VUToday – December 2010
Week ending Friday, Dec. 31
- The Globe and Mail (Toronto): Young tennis stars must choose between turning pro and college
- Nashville Scene: In Memoriam 2010
- The Tennessean: Freedom Riders’ courage, sacrifice recounted in film
- ABC News: Should sleepy surgeons disclose fatigue to patients?
- Investor’s Business Daily: Simon Bolivar’s freedom fight in South America
- The Tennessean: A look back: 2010 will be remembered as ‘the year of the flood’
- ABC News: Eleven years later, triplet no. 3 arrives
- WPLN: Evolution of treatment apparent in AIDS clinic move
- Nashville Post: Vanderbilt backs HealthSouth hospital plan
- El Mercurio (Chile): Barómetro de Las Américas ubica a Chile en el 11° lugar de percepción de inseguridad
- Parenting.com: So big! What kids’ growth charts don’t tell you
- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Doctors question journal articles
- Salt Lake Tribune: Interfaith volunteers welcome refugees with Christmas deliveries
- Chicago Tribune: Doctor sex misconduct cases monitored in secrecy
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Care organizations raising concerns
- WPLN: Passing law to clamp down on meth ingredient might not be easy
- WPLN: Vanderbilt infectious disease expert warns of whooping cough
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt study’s treatment for drug-addicted mothers helps improve newborns’ condition
- The Tennessean: For Vanderbilt janitor with lung cancer, gift comes in hope of cure
- The Tennessean: Peace not just an ideal for many
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt professor uses sign to promote peace
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Many left out of city’s economic recovery
- The Tennessean: Nashville math teachers get extra training to lift dismal scores
- The Tennessean: Opinion: Vision of Mary instills grace, hope for all of us
- The Tennessean: Baby’s first Christmas is one gift few can top
Week ending Thursday, Dec. 23
- Washington Post: Full-body scanners: Exposing issues of privacy and body image
- Inside Higher Ed: Deconstructing a calendar change
- Politico: The Arena: Does Haley Barbour’s explanation fly?
- The Tennessean: Tennessee Voices: Government + medicine usually equals suffering
- Nashville Scene: We Are Nashvill(ians) of the Year 2010
- Nashville Scene: Tennessee writers shine on best-of lists all over the media
- Providence Journal: Census 2010: Slight rise in population helps R.I. keep two seats in Congress
- Psychology Today: Here, There and Everywhere: Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice
- USA Today: Jewish parents choose various paths to raise adopted children in the faith
- The Tennessean: Backfield in Motion gives kids better chance at success
- Nashville Business Journal: 20 honored as ‘Healthiest Employers’
- Los Angeles Times: Congressional Republicans just can’t win with the right
- WebMD: Brain scans predict dyslexia improvements
- The Tennessean: Jewish parents choose various paths to raise adopted children in the faith
- Nashville Post: Rehab hospitals pitched for Franklin
- New York Times: Lesbian coach’s exit from Belmont U. has Nashville talking
- New York Times: The Quad: From the locker room to the library
- CNN: Four ways to avoid getting sick during the holiday season
- LiveScience: Staph bacteria prefer humans to animals
- Converge Magazine: High-tech school bus teaches students on the road
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Innovations: Strive for College
- The Tennessean: Health-care services helping the poor around the world also reach close to home in TN
- The Tennessean: TN doctors get big bucks from drugmakers
- The Tennessean: Bargain face lifts ignite debate
- The Tennessean: Battle is on over Nashville emissions testing contract
- Dickson Herald: Several cities interested in school system’s family clinic
- Nashville Post: Post Business: VU law student pressure group gets results
Week ending Friday, Dec. 17
- Globe and Mail (Canada): Opinion: On the tax deal, Obama got the best of the GOP
- Politico: The Arena: Is Palin warming to ‘lamestream’ media?
- The Jewish Star: Comments put Kissinger in the spotlight
- U.S. News & World Report: U.S. News pledges to publish more law school employment data
- Wall Street Journal: Health Blog: A.M. vitals
- Popular Science: The most amazing science images of 2010
- The Tennessean: Sewanee honors Becca Stevens for nonprofit work
- The Tennessean: Green Hills drop-in daycare focuses on child development
- The Tennessean: Judge orders Metro Nashville government to change job screenings.
- Nashville Scene: Boner Awards 2010
- New York Times: Staph’s trail points to human susceptibilities
- Financial Post (Canada): More erratic tactics, but just as profitable
- National Law Journal: A big term for class actions
- The Tennessean: Groovy, man: Vanderbilt exhibit salutes the ’60s
- The Tennessean: Quirky tree of trinkets full of family memories
- Wall Street Journal: U.S. News to offer more detailed info in its law rankings
- Chicago Tribune: Is the writing on the wall for handwriting?
- Science News: Face memory peaks late, after age 30
- New Scientist: Metamaterials offer a path through the looking glass
- Associated Press: Scholar’s experience at Belmont raises questions
- Education Week: Study finds bad schools rarely get better—or shut down
- Associated Press: TN House Democrats ready to select new leaders
- Forbes: Second Opinion: If health care ruling holds, insurer requirements must change too
- The Tennessean: Health-care case appears sure to reach Supreme Court
- City Paper: Metro may install wind turbine, solar panels atop Love Circle
- Inside Higher Ed: Your tub or mine
- Los Angeles Times: A closer look: Weight-loss drugs
- Los Angeles Times: Rates for adult vaccinations remain low
- New Scientist: Had flu? The next pandemic could hit you harder
- WPLN: Seasonal flu reaction worsened H1N1: Vanderbilt researcher
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges lock out blind students online
- GEO Television Network: Broccoli may not fight lung cancer in non-smokers
- St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay.com: A disappearing art, cursive writing is part of Florida’s script
- North County Times (Calif.): Escondido: Critics, studies say ballpark boom unlikely
- Med India: U.S. still racially prejudiced, despite Obama
- Tennessean: Obama’s judicial pick seen as snub to TN congressional Dems
- Tennessean: Lap-Band use could expand to millions
- Globe and Mail: The top 10 business reads of 2010
- Tennessean: Autism’s growth leaves TN schools unprepared
- Digital Journal: Opinion: Snyder family takes Westboro Baptist Church to Supreme Court
- Forbes: Names you need to know: Sweet tea vodka
- Leaf-Chronicle: Montgomery County residents honored in Governor’s Volunteer Stars Awards
- Tennessean: Cancer survivor donates toys to Vanderbilt
- Gallatin News-Examiner: Seven candidates vie for Black’s former 18th District seat
- Tennessean: Thomas Henry Clark, engineer whose designs included Music City Center, dies
- Tennessean: Rent first to find comfort zone
- Out & About: Nashville GLBT Chamber names new board
- Tennessean: John Rich hosts holiday party for children’s hospital
Week ending Friday, Dec. 10
- Investors Business Daily: Is Obamacare unconstitutional? Virginia will put it to the test
- Agence France Presse: Despite Obama election, U.S. far from color-blind: study
- New Scientist: Fungus out! The frog resistance is here
- U.S. News & World Report: Developing robots for the hospital emergency room
- Politico: The Arena: A primary challenge to Obama?
- Kiplinger’s: Best Values in Private Colleges 2010-11
- Human Resource Executive Online: Transparency gaining steam
- The Tennessean: Books from Birth replaces children’s books lost in Nashville flood
- Nashville Scene: Cast the first stone
- Bloomberg/Business Week: Greece selling Diaspora bonds mimics Israel overseas
- Politico.com: A primary challenge to Obama?
- The Tennessean: Tennessee Republicans look at risks of closed primaries
- Huffington Post: We cannot afford not to pass the DREAM Act: A plea from immigration scholars
- Detroit Free-Press: U.S. hospitals mandate that workers get flu shots
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Hi I’m a robot. I’ll be your doctor today.”
- French Tribune.com: Immune system can also kill
- Commercial Appeal: Economist: 2011 shaping up to be an ‘excellent year’ for Memphis
- Nashville Scene: Two fascinating shows at Cheekwood exemplify trends in the current world of art
- Metro Pulse (Knoxville): Trashy Vol fans
- Nashville Scene: So … This happened in 2010: Nylon to Next Big Nashville, KOL to WRVU
- Education Week: Naming a top educator seals waiver deal in NYC
- Education Week: Inside School Research: Higher STEM ‘dose’ may lead to adult achievement
- CNN: Tuesday’s interesting people
- Psychology Today: Ulterior Motives: Why do parents think the DVDs work, then?
- Nashville Business Journal: Nashville Biz Blog: Robots in the ER: Vandy engineers are working on it
- The Tennessean: Troupe juggles passion with helping community
- The Tennessean: Human rights activists gather in Nashville
- Reuters: Analysis: U.S. may toughen scrutiny of tiny clearers
- ABC News: Do educational videos help babies?
- Washington Post: New health-care law expands insurance coverage for adult immunizations
- National Journal: Wal-Mart lawsuit could make waves for businesses
- Science News: Friendly fire blamed in some H1N1 deaths
- Chapter 16: What’s left of memory
- New York Times: New meningitis vaccine brings hope of taming a ravaging illness in Africa
- CNN: The Chart: Of mice and mood
- Nature News: Exposure to seasonal flu weakened armor against H1N1
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Graduation rates fall at one-third of four-year colleges
- New York Times: Waning support for college radio sets off a debate
- SmartMoney: Ten things charter schools won’t tell you
- Dallas Morning News: Study shows Texas teacher merit pay helps keep staff, slightly helps test scores
- Washington Post: Post Partisan: Teach for America — let’s do the numbers
- Denver Post: Recognizing parental alienation syndrome
- Orlando Sentinel: Once-homophobic black pastor today becomes advocate for gays, thanks to lesbian friend
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Surgeon risked life for Vietnamese youth during war
- The Tennessean: Nashville center puts sickle cell specialists under one roof
- The Tennessean: Shade Tree gives health care where it’s needed the most
Week ending Friday, Dec. 3
- Chronicle of Higher Education: ProfHacker: Creating effective job ads
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: Teach for America recruits produce higher test scores, get better results
- The Tennessean: TennCare judge ordered off case over delays, language
- The Tennessean: Salvation Army Angel Tree adopts flooded-out Nashville family
- The Tennessean: Spring Hill ER uncontested, HCA TriStar moves forward with plans
- Nashville Scene: Writing the world
- Nashville Scene: Pharm league
- Nashville Post: Post Business: TLC filming TV show at VUMC
- BBC: Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research
- EFE (Spain): Wikileaks y su cruzada contra el “secretismo” desatan pasiones encontradas
- CNN: The Chart: Researchers one step closer to potential autism test
- Emergency Management: Web-based survey, message board aid Vanderbilt University flood response
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt, national health study to track children from birth to 21
- City Paper: State lacks standardized training methods for autistic students
- New York Times: At Vanderbilt, much to be thankful for
- Forbes: Second Opinion: America can’t cut spending without slashing Medicare
- BNet: The fear merchants: Behind Wall Street’s plan to profit from rocky markets
- Associated Press: Rural district extends lesson time with high-tech school bus
- El Universal (Mexico): Opinion: Servicio social para rescatar a los “ninis”
- Forbes: To fix health care, consumers must own up to its true costs
- Newsweek: Validation in a virus?
- Live Science: Psychologist gets bluesy on the brain
- ABA Law Journal: Up in smoke: Voter reactions have some saying it’s time to rethink cannabis regulation
- NPR: Siblings of sick kids learn a life lesson early
- NPR: Post-feast weight gain isn’t as bad as you think
- CNN: Why eating a lot feels so darned good
- ABC.com: Losing weight without surgery
- Tennessean: New businesses hatch at Nashville Entrepreneur Center
- Wall Street Journal: Investing in fear is big business
- NPR: Thanksgiving is for germs and flu shot procrastinators
- Tennessean: Boulevard Bolt runners save man’s life with CPR
- TTKN: Attorney General Eric Holder names 18 experts to new science advisory board
- Commercial-Appeal: Colleges debate applicant questions that ask students to answer about sexuality, gender
- Nashville Scene: This is your brain on hot chicken
- NJ.com: Educators must take lead in defining school reform
- Press-Register: Get to know Meredith Foster Horton: New principal continues climbing ladder of education
- South Bend Tribune: Report shows merit pay for teachers is not effective
- Stabroek News (Georgetown, Guyana): Battered lives…domestic violence sends many to hospital, study says
- Becker’s ASC Hospital Review: 100 best places to work in healthcare
- Daily News Journal: More Nashville stores open today for early, early birds
- Tennessean: TN insurers balk at breakthrough drug addiction therapy
- Tennessean: Robots can’t learn if they’re tied down
- Tennessean: Nashville families start new holiday traditions
- HuffingtonPost: The top five ways to live longer, stronger and happier
- Grand Forks Herald: UND team preparing for trip to Antarctica
- Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul): Editorial: A dearth of data about costly law degree
- Tennessean: AIDS activist visits Nashville
- Tennessean: Nashville’s enthusiasm for charter schools attracts visionaries
- Nashville Post.com: On the move
- Tennessean: Ms. Cheap: Seasonal sales are gift for bargain hunters
- Tennessean: Nashville people in business