CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, June 7 (TNSbook) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news dated June 8, 2023: Dr. Minoa D. Uffelman, professor of history at Austin Peay State University (APSU), recently published her latest work, "Sarah Kennedy Letters: Life under Occupation in the Upper South." This compelling book delves into the experiences of Sarah Kennedy, a slave-owning wife and mother, as she navigates the challenges of the Civil War while her husband, D.N. Kennedy, serves the  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release on June 8, 2023: Melodie Hengerer, a shareholder in the Baltimore office of Baker Donelson, has been named a member of the advisory board of the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Center for Organ Donation and Transplant Education and Policy (the Mason Center) in the Mercer University School of Medicine (MUSM). The newly launched Mason Center will be one of only two academic research programs focused o  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSawa)(TNSbook) -- Belmont University issued the following news release: Belmont University Assistant Professor of Global Leadership Studies and Honors Dr. Mary Ellen Pethel was recently named the 2022 Tennessee History Book Award recipient for her book "Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee Trailblazers: 50 Years, 50 Stories." Sponsored by the Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tennessee Historical Society, the award program is in its 25th year. "Writing th  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 10 (TNSper) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Shon Dwyer, MBA, RN, President of Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), is leaving her role as the facility's leader at the end of the fiscal year. She has worked in the academic hospital and health system arena for 36 years and will be departing to further expand and leverage her leadership capabilities toward a greater impact on U.S. health care. Lee Ann Liska, MBA, VUH's Chief Operating   more

CLEVELAND, Tennessee, June 6 (TNSper) -- Lee University issued the following news: After 28 years at the helm of Lee University Athletics, Larry Carpenter has announced his retirement as Athletic Director, effective June 30. He will remain with the Athletic Department serving as Special Assistant to the Athletic Director. Lee Director of Golf and National Champion winning Head Coach, John Maupin, has been named the new Athletic Director, effective July 1. Maupin came to Lee in 2008 after a de  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news on June 8, 2023: Reginald Frye, PharmD, PhD, FCCP, the new dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, had less than a week to get acquainted with Memphis before his first day at the helm of the college. Still, he believes he is settling in well to life in the Bluff City and at UTHSC. "It's been great," he said. "Everybody's been very welc  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Amsterdam-based Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center have announced a collaboration that aims to reduce the health system's carbon footprint while determining a blueprint to guide industry efforts. The project is with VUMC's Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, where efforts will focus on measuring and addressing energy   more

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSper) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: Austin Peay State University (APSU) has announced the appointment of Rashad Cockrell as the new director of the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center. Cockrell will assume his role on July 3, 2023, bringing a wealth of experience and a commitment to fostering a vibrant and inclusive community. Cockrell graduated from Mississippi State University in 2017, earning his Bachelor of Busine  more

NEW YORK, June 9 -- Scholastic, a children's publishing, education and media company, issued the following news release on June 8, 2023: To combat learning loss and strengthen early literacy in Tennessee, Governor's Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) today announced the expansion of its K-3 Home Library program to now include all rising 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students enrolled in a public school, as well as librarians and media specialists. In collaboration with Scholastic, the global children's   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSres) -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release on June 7, 2023: Today, the Tennessee Department of Education released district-level data on the TCAP retake opportunity, one of the pathways to promotion for third grade students who may benefit from extra learning supports. The data, accessible here, includes district-level percentages of third grade students who were eligible to take the retake, who participated in the TCAP retak  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news: Attorney General Skrmetti is joining a coalition of 28 state Attorneys General calling on the Federal Communications Commission to clarify the federal rules requiring telemarketers to obtain consent between an individual consumer and one specific seller or business entity before making telemarketing robocalls and texts. The comment letter was filed on June 6 in response to an FCC notice of p  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 10 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news on June 9, 2023: Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti today announced the final approval of $17.3 billion in opioid agreements with drug makers Teva and Allergan and pharmacies CVS and Walgreens. Following successful state sign-on and subdivision sign-on periods, the defendants have committed to the deal and will start releasing funds to a national administrator later this summer. Money is expe  more

SMYRNA, Tennessee, June 7 -- The Tennessee Military Department issued the following news release: The Tennessee National Guard launched the pilot program of GRIT, Guard Readiness Improvement Training, at the Volunteer Training Site in Smyrna in May. Maj. Gen. (Retired) Jeff Holmes, Tennessee's former adjutant general, asked Sgt. 1st Class Ken Weichert, to update a version of what was once called "Warrior Fit Camp." Holmes said it was highly successful, but it needed to be updated to be more co  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release: The University of Memphis is pleased to announce that Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta and Dr. Ryan Parish have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in Computer Science to Iceland for a semester and in Archaeology to Chile, respectively, during the 2023-24 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Dasgupta's Fulbright Iceland-National Science F  more

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 8 (TNSres) -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: Chief residents from across the nation came to the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine's Faculty Development Center's Chief Resident Leadership Skills Conference. Thirty-eight chief residents and three coordinators came to The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth from Oklahoma, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas to participate in a conference on a variety of   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 7 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: Kristi Forman, DBA, has been named the director of Admissions Operations in the Office of Enrollment Management at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Forman will provide leadership in the UTHSC Office of Admissions to maintain compliance for admissions processes, ensure accurate and detailed reporting, and uphold admissions policy. Through collaboration  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 7 (TNSeco) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: The Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is set to open the newly renovated Jim and Virginia McGehee Skills Transfer Center, where residents will undergo intensive training in ophthalmic surgery. The center is a state-of-the-art training lab that will allow residents in the UTHSC Department of Ophthalmology to perfect their surgical skills u  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 6 (TNSpro) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: In January, the College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center began offering one of 12 master's degree programs for pathologists' assistants in the country. It was a years-long effort for the college, and it came at the perfect time for student Jasmine Becton, a Memphis native. "There were no programs nearby, and I didn't want to move because  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: * * * Second U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference Attracts Crowd * * * Some of the world's best minds that are focused on profitable and sustainable livestock production attended and presented at the recent Second U.S. Precision Livestock Farming Conference. Hosted by University of Tennessee AgResearch, the May 21-24 event at the UT Conference Center in Kn  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 10 (TNSfund) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: The Department of Defense has awarded $1.15 million to a new research project at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) that could expand the treatment options for breast cancer metastasis. Tiffany Seagroves, PhD, professor of Pathology in the College of Medicine, is the lead investigator. The project expands upon previously published research from her lab on   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 7 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Jackson Roberts II, MD, an internationally known clinical pharmacologist in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine who helped define the role of lipid peroxidation and oxidative stress in human disease, died May 31 in Nashville. He was 79. Dr. Roberts, professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, emeritus, was perhaps best known for his co-discovery of a class of potent prostaglandin-like compounds  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Magnetic resonance imaging has been used to monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment noninvasively. However, traditional MRI measures bulk tumor volume without accounting for heterogeneity (variation) in tumor cells. More granular imaging techniques that can quantify cellular changes in treated tumors are needed. Junzhong Xu, PhD, and colleagues assessed MRI-measured cell size to info  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 8 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news on June 7, 2023: A sweet spot in the deep brain with direct lines of communication to motor regions far out on the cerebral cortex might hold a key to halting the progression of early-stage Parkinson's disease. A new analysis of data collected 15 years ago from research participants with early-stage Parkinson's links their responses to deep brain stimulation, or DBS, with electrode placement  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: A study from Vanderbilt researchers has found that enhanced treatment support can help smokers who have more difficulty quitting because they are fast metabolizers of nicotine. The study published recently in Nicotine & Tobacco Research is the latest finding from the Vanderbilt Center for Tobacco, Addiction and Lifestyle (ViTAL) that supports a personalized medicine approach to smoking cess  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Damage or removal of calcium-regulating parathyroid glands during endocrine surgery can put children at risk for poor growth and slow mental development. Preserving the often rice-sized organ in children is vital, but not always easy. In a first-of-its-kind study in children, researchers at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University Medical Center found th  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: The expected course of a patient's cancer prognosis has traditionally been judged by its type, stage and microscopic aggressiveness, but patients with the same presentation can still have widely divergent outcomes. Researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have discovered that differences in tumor mutation burden are a major reason for this divergence. The study, published June 5 in   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: The U.S. government could save taxpayers between $228 million-$2.15 billion a year if insurers who operate its Medicare Part D plans purchased seven generic oncology drugs at the same prices obtained by the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (MCCPDC), according to a study published today in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, The Vanderbilt University Medical Center study, led by Ruchika Talwa  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 9 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Atrial fibrillation (A-fib) -- the most common cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) -- is associated with increased risk of stroke, heart failure, dementia and death. Antiarrhythmic drug therapy to prevent A-fib has remained elusive. The strongest genetic risk factors for A-fib in humans are variants in a chromosomal region including the gene Pitx2. Mice with Pitx2 deficiency have incr  more