CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: Austin Peay State University recently celebrated the life and success of bell hooks, author of "All About Love," with an educational symposium on Wednesday, Sept. 6. Among the featured guests were her two sisters, Gwenda Watkins-Motley and Valerie Watkins, her childhood friend, Francene Gilmer, and human rights advocate Idalia Luna. The symposium aimed to tell the story of hooks' life and caree  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- Bechtel issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2023: Bechtel announced today that it will open a new office, an Engineering Execution Center, in Knoxville, Tennessee. The center will provide engineering services to support Bechtel's work executing complex, precise, mission-based projects. Located in Cedar Bluff, the office opening is on October 2, 2023. Bechtel has already started recruiting local engineers. Interested candidates are encouraged to vi  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- Bridgestone, a tire and rubber company, issued the following news release: Bridgestone Americas (Bridgestone) announced the expansion of the company's bestselling Potenza line-up with the all-new Bridgestone Potenza Sport AS tire. Bridgestone's latest ultra-high performance all-season product delivers year-round thrills, including confident handling and responsive grip, paired with excellent wet performance1 and improved winter capabilities2 to provide a sporty   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: By Lee Ferguson Tony Marion, PhD, College of Medicine Emeritus Professor, may have retired in 2022, but UTHSC researchers are about to benefit from one of his final efforts on their behalf: a major equipment upgrade to ensure they have the latest and greatest technology for isolating and analyzing live cells. For the third time in his career, Dr. Marion, former director of the   more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: Dr. Erik Dahl, associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School's National Security Affairs Department, will present a lecture titled "Using the Intelligence Community to Prevent the Next Pandemic" on Thursday, Sept. 14, at East Tennessee State University. Dahl's talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of ETSU College of Public Health's Leading Voices in Public Health lecture series.  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: From a historic partnership with Tennessee State University to a renewed commitment to international excellence, it has been a banner year for the East Tennessee State University Honors College and the Center for Global Engagement. Dr. Danielle Walters wants to keep the momentum going. Named the director of Education Abroad earlier this summer, Walters hopes to generate "a space on campus that   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release: University of Memphis Applied Linguistics professor Dr. J. Elliott Casal recently co-authored a study that revealed trained linguists and reviewers from top academic journals were largely unsuccessful in identifying artificial intelligence (AI) versus human writing of research abstracts, with an overall positive identification rate of only 38.9%. Conducted along with Dr. Matt Kessler from the   more

HENDERSON, Tennessee, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- Freed-Hardeman University issued the following news: Dennis and Clista Heintzman, of Pennsboro, West Virginia, were so pleased with the science education and research experience their children -- Dr. Bethany Tyler ('15) and Darren Heintzman ('17) -- received at Freed-Hardeman University that they wanted to invest in the program to support future generations. The couple said their children were blessed by the university's biology, chemistry and undergra  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Mr. Roberts assumes the role from Brigid M. Carpenter, who has served as the Nashville managing shareholder since 2017. Ms. Carpenter will return to a full-time focus on her practice, which includes products liability defense, catastrophic personal injury defense, defense of class actions, and prosecution and defense of commercial disputes. "Brigid has been an exceptional leader during a time of treme  more

CLEVELAND, Tennessee, Sept. 5 -- Lee University issued the following news: The Lee University Board of Directors recently awarded promotion to Dr. Jean Eledge, promoted to vice president for Academic Affairs; Dr. Randy Wood, promoted to dean of the College of Arts & Sciences; and Dr. Jennifer Minutolo, promoted to associate dean of the School of Business. Eledge, distinguished professor of French, has been at Lee since 1990. She has served the institution in various roles that include full-tim  more

HARROGATE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- Lincoln Memorial University issued the following news: Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) President Clayton Hess, PhD, has announced plans to retire at the end of the calendar year. Senior Executive Vice President Jason McConnell will serve as interim president beginning on January 1, 2024, and a national search will follow. Hess has been a member of the LMU faculty and staff since 1981 when he began a 42-year career shortly after he graduated, Hess has served i  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- Lincoln Memorial University issued the following news: By Emily Loden Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law (LMU Law) announces the hiring of Dr. Joseph D. ("Jody") Prestia and Colonel Matthew D. van Dalen as visiting assistant professors of law. "We are fortunate to be adding Dr. Prestia and Col. van Dalen to our faculty. They bring with them a vast amount of teaching and practice experience and a commitment to the mission of LMU Law," LMU Law Vice  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 4 -- Lipscomb University issued the following news on Sept. 2, 2023: Lipscomb University's strong, longtime heritage of choral music performance has seen a boost this fall with participation numbers climbing with the arrival of Director of Choral Activities and Music Education Matt Taylor, who joined the faculty of the School of Music, housed in the George Shinn College of Entertainment & the Arts, in August. Taylor is currently completing his Doctor of Musical Arts  more

ALBANY, New York, Sept. 8 -- New York Attorney General Letitia James issued the following statement on Sept. 6, 2023: * * * New York Attorney General Letitia James and a bipartisan group of attorneys general from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle one of three major antitrust lawsuits against the company for its anticompetitive conduct in the Google Play Store. The lawsuit was led by Attorney General James and   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Meghan Burke joined Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development in August as professor of special education. Her research interests include family advocacy, families of individuals with disabilities, and disability policy. She examines how families advocate for services for their family members with disabilities as well as how siblings of individuals with disabilities transition to caregiving rol  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: A study at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center aims to develop a new way to treat ischemic stroke, a leading cause of death in adults worldwide. The study is funded by a $1,155,000 translational grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health. Jianxiong Jiang, PhD, associate professor in the Departme  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- Southwest Tennessee Community College issued the following news: Southwest Tennessee Community College has released to the College the census-data student headcount for Fall '23. As of Sept. 3, 2023, the headcount of students is 6,981, an increase of 3.6% over the Fall '22 enrollment of 6,736 students. The increase in students is the first in three years for the College since the pandemic hit in January 2020. Census data is a federal reporting requirement for all  more

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: The Center for Gifted Studies at WKU announces 53 schools from 27 school districts in Kentucky and Tennessee participated in Project Launch Plus, a federal Javits grant, this past school year. Eligible sixth-grade students from the following districts and schools were offered an above-level test and research-based informational emails for the families of high-ability learners. Due to the research  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti issued the following news: As part of a bipartisan 54-state and territory coalition, Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti joined a letter urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) can and is being used to exploit children through child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to propose legislation to protect children from those abuses. "We should do all we can to research and understand AI's impact, deter expl  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news on Sept. 7, 2023: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter and Aero Build, LLC officials announced today the company will invest $861,000 to expand its manufacturing operations in Nashville, Tennessee. As a result of the project, Aero Build will create an additional 43 new jobs at its Davidson County headquar  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2023: Today, the Tennessee Department of Education invites all Tennesseans to a public rulemaking hearing to provide public comment to the proposed revisions to the Career and Technical Education (CTE) portion of the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) rule definitions. These revisions address the direct allocations component of the TISA Act. The hearing will take   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 -- The Tennessee Military Department issued the following news release: Roughly 25 Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard's 1130th Finance Management Support Detachment departed Tennessee on Tuesday, September 5, on the first leg of a year-long deployment to the Middle East. The 1130th, stationed in Nashville, is a finance unit comprised of National Guardsmen trained to process Soldier's pay, provide debt management, manage all accounts for U.S. and coalition   more

TUSKEGEE, Alabama, Sept. 8 -- The Tuskegee University issued the following news: Tuskegee University is proud to announce the renewal of a substantial grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $2,863,511, to support the Tuskegee University CyberCorps(R) Scholarship for Service (SFS) program and the Cyber Bridge program, aimed at non-computer science majors. This grant will fund these initiatives over the next five years, fostering the development of qualified and well-trained p  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- Union University issued the following news release: Union University's trustees approved new leadership during their Sept. 8 meeting on the Union campus and said farewell to a handful of trustees rotating off the Board. Robyn Hari presided over her last meeting in her role as board chair and handed leadership off to Jeff Perkins, who has served as vice chairman of the Board and chairman of the finance and audit committee for the last two years. "I'm grateful for  more

JACKSON, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- Union University issued the following news release: Union University has partnered with Volunteer State Community College to provide a pathway for Vol State graduates to matriculate into Union University's traditional and accelerated bachelor's degree programs in nursing in Hendersonville. "This articulation agreement aids in the continual effort to streamline processes for students to pursue careers in nursing," said Allison Davis, associate dean of Union's Coll  more

ATHENS, Georgia, Sept. 1 -- The University of Georgia issued the following news: Harold Alonza Black, emeritus professor of finance at the University of Tennessee and notable University of Georgia alumnus, will deliver the fall undergraduate Commencement address at UGA on Dec. 15 in Stegeman Coliseum. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m., with the graduate ceremony to follow at 2 p.m. Dale Greene, who has served as the dean of UGA's Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources sinc  more

OXFORD, Mississippi, Sept. 4 -- The University of Mississippi issued the following news release: The University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy and the Ole Miss Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will benefit from a gift in excess of $4 million received from the estate of the late alumnus Francis Cerniglia, of Cordova, Tennessee. Cerniglia, who died in August 2022, supported both entities throughout his lifetime. He made a planned gift in 2017, designating the university as beneficiary   more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 -- The University of Tennessee issued the following news: The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees on Friday voted to guarantee admissions for Tennessee's top high school students to all UT System campuses, including Knoxville. The enhanced admissions policy is an effort to further the university's land-grant mission and recruit the brightest Tennessee students. The board also approved renaming the building that houses the Howard H. Baker Jr. School of Public   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release: The University of Memphis is proud to announce its unprecedented achievement of $86 million in research awards in FY23, setting a new record high for the institution. This remarkable feat, which significantly surpassed the previous record of $50 million, is the direct result of the University's strategic efforts to foster a thriving research environment. Building upon its Carnegie R1 status at  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Sept. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee's Chattanooga Campus issued the following news release on Sept. 4, 2023: Speed kills. But the lack of it can maim athletes or put them on the shelf for months. Two years after joining a research partnership with a Boston neurology group, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Professor Gary Wilkerson and company are ready to use their findings to train local high school athletes to improve their reaction times and decrease  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 -- Vanderbilt University School of Nursing issued the following news on Sept. 6, 2023: Vanderbilt University announced today the creation of the Vanderbilt Center for Research on Inequality and Health, a trans-institutional collaboration of the College of Arts and Science and the School of Nursing. The center will convene leading Vanderbilt researchers with deep expertise in economic and social inequality, population health science, LGBTQ+ health policy and gun vio  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Vanderbilt is introducing the Innovation Catalyst Fund, a new internal funding program sponsored by Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Information Technology Brett Sweet. The program is aimed at moving translational research and innovation into real-world solutions more quickly. Inspired by the university's gr  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Vanderbilt researchers have developed a way to more quickly, and precisely, trap nanoscale objects such as potentially cancerous extracellular vesicles using a cutting-edge plasmonic nanotweezer. The practice by Justus Ndukaife, assistant professor of electrical engineering, and Chuchuan Hong, a recently graduated Ph.D. student from the Ndukaife Research Group, and currently a postdoctoral research fello  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: New research from Vanderbilt University Medical Center finds that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) net flow is markedly decreased in Huntington's disease (HD), with the decrease being greater in later stages of the disease. The study was reported in the Annals of Neurology by Kilian Hett, PhD, Daniel Claassen, MD, MS, both from the Department of Neurology, and colleagues from Neurology and Radio  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 6 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Leigh MacMillan Vanderbilt researchers have demonstrated that a cluster of microRNAs -- small pieces of RNA that regulate gene expression -- work in a type of immune cells called macrophages to help protect against metabolic defects in obesity. The findings, published in the journal Cell Reports, provide a glimpse into the function of macrophages in fat tissue and could open new therap  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 7 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news on Sept. 6, 2023: Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have uncovered a potential new way to help curb the rapidly rising worldwide prevalence of metabolic disorders, including obesity and diabetes. Their investigation, reported recently in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, focused on a signaling pathway in adipose (fatty) tissue that is important in the control of metab  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 8 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Vanderbilt's annual Study Abroad Fair exceeded attendance records, hosting more than 400 undergraduate students, 17 campus partners and 10 external study abroad program partners, representing educational opportunities across the globe. The Aug. 29 event also showcased a new, barrier-breaking resource for eligible students: the opportunity to apply for a passport, free of charge. Funded by an Institute of Interna  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Many students from Spanish-speaking homes--whether designated as English learners or not--struggle with English language and reading comprehension, including students born and raised in the U.S. and who attend English-only-instruction schools. These students' low scores on standardized English reading and language assessments are often associated with their disproportionate representation in special educa  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 9 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Earlier this year, the U.S. and Tennessee Departments of Education awarded grants totaling more than $9.9 million to Hilary Travers, PhD'21, research assistant professor of special education, to support transition outcomes of students with disabilities in Tennessee. In April, Travers received a nearly $7.5 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Education to fund the Tennessee Secondary Transition   more