CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, July 2 (TNSper) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: The Community School of the Arts (CSA) at Austin Peay State University has announced the hiring of a new coordinator - Kevin Loveland Jr. Loveland, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in dance from Austin Peay in 2012, has been an adjunct professor in APSU's Department of Theatre and Dance since 2018. Loveland also holds a Master of Fine Arts in Danc  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 28 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Baker Donelson has added Chad M. Wilgenbusch to its Financial Services Transactions Group. Mr. Wilgenbusch, who joins as of counsel in the Firm's Memphis office, focuses his practice on commercial real estate, secured lending and economic development. He counsels clients in a wide array of matters including real estate sales and purchases, lending, leasing, state and local incentives, and gen  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSfund) -- Chattanooga State Community College issued the following news release on June 29, 2022: Chattanooga State Community College was one of seven community and technical colleges awarded a READI (Recruit, Engage And Develop for Innovation) Grant to boost career and technical education programs through the federal Perkins Grant program. Following a competitive application process, Chattanooga State came out on top of the seven colleges selected with a grant  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, July 2 (TNSper) -- Chattanooga State Community College issued the following news release: Chattanooga State's Dwight Hunter will officially step into the role of president for the Tennessee Library Association (TNLA) for the 2022-2023 year on July 1 after serving as vice president/president elect during 2021-2022. Hunter, a librarian in Chattanooga State's Kolwyck Library and Information Commons (KLIC) since 1992, holds a master's degree in Information Systems (MSIS) fro  more

CLEVELAND, Tennessee, June 30 -- Lee University issued the following news: The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded grants to Lee University's Helen DeVos College of Education (HDCOE) and the Center for English Language & Literacy (C.E.L.L.). Dr. Laura Anderson and Dr. Debbie Rosenow, education professors at Lee, received a summer reading grant from the Foundation. With this funding, they held a weeklong reading, writing, and robotics camp for children from ages 1st-6th grade ca  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, June 30 (TNSbook) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: East Tennessee State University experts have contributed to a new award-winning book that explores the myriad health issues and challenges facing the people of Appalachia. "Appalachian Health: Culture, Challenges, and Capacity" is co-edited by Dr. Randy Wykoff, dean of the East Tennessee State University College of Public Health, and the late Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield of the University of   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 28 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Baker Donelson has expanded its Business Litigation Group with the addition of Jason B. Bloom as of counsel in the Firm's Fort Lauderdale office. Mr. Bloom, who focuses his legal practice on the hospitality and transportation industries, has extensive experience representing clients in matters involving commercial litigation, outside general counsel, contract negotiations, complex torts and i  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 28 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Ashby M. Angell, a labor and employment lawyer who assists clients with a range of issues including discrimination, sexual harassment, and non-compete agreements, has joined Baker Donelson as of counsel in the Firm's Chattanooga office. Ms. Angell focuses exclusively on labor and employment law across various industries including manufacturing, health care, and media. She represents employers  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 2 (TNSres) -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: * * * Private donation and grant expands learning and discovery opportunities through wind tunnel. * * * Not many students get the opportunity to actually build a better education for those who follow them. For Lipscomb's engineering majors in the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering, however, it just comes with the territory. This summer, thanks to the 2019 donation of a wind tunnel and annual grants  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSres) -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: * * * New office is the first stone in the foundation of a one-stop shop in the Office of the Provost for supporting faculty in student-centered research and scholarly endeavors. * * * In response to ever-increasing research endeavors and the campuswide emergence of a desire to advance research at Lipscomb, Lipscomb President Dr. Candice McQueen announced the establishment of the Office of Research and Gr  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 29 (TNSres) -- The University of Memphis issued the following news release: "Facing Down Storms: Memphis and the Making of Ida B. Wells," a production of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis, will be shown on July 21 and July 28 at 7 p.m. at the Malco Studio on the Square, 2105 Court Ave., in Memphis. General Admission Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased by clicking here. About Facing Down Storms Memphis and the Making o  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 -- The Nashville International Airport issued the following news release on June 30, 2022: Nashville International Airport(R) today announced a record-breaking year, with 18.4 million total travelers at the end of its fiscal year, 7% higher than the previous record year 2019. Additional record-breaking statistics include: * May 2022, BNA served 840,258 departing passengers, making it the largest number of screened passengers in a single month. * June 26, 2022 was  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news on June 30, 2022: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Toast officials announced today that Toast, Inc., the all-in-one digital platform built for restaurants, will establish its new configuration facility in Tennessee, selecting Antioch as the first location. Founded and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts,  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 28 -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release: The Tennessee Department of Education invites all Tennesseans to a public rulemaking hearing to respond to the proposed rules for the Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA) Act. The hearing will take place on Thursday, July 28th from 9 a.m. CT - 12 noon CT in Nashville, TN, and a livestream option will be available for attendees statewide to participate virtually. TISA Public R  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSper) -- Gov. Bill Lee, R-Tennessee, issued the following news on July 1, 2022: Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced he will appoint Troy Haley to serve as Administrator of the Tennessee Bureau of Workers' Compensation within the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, effective immediately. Lee also named key appointments to the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board. "Troy is a dedicated public servant, and I thank him for his willingness to tak  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: Tennessee Tech University's campus has become home to 30 of the brightest high school juniors and seniors in the state who are interested in business, innovation and technology. During the month of June, the students are living on campus while learning from university professors and business leaders during the Governor's School for Technological Innovation and Business Leadership. "It brings  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 -- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III issued the following statement on June 28, 2022: * * * Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III issued the following statement after the full Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously vacated the district court's injunction of the timing provisions in the Tennessee "Heartbeat Bill" in Memphis Center for Reproductive Health v. Slatery. "Tennesseans, through their elected representatives, passed the "Heartbeat Bill"  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 28 -- The Tennessee Military Department issued the following news release: Nearly 35 Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard's 1-107th Airfield Operations Battalion, headquartered in Tullahoma, returned home June 24-26, after a successful 10-month deployment to the Horn of Africa. The Soldiers flew into various airports throughout Tennessee over the weekend and were greeted by fellow Soldiers, family, and friends. The unit has been out-processing at Fort Hood, Te  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee issued the following news: Carrie Castille, who most recently served as director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the federal science agency within the US Department of Agriculture, will begin her role as senior vice chancellor and senior vice president for the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture July 1. With almost 25 years of experience in federal and state government and public higher educati  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: Carrie Castille, who most recently served as director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the federal science agency within the US Department of Agriculture, will begin her role as senior vice chancellor and senior vice president for the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture July 1. With almost 25 years of experience in federal and state g  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: Matthew Backus, research coordinator with the University of Tennessee's Middle Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center, has been appointed as the new assistant director of the Ames AgResearch and Education Center in Grand Junction, Tennessee. The center is one of ten research and education centers operated by University of Tennessee AgResearch, a division of the   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 1 (TNSawa) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: The Academy for Excellence in Education is pleased to announce Mario Davidson, PhD, is the recipient of the 2022 Geoffrey David Chazen Faculty Award for Innovation in Medical Education. The Geoffrey David Chazen Award was first awarded in 1998. The award was established to honor the memory of Dr. Chazen, a Vanderbilt School of Medicine alumnus. This award for innovation in medical education  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 28 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Bill Snyder Commitment to inclusion, professional development, research, and clinical care was the focus of this year's State of the Department of Medicine address delivered June 23 by Department of Medicine Chair Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD. "Diversity, equity and inclusion is one of the core parts of the Department of Medicine," said Rathmell, the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor of Medicine. "This  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Jake Lowary A new study led by researchers in the Department of Health Policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and students in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine finds that both gender dysphoria diagnoses and use of gender therapies have increased substantially between 2013 and 2019. The study was published recently in the Journal of General Internal Medicine and analy  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 29 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Tom Wilemon A health care system model that offered tobacco cessation treatment to smokers being discharged from a hospital produced a higher rate of tobacco abstinence during the three-month program than referral to a state-based telephone quitline, but the advantage disappeared at six months when both treatments produced comparable quit rates, researchers have found. In a study in JA  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 30 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: By Jill Clendening Patients whose race is recorded as Black in their electronic health record (EHR) are more likely to have azathioprine, an immunosuppressant medication, discontinued or its dose reduced because their laboratory results show a low white blood cell count. This lab finding was not a factor of race, but instead was linked to a genetic variant found in some people of African   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 30 (TNSper) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Vanderbilt University has named John Kuriyan, PhD, one of the world's leading structural biologists, as its next dean of the School of Medicine Basic Sciences, C. Cybele Raver, provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, announced. Kuriyan's appointment, effective Jan. 1, 2023, will advance the University's goal of expanding its global research impact by leveraging fundamental invest  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 28 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University School of Nursing issued the following news: By Tatum Lyles Flick Nurse-midwives and educators from three prominent research universities have teamed up to improve pregnancy outcomes in Black communities by providing specialized training for doulas, persons who support birthing mothers and families through the entire process of childbirth. The Alliance of Black Doulas for Black Mamas is led by Vanderbilt University School of Nurs  more

GALLATIN, Tennessee, July 2 (TNSper) -- Welch College issued the following news release: Todd Parrish assumes a new role as Vice President for Institutional Advancement on July 1 after the retirement of David Williford, according to President Matt Pinson. Parrish came to Welch in January 2018 as Director of Church Relations and Major Gifts Officer before transitioning to the role of Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement in May 2021. In his new role, he will engage in the over  more