VUToday – July 2010
- Week ending Friday, July 30, 2010
- NPR: Just buy it: Impulsiveness tied to brain chemical
- ABC: Contrave diet pill safe and effective … so far
- City Paper: Teachers hit the books to become better in the classroom
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: Campaign to sell college-age interns on Memphis wraps up another season
- Nashville Business Journal: It’s no sweat: Clothing line offers moisture-wicking products
- Agence France Presse: BP to face spill victims in US court for first time
- ABC.com: Universal flu shot shows promise
- American Medical News: E-mail could be good for your patients’ health
- The Tennessean: Immigration ruling won’t deter Tennessee legislators
- Out & About: Vanderbilt hosts HRC scholarship class
- Bleacher Report: Getting creative: Vanderbilt’s promotion idea deserves props
- The Tennessean: Fishing takes hold as teen’s best sport
- Nashville Business Journal: Study: Americans prove socially resilient through recession
- The Tennessean: Is fresh blood better for transfusions? Tests aim to resolve debate
- Memphis Commercial Appeal: Democratic candidate for governor McWherter hits the airwaves with an ad
- Chattanoogan: Students to march on Corker office in support of DREAM act
- O Estãdo de São Paulo: Bebê que convive com livros vai melhor na escola
- MarketWatch: Southern-fried health care
- MarketWatch: The good news: Nashville’s health-care cluster is growing …
- Americas Quarterly: Latin America’s support for same-sex marriage
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Review finds GOP ‘deficit’ on Smith exit
- Boston Globe: Culture club
- National Law Journal: Project bridging law and neuroscience lands at Vanderbilt University
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Nashville prosecutors target gang members
- Birmingham Press-Register: Arrest of suspects in Kyser Miree murder brings relief to neighbors
- The Tennessean: Middle Tennessee universities court foreign students
- The Tennessean: Some see echoes of 2006 GOP Senate primary in TN governor’s race
- The Tennessean: Whooping cough makes a comeback
- The Tennessean: Children, elderly at greater risk of heat ailments
- Week ending Friday, July 23, 2010
- CNN: Can Obama sell Democrats’ legislative victories?
- Wall Street Journal: Lawyers to jockey over litigation venue
- HealthDay: Radiation for childhood cancer can boost risk of stillbirth later
- Buffalo News (N.Y.): Nurse residency program bridges gap
- New York Times: Factory defies sweatshop label, but can it thrive?
- National Geographic: Bowls of fingers, baby victims, more found in Maya tomb
- Associated Press: Rehab-first promising for amateur athlete ACL tear
- GreenBiz: Climate Corps 2010: How a natural disaster can breed efficiency
- Nashville Scene: Elizabeth Spencer, one of the South’s greatest writers, discusses her work, her years in Tennessee, and her friendship with Eudora Welty
- USA Today: Reports of sick travelers climb
- Chronicle of Higher Education: The end of admissions as we know it?
- CNN: Bret Michaels is ‘Custom Built’
- Nashville Post: Vandy leading national law/neuroscience project
- Inside Higher Ed: Finding friends – and ambiguity
- SmartMoney: Buying household staples online
- Bloomberg Businessweek: Pimco sells black swan protection as Wall Street markets fear
- Entrepreneur.com: How to trim payroll without layoffs
- The New Atlantis: Synthetic bioethics
- The Tennessean: Gel shows promise in preventing HIV in women
- The Tennessean: Faith in Social Security is tanking, poll finds
- Nashville Business Journal: Investors buy Vandy biotech Microarray Inc., set up shop in Huntsville
- Nashville Post: Vandy’s big earners
- Tune In Music City: Punch Brothers take bluegrass out of the box
- Boston Globe: Vacations are prickly issue for presidents
- BBC Brasil: Brasil é 2º país da América Latina com maior confiança em Forças Armadas
- Science News: This won’t hurt a bit
- Health Day: Non-invasive diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease shows promise
- Bicycling: Armstrong has found what he is looking for
- The Guardian (U.K.): Virginity: How was it for you?
- City Paper: IRS filing shines light on Vanderbilt finances
- City Paper: Is Bill Haslam your next governor?
- City Paper: Nashville man gets life plus 20 years in VU professor murder
- Nashville Post: Crisis of faiths
- Nashville Post: Gregory leading development for Vandy Children’s expansion
- The Tennessean: Methodists split on interfaith classes
- The Tennessean: People in business
- Hendersonville Star News: Child drownings ‘on the rise’
- Week ending Friday, July 16, 2010
- U.S. News & World Report: Best Hospitals 2010
- The Tennessean: Permanent base should be a goal
- Nashville Scene: A dual exhibit of drawings and Americana from Vandy’s permanent collection rewards careful examination
- The Tennessean: Man convicted in 2008 murder-robbery of Pierre Colas, sister
- Nashville Business Journal: A look at what’s in store for the mall in Bellevue
- The Tennessean: Farmers’ markets in demand
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt football coach Bobby Johnson announces sudden retirement
- Associated Press: Vanderbilt coach steps down 7 weeks before opener
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt players learned quickly of coach’s decision
- The Tennessean: Fans question Vanderbilt Coach Bobby Johnson’s timing of retirement
- The Tennessean: Column: Vandy eats its own; ask Johnson
- The Tennessean: Fellow coaches react to Johnson’s retirement
- The Tennessean: Outtakes from Bobby Johnson’s retirement announcement
- The Tennessean: Bobby Johnson over the years (slideshow)
- City Paper: Vanderbilt’s Johnson steps down as season draws near
- City Paper: Vanderbilt community stunned by Johnson’s sudden departure
- Nashville Scene: The West End Town’s a dead-end world: Bobby Johnson ‘retires’
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Johnson walks away
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Vandy, SEC lose a lot as Johnson walks away
- ESPN: Three-point stance: Right call for Vandy coach
- Sports Illustrated: Don’t be fooled by wins and loses — Johnson did wonders for Vandy
- Rivals.com: Vanderbilt’s Johnson retires from coaching
- The Tennessean: Rutherford mosque supporters, opponents face offThe Tennessean: Woman’s death won’t be in vain if others get help they needThe Tennessean: Impact of yoga on cancer survivors to be studied
- Out & About: Cancer nonprofits to meet in Nashville for entertainment, education
- Reuters: Court strikes down FCC indecency policy
- Fortune: The media vs. Chevron: Bring it on
- Scientific American: Skin fight: Could bacteria carried by amphibians save them from extinction?
- U.S. News & World Report: As law school tuitions climb, so does demand
- The Tennessean: Nashville friends knew softer side of George Steinbrenner
- The Tennessean: Victims’ rights push against clearing Koulis’ name
- Out & About: White named Vanderbilt director of religious life
- ABC.com: HIV vaccine
- City Paper: VU announces newest inductees to sports hall of fame
- National Public Radio: Nashville schools see racial disparities in suspensions
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt study wants to know if stress has effect on aging
- Nashville Business Journal: Vanderbilt Medical Center named one of nation’s “Most Wired”
- Nashville Post: Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital adds leadership
- Nashville Post: Meet the med mart’s competition
- Associated Press: Outside group files to support Ron Ramsey’s gubernatorial bid
- Los Angeles Times: How Ecstasy harm
- Wall Street Journal: Anonymous ladies and gentlemen of the jury
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: Tennessee wrestles with immigration problem
- Inside Higher Ed: Removing an honor
- The Tennessean: Church-rating sites allow people to surf for spirituality
- The Tennessean: Religions don’t lead to same eternal outcome, book says
- City Paper: Trial begins in slaying of Vanderbilt professor
- The Tennessean: In 6th Congressional District primary, it’s war vet vs. war vet
- The Tennessean: ‘Playing by Air’ combines cancer support, entertainment
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt to honor media graduates
- Week ending Friday, July 9, 2010
- National Post (Canada): Corporate ownership losing the race
- USA Today: BP’s payments help, but don’t match the loss
- USA Today: New RNs find job market tight
- American Spectator: The Religious Left and Israel
- Chronicle of Higher Education: Vanderbilt sets an expensive precedent, with 10 million-dollar-plus earners
- United Press International: Water boosts alertness, aids weight loss
- ABCNews.com: Fish oil may fight risk of common breast cancers
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: A poll, the professor and the spin
- City Paper: Does stress play a role in health risks?
- Dickson Herald: Incinerate your unused, expired drugs for free Saturday
- WSMV: Supreme Court asked to change protest law
- Wall Street Journal: BP to resist early notice of asset sales
- Knoxville News-Sentinel: So when are the attack ads coming? Ramsey and Wamp aren’t saying, but Haslam is ready
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Early voting begins July 16
- Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle: Alice Randall to speak at writers’ conference
- WPLN: “Vandy Goes to War” turns focus to Korean War-era memories
- WPLN: Going negative carries risk in three-way GOP primary for governor
- The Tennessean: Hospital heart attack death rate falls
- Nashville Post: Vandy gets cyber secured
- Nashville Post: VUMC’s revamped image
- New York Times: Nut? What nut? The squirrel outwits to survive
- Dallas Morning News: Charter schools spread across Texas with goal of newer, better teaching
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital sees eight drowning deaths in a month
- The Tennessean: Summertime raises caution to parents, drivers for kids at play or in driveways.
- Dallas Morning News: Black physicians broke color barrier at Dallas hospitals
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Physician with exemption to start work in Jackson
- The Tennessean: Program stresses diet, exercise
- The Tennessean: Illegal immigration may shape Tennessee elections
- The Tennessean: More moms use alternative pain relief for childbirth
- The Tennessean: ‘New biology’ wants students excelling in multiple fields
- The Tennessean: People in business
- Week ending Friday, July 2, 2010
- Los Angeles Times: Guatemala at risk
- Nashville Post: Vanderbilt development team adds exec
- Nashville Scene: NPT tackles the issue of Tennessee’s infant deaths; remembering Sinking Creek founder Mary Jane Coleman
- Nashville Post: VU is much better for scientists
- Nashville Post: Overnight relay to raise money for Children’s
- NPR: Can your genes make you murder?
- United Press International: Inactive white women most apt to be obese
- Associated Press: When is a drug too risky to stay on the market?
- City Paper: Celebrities to shine light on First Amendment
- The Scientist: Best Places to Work in Academia
- ABC: Whooping cough outbreak in California
- WNPR: Advertising through a crisis
- The Tennessean: Veggie Project expands to fight childhood obesity
- The Tennessean: Tennessee is second fattest state in annual obesity report
- New York Times: At the New York Harbor School, growing oysters for credit
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Haslam just a bored rich man, Wamp says
- The Tennessean: Teachers’ union endorses five school board candidates
- Nashville Business Journal: Nashville Civic Design Center names Julia Fry Landstreet as executive director
- Bloomberg Businessweek: College: Big investment, paltry return
- Associated Press: Diabetes drug risks reported ahead of FDA hearing
- Times of India: Gujarat and Gujarati evolved under the rule of sultans
- The Tennessean: Law school can refuse to honor Christian group
- The Tennessean: Vanderbilt medical center must embrace health changes
- The Tennessean: ‘Rosie the Riveter’ wants place in his-tory
- The Tennessean: Leadership Nashville class selected
- New York Times: Global migration: A world ever more on the move
- USA Today: Man at helm of oil fund master of mediation
- CNN: Combo shot boosts kids’ fever-related seizure risk
- Jerusalem Post: Serious fun
- Education Week: Study uncovers the downside of innovation
- New York Times: A graduation prompts images of Dorothy, the Tin Man and a looming twister
- Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Candidate Haslam talks guns, gambling, budget
- The Tennessean: Community gardens take root in Nashville
- The Tennessean: Gains in gay rights are won too slowly, some say
- The Tennessean: Experimental heart keeps baby boy alive until donor found
- The Tennessean: Study doesn’t tell all on school’s mission
- The Tennessean: New iPhone, iPad put heat on Apple’s competitors
- Nashville Post: Komen taps Vanderbilt cancer center leaders
- Nashville Business Journal: Study: Tennessee lags in stimulus spending
- CBS Evening News–Weekend: Cloud of smoke could put soldiers’ lives at risk