GREENVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSper) -- Tusculum University issued the following news: A Tusculum University alumna who has advanced in leadership roles during her 23 years as a staff member at the higher education institution, has been promoted to associate vice president of operations. Carrie Maggert will lead a number of university initiatives and enhance collaboration and operational efficiency throughout Tusculum. She will also provide general supervision for numerous departments and   more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSper) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: Dr. Sherry C. Lawdermilt, an information technology (IT) expert with more than 28 years of professional experience and seven years of military service, has been selected as Austin Peay State University's (APSU) next associate vice president and chief information officer (CIO). Efforts to fill Austin Peay's top IT position began after the former CIO, Dr. David Sanchez, resigned last fall. Sanche  more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSpar) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news on April 26, 2023: Austin Peay State University's School of Nursing students are aiming to shape the future of health care, and they presented their ideas to the community April 24 at Tennova Healthcare during the program's annual research poster day. Approximately 265 students worked in small groups to identify clinical problems or issues, develop plans for improvement and draw conclusions on e  more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSres) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: On Friday, April 21st, Austin Peay State University held its second annual Innovation Experience showcase. The event showcased innovative projects and research from students in the College of STEM, done in partnership with industry sponsors. Dakota Price and Kyle Minich, with guidance from Dr. Russ Longhurst, a professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering, and Astronomy, took first place  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: * * * Nicole Avallone has joined the law firm of Baker Donelson as a shareholder in the Firm's Real Estate Group in Fort Lauderdale. * * * Ms. Avallone's practice primarily focuses on real estate and commercial lending, and she has extensive experience representing corporations, developers, lenders, borrowers, and real estate investment companies in the acquisition, development, leasing, f  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSper) -- Belmont University issued the following news release: Belmont University announced today the appointment of David Rosselli, currently Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Relations at Baylor University, as the new Executive Vice President for Advancement at Belmont University, effective August 1. Rosselli brings nearly three decades of strategic development experience at both public and private institutions to his new role at Belmont, where he wil  more

LEBANON, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSfund) -- Cumberland University issued the following news release: On April 20, Cumberland University welcomed over 100 alumni back to campus to celebrate the legacy and success of the Master of Science in Public Service Management (MSP) program. At the end of the evening, a new speaker series was announced in honor of one of the program's cherished professors. The MSP program is designed for a variety of public service, law enforcement and nonprofit social ser  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, April 29 (TNSper) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: The East Tennessee State University Board of Trustees approved promotion and/or tenure for faculty members during its quarterly meeting on April 21. "Faculty are the lifeblood of this institution, and it was a privilege to bring these names before the Board of Trustees for approval," said Dr. Kimberly D. McCorkle, provost and senior vice president for Academics. "We celebrated their accompl  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart McWhorter and Leclerc Foods Tennessee LLC officials announced today the company will expand manufacturing operations at its U.S. headquarters in Kingsport, Tennessee. Leclerc Foods will invest $3.4 million and create 48 new jobs in Sullivan County. In addition to job creation, t  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSfund) -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: Lipscomb University's College of Education, one of the top teacher preparation programs in the nation, has received a $4.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to train mental health professionals in high-need local education agencies (LEAs) in the Nashville area. This is the largest grant received in university history. This grant will fund the college's IMPACT (Innovative Mental Health   more

HARROGATE, Tennessee, April 24 (TNSper) -- Lincoln Memorial University issued the following news: Lincoln Memorial University - Richard A. Gillespie College of Veterinary Medicine (LMU-CVM) student Tarra Barron, Class of 2025, has been named president-elect of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA). "Tara is a gifted student leader who truly deserves this amazing opportunity to represent the entire SAVMA organization as their president," said LMU-CVM Dean Stacy Anderson, D  more

HARROGATE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSjou) -- Lincoln Memorial University issued the following news: Lincoln Memorial University-College of Dental Medicine (LMU-CDM) Associate Professor of Physiology, Modar Kassan, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Maria Galan, Ph.D. at the University Rey Juan Carlos (URJC, Alcorcon campus), Madrid, Spain, authored a research paper which was accepted and published in the "British Journal of Pharmacology".   more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 25 -- Minnesota State Colleges and Universities issued the following news release: Minnesota State has announced two finalists under consideration to become the next chancellor of the system. The finalists are Tonjanita Johnson and Scott Olson. Tonjanita (Tonja) Johnson has served the University of Alabama System since 2019 as senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Previously, she served the University of Tennessee System as the executive vice presi  more

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, April 26 (TNSres) -- Samford University issued the following news release: In August 2022, senior Bill Mouchette became the third consecutive Samford University student to be selected for the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) Young Scholar Awards Program. Mouchette, a senior economics and finance double major from Gallatin, Tennessee, was chosen as one of six undergraduate students in the country to participate in this prestigious program. In April, after months of work  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSfund) -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release on April 25, 2023: The Tennessee state budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which passed overwhelmingly last week, secured critical funding for Tennessee Tech University, including $80.5 million in routine state appropriations for the university. Additional budget amendments included $2 million for the university's wind tunnel and supercomputer research facility in Crossville, $1 millio  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSper) -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: A Tennessee Tech University alumnus with a decade of experience in public relations and advocacy has returned to Tech in a leadership position as News and Public Relations Director. He will now help tell Tech's story, and he sees his role as making sure that Tech is on every Tennessean's radar. Jonathan Frank, a Goodlettsville native, graduated from Tech in 2012 with a degree in po  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSres) -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: The 2023 winner of the Caplenor Faculty Research Award at Tennessee Tech University is a busy man. Aside from winning that prestigious award, he has also won the nationally competitive Fulbright United States Scholar Award. Mohamed Mahmoud, associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, won the Caplenor award for his research involving cybersecurity. His  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news on April 26, 2023: Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti announced today that Tennessee has received a payment of $163.9 million from the major tobacco companies that joined the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. The landmark Settlement, finalized in 1998, resolved Tennessee's lawsuit against the major tobacco companies for violations of consumer protection laws and deceptive marketing practi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued the following news: The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) today announced 102 grants totaling $232,709,981 from the state's American Rescue Plan (ARP) fund, part of which TDEC is administering in the form of drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure grants. Since August, TDEC has awarded and announced $634,404,544 in grant funds through ARP programming. Of  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 -- The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation issued the following news on April 25, 2023: The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) today announced 32 of the 57 Tennessee State Parks have attained Platinum status, the highest level of achievement, in the department's Go Green With Us program. It is the highest number of Platinum parks in the program's history. "Our state parks are setting an example for environmental protectio  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news: On Friday, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee marked the close of the 2023 legislative session, which includes the successful passage of his $56.2 billion budget and full legislative agenda as outlined during his State of the State address in February. "To prepare Tennessee for continued growth and prosperity, we've made strategic investments to cut taxes, strengthen our workforce, ensure educational opportunity   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 -- The Tennessee Public Utility Commission issued the following order establishing amended procedural schedule (Docket No. 23-00018) on April 24, 2023: * * * In Re: Petition Of Tennessee-American Water Company Regarding Changes To The Qualified Infrastructure Investment Program Rider, The Economic Development Investment Rider, And The Safety And Environmental Compliance Rider And In Support Of The Calculation Of The 2023 Capital Recovery Riders Reconciliation OR  more

AUSTIN, Texas, April 25 -- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following news release: Attorney General Paxton joined an amicus brief to protect women's sports from unfair and dangerous competition from biological men. The Tennessee-led brief, filed in the New York City-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, highlights the protections for biological women under Title IX. For decades, Title IX has helped create opportunities for girls to participate in sports by prohibitin  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release: * * * Strengthening the impact of the cutting-edge research taking place in Memphis * * * The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) within the Division of Research & Innovation has received notifications of two issued patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patents are a result of research from faculty within the Herff College of Engineering. The first issued patent focuses on t  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee issued the following news: University of Tennessee, Knoxville, sophomore Tyler Myers has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious undergraduate STEM scholarship in the United States. Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to college sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. The scholarships provide up to $7,500 annually to cover tuition, f  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: After nearly 40 years of research, a team including two researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has published a process for improving magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) capabilities, allowing the researchers to capture brain images at a higher resolution than ever before. As a result of the study, scientists can now create images that show unprecedented  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 26 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: The microbes that live in our upper respiratory tract (URT microbiota) play a role in respiratory health. Disturbances of the URT microbiota during respiratory infections can impact disease severity, immune response, and even development of chronic lung diseases such as asthma. Justin Turner, MD, PhD, Suman Das, PhD, and colleagues used ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to analyze the URT mi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 27 (TNSper) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Bill Heerman, MD, MPH, associate professor of Pediatrics, has been named chief of the Division of General Pediatrics, effective May 1. Heerman, who has spent his entire career at Vanderbilt, was selected following a national search led by Kathryn Edwards, MD, who retired at the end of 2022, and S. Todd Callahan, MD, MPH, professor of Pediatrics and director of the Division of Adolescent a  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Tuberculosis, a bacterial lung infection, is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and is becoming increasingly resistant to antibacterial treatments. Neil Osheroff, PhD, and colleagues assessed a new class of antibacterial drugs called SPTs (spiropyrimidinetriones), which target the same enzyme, gyrase, as fluoroquinolones, the most prescribed class of broad-spectrum antibacteria  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSper) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Elizabeth Phillips, MD, of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, an international expert on adverse reactions to medications, has been elected to membership in the Association of American Physicians (AAP), one of the nation's most respected medical honor societies. Phillips, the John A. Oates Professor of Clinical Research and professor of Medicine, Dermatology, Pharmacology and Pathology  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Three faculty members and five postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt University Medical Center received research honors last week from the American Physiological Society during its 2023 American Physiology Summit in Santa Monica, California. The professional organization represents nearly 10,000 scientists and educators whose studies of physiology -- biological function -- are advancing unde  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 25 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has long been associated with the onset of childhood wheezing diseases, but the relationship between RSV infection during infancy and the development of childhood asthma has remained unclear. A new observational study by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has found that RSV infection in the first year of life is associated w  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 28 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is launching a clinical trial that pairs an experimental vaccine with an established immunotherapy for recurrent, human papilloma virus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancer of the head and neck. This novel vaccine, PVX7, is made by PapiVax Biotech Inc., and the immunotherapy is pembrolizumab made by Merck. The combination is intended to stimulate a greater an  more