Vanderbilt In The News – May 2011
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 21st 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