The Note: List of Republican 2012 opt-outs begs, ‘Who’d want to be president anyway?’
• Daily Mail (U.K.): Cicadas are loud enough to damage your hearing… and the U.S. is about to be invaded by billions of them
• Associated Press: Experts: Anti-psychotic drugs likely for Loughner
• Nashville Scene: Remembrance of wrongs past
• WPLN News: Hickory Hollow charter school approved
• The Tennessean: Milestones: Vanderbilt named Heart Walk leader
• Wall Street Journal: Loughner found unfit for trial
• Agence France Presse: Common drug combo spikes blood sugar: study
• Associated Press: Haslam defends bill voiding anti-discrimination law
• Chronicle of Higher Education: WorldWise: On offices
• Science News: Bacterial meningitis keeps falling
• Christian Century: Peer power
• Nashville Scene: Nobody’s terrorist sympathizer
• New York Times: New study links spine product from Medtronic to risk of sterility in men
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Researchers get royalties, papers omit sterility link.
• USA Today: CDC: Measles epidemic poses travel risks
• Businessweek: Business school commencements 2011
• Time: Fujimori’s spouse, an American: Peru’s next first gentleman?
• City Paper: Doctors get Department of Children’s Services involved in youth obesity cases
• The Tennessean: Connector project excites pedalers
• United Press International: Probiotics may help treat colitis
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Student group that opposes ‘multiculturalism’ is accused of ties to extremists
• WBIR.com: TBI report highlights concern for human trafficking crimes
• The Tennessean: Cheekwood brightens up as earth artist displays his works
• Wall Street Journal: SEC names Craig Lewis as chief economist
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt professor Craig Lewis lands key SEC post.
• ABC News: Smallpox scab plucked from Virginia museum ‘Bizarre Bits’ exhibit
• Washington Post: Five myths about America’s schools
• Inside Higher Ed: Opinion: Ah, Bartleby; ah, humanities
• Indianapolis Business Journal: New laws hang teacher pay on performance
• Kansas City Star: Opinion: The increasing risk of health care fragmentation
• Memphis Commercial Appeal: Editorial: Religion is the issue
• Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro): Editorial: Ketron takes low road on terror bill with video
• The Tennessean: Anti-terror bill divides TN tea party
• The Tennessean: Perfect ACT score puts these Middle TN students in class of their own
• The Tennessean: Fairview’s Jessica Stephens awarded $2,000 ACE Engineering Scholarship
• City Paper: Losing merit

Week ending Friday, May 20

• New York Times: A stream of words, painting a picture
• Slate: Get this woman some laughing gas!
• Esquire: What the hell is with May 21^st being Doomsday?
• USA Today: Dick Ebersol leaves NBC Sports; Mark Lazarus named successor
• National Law Journal: Students try to draw Congress into law school transparency movement
• Nashville Business Journal: Nashville firms hiring more experienced lawyers over recent grads
• Nashville Business Journal: First firms leave Nashville Entrepreneur Center
• Associated Press: Children’s hospital at Vanderbilt ranks high
• Associated Press: Rep. Giffords has surgery to repair skull
• Associated Press: Sex trafficking common in Tennessee
• Associated Press: State Sen. Bill Ketron passes out DVD on Islamic radicalism
• The Tennessean: Editorial: Smear tactics behind terror bill
• The Tennessean: Active moms pursue fitness as the Bambino Brigade
• The Tennessean: Tour de Nash travels city on Saturday
• Nashville Scene: Lest ye be judged
• Nashville Scene: Written on the wind
• U.S. News & World Report: Best Childrens’ Hospitals
• CNN: CNN names Sam Feist D.C. bureau chief
• Slate: Mommy hates Daddy, and you should too
• New Scientist: Is the ‘smell of death’ strong enough evidence?
• Denver Post: Medical marijuana in Colo. gets scant attention from federal prosecutors
• HuffPost Chicago: “Louder Than a Bomb” documentary premieres at Siskel Film Center
• The Tennessean: Ketron hands out anti-mosque video
• The Tennessean: TN funding on reducing infant deaths, birth complications is at risk
• The Tennessean: Letter to the Editor: Engineering talent continues to leave the state
• The Tennessean: County EMS employees honored
• Los Angeles Times: Shorter treatment found for latent tuberculosis
• Washington Post: New study dramatically cuts treatment for latent TB
• Associated Press: CDC: New regimen drastically shortens TB treatment.
• Fortune: Executive MBAs for under $50,000? Yes, they exist.
• Wall Street Journal: Troops in Mideast face breathing ills
• Reuters: SEC eyes six candidates for top economics job
• Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Contracts can include a clause forbidding consumers from joining a class action lawsuit
• The Tennessean: More churches choose to settle issues at local level
• The Tennessean: Glassblower’s studio fires up new fascination with art
• The Tennessean: CASTLES program gives kids healthy alternatives
• Washington Post: Partisan fights in Congress stall panel on primary-health-care shortage
• New York Times: Disunion: Black or white?
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: Presidents are divided on best ways to measure quality
• The Tennessean: More Americans suffer from asthma
• The Tennessean: Damaged transmitter keeps VU radio station off the air
• The Tennessean: Growing ridership may lead to more buses
• Nashville Post: VUMC names public health leader

Week ending Friday, May 13

• New York Times: Speaking up in class, silently, using social media
• CBC Radio (Canada): The killing of Osama bin Laden
• CNN: Taking HIV drugs earlier could curb new infections
• HealthDay News: Ecstasy use may make brain less efficient
• Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: A healthy mall? City hopes concept that’s worked elsewhere will work here
• The Tennessean: Rain forces Vanderbilt to move graduation to Memorial Gym Friday morning
• The Tennessean: Hazmat investigation determines Freon gas leak occurred at VU Medical Center building on Thursday
• Nashville Scene: Nashville Cream: In fight to save WRVU, organization encourages Vanderbilt donors to boycott giving
• USA Today: Navy researcher links toxins in war-zone dust to ailments
• Reuters: With complex prescription routines, fewer filled
• Semanario Universidad (Costa Rica): América Latina ingresa a un período más estable que el pasado, afirma Mitchell A. Seligson, politólogo estadounidense
• The Tennessean: Rev up Nashville’s mass transit, study says
• Nashville Post: Most powerful women: Jenneen Kaufman
• Nashville Scene: The longest ride
• USA Today: Confederate group fights for state specialty plates
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Federal spending on science pays off, analyses by research advocates say
• Boston Review: Opinion: The positives of negativity
• Popular Science: New insect repellent is ‘thousands of times’ more effective than DEET
• Daily Mail: The WMD of insect repellant: Bug spray developed that’s a thousand times more powerful than regular stuff
• Nashville Post: So… How is it on cicadas?
• Science News: Animals quickly colonized freshwater
• Current: In shakeout, student FMs among the most vulnerable
• Education Week: Sara Mead’s Policy Notebook: Go ‘Dores!
• Orlando Sentinel: Air-sample science will be allowed — or will it?
• Knoxville News-Sentinel: Opinion: Court neuters dog owners’ First Amendment challenges
• The Tennessean: TN gets F’s in women’s health
• WPLN: Report gives failing grades on women’s health in Tennessee.
• The Tennessean: Federal judge steps down from Nashville schools redistricting lawsuit
• The Tennessean: Race 4 the Cure funds help Vanderbilt doctor’s research
• MSNBC: Cosmic Log: New weapon for war on mosquitoes
• PhysOrg.com: Biologists discover a new class of insect repellent
• El Universal: Hallan por accidente nuevo tipo de repelente.
• Scientific American: Could carbon labeling combat climate change?
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Digital Campus: When one person’s tech treasure is another’s trash
• National Public Radio: Sick economy means nursing jobs harder to find
• Providence (R.I.) Journal: Opinion: Feds might snuff out dispensaries
• CSPAN Radio: C-SPAN radio’s Supreme Court historic oral argument: Reno v. ACLU (1997)
• Springfield (Ill.) Journal-Register: Lanphier senior overcomes injuries, accepted to Vanderbilt
• New York Times: Watery grave, murky law
• Chronicle of Higher Education: The research drain
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Five views of the changing admissions landscape
• Education Week: Opinion: Let’s focus on gaps in opportunity, not achievement
• CNN: South Korean study may lead to higher autism estimates
• climate.bna: Vanderbilt University law professor touts benefits of carbon labeling
• The Tennessean: ‘Smart’ prosthetics boost amputees’ independence
• The Tennessean: Program starts kids thinking about college at an early age
• The Tennessean: Trevecca Nazarene University’s chicks are on a mission
  

Week ending Friday, May 6

• Time: Did Osama bin Laden’s burial at sea follow Muslim law?
• Bloomberg Businessweek: For Chinese women, U.S. MBAs are all the rage
• Reuters: Roche eye drug debate moves into patient rooms
• ABC News: Infants on the bottle prone to obesity
• ABC News: Latisse eyelash enhancing solution thickens thinning hair and brows
• Associated Press: Court rules although it’s probably unconstitutional, you can be arrested in Virginia for cursing
• Minnesota Public Radio: Nursing a favored landing spot for dislocated workers
• Washington Square News (NYU): Vanderbilt to consider building school in Abu Dhabi
• Creative Loafing Atlanta: A few questions with Alex Kvares and Mark Hosford

• Reuters: 2012 Republicans to highlight economy after bin Laden
• CNBC: Long-term care comes of age
• Science Daily: Holistic processing: seeing the trees and missing the forest
• Entrepreneur Magazine: Five ways to channel your inner millionaire
• Nashville Scene: The Muslim Spring
• Nashville Scene: The real McCoy
• Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt to help fight AIDS in China
• The Tennessean: Thomas C. Barr Jr., author of Caves of Tennessee, dead at 79
• Wall Street Journal: Wall Street’s cult calculator turns 30
• The Morning Sun (Pittsburg, Kan.): Artist takes down exhibit before public lecture
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt professor proposes carbon labeling on products to clue in consumers
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Arts-school grads: rich? Don’t count on it. Content? Quite possibly!
• Inside Higher Ed: The myth of the starving artist.
• National Law Journal: Law schools may be forced to disclose scholarship retention rates
• AM New York: NY’ers riled up over Bloomie’s idea to send immigrants to Detroit
• The Tennessean: Generation’s bogeyman is dead
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt featured on TLC series
• The Tennessean: TN bill will add tax to sugary beverages
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt cancer study looks for high-risk smokers
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt Heart acquires cardiologist group in Columbia, Tenn.
• National Public Radio: Talk of the Nation: Medicine, murder and the history of transfusion
• CNN: Americans take to the streets amid news of bin Laden’s death
• ABC News: Landing your first job: three proven strategies
• New York Times: Review casts more doubts on a lung cancer study
• The Louisville Journal-Courier (Ky.): As the mixed-race population grows, the stigma of the past fades
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges court gay students with email and dance parties
• The Tennessean: More young people have strokes
• The Tennessean: Opinion: Students wield Freedom Riders’ protest power
• The Tennessean: Medicare providers examine new payment model
• The Tennessean: Many still struggle to restore their homes and lives
• Out and About: Paving the way