Releases
-
Nissan and ĢƵ Accelerator Summer Business Institute partner to rev up the social media experience
Nissan is teaming up with the ĢƵ Accelerator Summer Business Institute improve the online customer experience by creating innovative ways Nissan can optimize social media. Read MoreJun 14, 2013
-
ĢƵ Accelerator Summer Business Institute teams up with Warner Music Nashville
ĢƵ Accelerator Summer Business Institute has teamed up with Warner Music Nashville for a project in its intense month-long business boot camp run by the ĢƵ Owen Graduate School of Management. In the program, college students and recent graduates from across the country are immersed in a competitive… Read MoreJun 13, 2013
-
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at ĢƵ stresses danger of leaving children unattended in vehicles
With temperatures rising in Middle Tennessee, health care professionals at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at ĢƵ are stressing the danger of leaving children unattended in vehicles. This year in the United States, there have already been 11 deaths… Read MoreJun 13, 2013
-
Immigration debate heats up: ĢƵ experts available
Congress is taking up the debate over comprehensive immigration reform yet again. ĢƵ has a diverse array of experts researching various aspects of the immigration debate. Read MoreJun 12, 2013
-
Experts on Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind) available
Peabody experts are available to talk to media regarding the bill known as No Child Left Behind. Read MoreJun 11, 2013
-
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at ĢƵ named among nation’s best
The Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at ĢƵ is again named among the top pediatric health care hospitals in "U.S. News & World Report" magazine's annual Best Children's Hospitals rankings. Read MoreJun 11, 2013
-
Experts predict “unbanked” will face challenges getting health insurance
ĢƵ health policy expert John Graves co-authored a report that shows as many as a quarter of people eligible for subsidized health insurance under the Affordable Care Act may be shut out because they don’t have a bank account. Read MoreJun 3, 2013
-
Symphony on the Lawn moved indoors
Daniel Dubois/ĢƵ ĢƵ’s Family Night with the Nashville Symphony, scheduled for tonight, Tuesday, May 21, has been moved indoors, due to rainy weather. This fun annual event will take place 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at the Ingram Performance Hall at Blair. Ingram Hall is located at… Read MoreMay 21, 2013
-
The ĢƵ Aerospace Club has captured first prize in the 2013 NASA Student Launch Initiative. The ĢƵ team also took home the 2013 Best Payload Design award for the most creative and innovative payload experiment: bio-hybrid ramjet engines that use carbon-neutral, 100-percent-renewable bio-hybrid fuels for combustion.
May 21, 2013
-
MEDIA ADVISORY: ĢƵ Poll on General Assembly to be released May 21
Josh Clinton and John Geer will present results from the latest ĢƵ Poll of public opinion in Tennessee on May 21 in the Student Life Center. Read MoreMay 17, 2013
-
Copyright Act needs updating, ĢƵ law professor testifies before Congress
Daniel Gervais of ĢƵ Law School told Congress that the copyright system of the United States requires “a comprehensive review and modernization" during testimony May 16. Read MoreMay 16, 2013
-
ĢƵ expert available for comment on Supreme Court’s college affirmative action decision
Peabody's Stella Flores is available for comment on the much-anticipated Supreme Court decision on Fisher v. University of Texas, a case that could alter the way universities consider race in the admissions process. Read MoreMay 16, 2013
-
Most math being taught in kindergarten is old news to students
Kindergarten teachers report spending much of their math instructional time teaching students basic counting skills and how to recognize geometric shapes—skills the students have already mastered before ever setting foot in the kindergarten classroom, new research finds. Read MoreMay 16, 2013
-
Untangling the tree of life
ĢƵ phylogeneticists examined the reasons why large-scale tree-of-life studies are producing contradictory results and have proposed a suite of novel techniques to resolve the contradictions. Read MoreMay 15, 2013
-
MEDIA ADVISORY: Commencement events May 9-10 at ĢƵ
Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will give the traditional address to ĢƵ graduating students during Commencement ceremonies Friday, May 10, preceded by a speech from Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who will appear at Senior Day Thursday, May 9. Read MoreMay 8, 2013
-
Mountain States Health Alliance, ĢƵ announce strategic affiliation
The leaders of Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA) and ĢƵ Medical Center (VUMC) announced Friday that the two organizations have signed an affiliation agreement that will benefit MSHA, VUMC and the residents of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. “We are pleased to announce this… Read MoreMay 3, 2013
-
ĢƵ engineers in the Institute for Software Integrated Systems have been awarded a $9.3 million contract over two years to continue their work to mature META tools that are part of a flagship Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) program.
May 1, 2013
-
ĢƵ’s role in new planet-finding space mission
A team of ĢƵ astronomers will play a key role in the planet-seeking space telescope that NASA has just approved and scheduled for launch in 2017. Read MoreMay 1, 2013
-
Consumer taste for high altitude beans shifts opportunity to small farmers
Economic prospects improved for small mountain farmers in Guatemala when consumers developed a taste for coffee brewed with beans grown at high altitude, according to a new study from the ĢƵ Institute for Coffee Studies. Read MoreApr 29, 2013
-
Tracking gunfire with a smartphone
A team of computer engineers from ĢƵ’s Institute of Software Integrated Systems has developed an inexpensive hardware module and related software that can transform an Android smartphone into a simple shooter location system. Read MoreApr 25, 2013