NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSacc) -- Belmont University issued the following news release: The newly launched Strategic Leadership in Education (SLE) Ph.D. at Belmont University has received full accreditation status through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Belmont's accrediting body. Housed in the College of Education, the program's core courses are multidisciplinary and rooted in educational leadership theory and literature. Students will have the o  more

HENDERSON, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSacc) -- Freed-Hardeman University issued the following news: The Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) has granted Freed-Hardeman University Candidate for Accreditation Status, according to Dr. C.J. Vires, FHU Provost and Vice President of Academics. The inaugural cohort of the PTA program will begin courses Fall 2022, with applications still being accepted at this time. Students who have a bachelor's degree or have completed require  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSconf) -- Chattanooga State Community College issued the following news release: Sarah Mattson, senior small business specialist, and Madison McCann, office supervisor and marketing coordinator, were recently recognized during the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) All Hands Conference. Ms. Mattson, named a State Star, has been with the TSBDC since 2017. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, financial analysis and forecasting, bus  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Aug. 2 -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news on Aug. 1, 2022: Earlier today, East Tennessee State University notified Women's Basketball Head Coach Simon Harris of the university's intent to terminate Harris's employment effective at 5 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2022. Harris will be suspended with pay effective immediately. During the spring 2022 academic semester, former members of the women's basketball team filed a Title IX complaint alleging   more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSper) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: East Tennessee State University's Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Scott Carter, is stepping down from his position, effective immediately. "Earlier this morning, I accepted the resignation of the Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Scott Carter," said ETSU President Dr. Brian Noland. "During his tenure as Athletic Director, Mr. Carter helped our student-athletes win championships, br  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSfund) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced it awarded $467,000 in grant funding to East Tennessee State University to fund a project known as Libraries Count. Led by ETSU faculty member Dr. Alissa Lange, Libraries Count will be a professional learning program that supports library staff in their work integrating math into programming for young children and their famili  more

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, Aug. 3 (TNSper) -- East Tennessee State University issued the following news: Dr. Kenneth E. Olive of East Tennessee State University has been selected to serve on the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the American Medical Association and Association of American Medical Colleges. Olive, who will serve a three-year term, is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and associate dean for accreditation compliance in ETSU's Quillen College of Medi  more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSper) -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release: Baker Donelson has named Eric L. Pruitt as chair of the Firm's Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Group. A shareholder in Baker Donelson's Birmingham office, Mr. Pruitt will lead a team of nearly 40 attorneys throughout the Firm's footprint who assist clients with litigation and transactions relating to all types of bankruptcy and insolvency issues. While serving as the group's chair, he w  more

GREENVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSper) -- Tusculum University issued the following news: By Jim Wozniak Dr. Faisal Al-khateeb, an associate professor of computer science, has been selected as the new chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Tusculum University. Dr. Al-khateeb has served at Tusculum since 2019. During his academic career, which has spanned about 22 years, Dr. Al-khateeb has taught a wide range of subjects, including cyber security, e-commerce and managing da  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSawa) -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: By Janel Shoun-Smith Perry Moore, Charles E. Frasier Professor of Accountancy, was awarded the Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award by the Association for International Certified Professional Accountants. Moore was awarded for a classroom strategy he developed called "Using MONOPOLY as a Practice Set in an Advanced Auditing Course." In addition to receiving a monetary prize, Moore demonstra  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSawa) -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: Perry Moore, Charles E. Frasier Professor of Accountancy, was awarded the Mark Chain/FSA Innovation in Graduate Teaching Award by the Association for International Certified Professional Accountants. Moore was awarded for a classroom strategy he developed called "Using MONOPOLY as a Practice Set in an Advanced Auditing Course." In addition to receiving a monetary prize, Moore demonstrated the strategy at a   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSeco) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt recently launched an innovative program geared to treat pediatric and adolescent athletes. The Vanderbilt Youth Sports Health Center, the only one of its kind in the region, opened through a partnership between Vanderbilt Sports Medicine and Children's Hospital. "The same specialists who care for our elite sports teams like Nashville SC,   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 -- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III issued the following news on Aug. 2, 2022: Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today announced that Tennessee is joining a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force of 50 attorneys general to investigate and take legal action against the telecommunications companies responsible for bringing a majority of foreign robocalls into the United States. This bipartisan nationwide Task Force has one goal: to cut down  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 4 -- Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III issued the following news: Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has filed a lawsuit against Walgreens in Knox County Circuit Court for violations of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, violating Tennessee's public nuisance statute, and creating a common law public nuisance through its unlawful sale and distribution of opioids. Its failure to maintain effective controls against abuse and diversion has directly c  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSper) -- The Tennessee Arts Commission issued the following news: By Hal Partlow, Associate Director of Operations In June this year, Sarah Williams joined the Tennessee Arts Commission as Director of Grants Management. Sarah comes to the Commission from the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, where she served as the Museum Curator at the Tennessee Agricultural Museum. "Sarah's background in both grant administration and nonprofit management will serve the Co  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSper) -- The Tennessee Arts Commission issued the following news: By Ann Brown, Associate Director of Grants Chris Sweatt has joined the Tennessee Arts Commission as Director of Arts Education. Chris comes to us from Jackson Preparatory School in Jackson, Mississippi, where he worked as Director of Choral Music. At Jackson Prep, Chris was responsible for producing a variety of large-scale performances and events, directing all choral ensembles, and teaching all  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release: With the 2022-23 school year beginning across the state, the Tennessee Department of Education has launched the "Know More, Learn More TN" campaign to encourage all Tennessee parents and families to log in to the redesigned TCAP Family Portal for on-demand access to their student's TCAP assessment results. This year, the Family Portal has been redesigned to improve user friendliness, offer  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 -- The Tennessee Department of Education issued the following news release on Aug. 4, 2022: The Tennessee Department of Education announced applications are open for districts that submitted intents to apply for the $500 million Innovative School Models Grant, which will reimagine opportunities for career readiness and student success statewide. Throughout the month of July, the department celebrated Innovative School Models month, with releasing the intent to app  more

COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSres) -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: Tennessee Tech University manufacturing engineering technology students will see a friendly new face in the lab this fall, and his name is Sawyer. A one-armed robot with animated human features, the Sawyer Robot System and Pedestal is a cobot, or collaborative robot, donated to the College of Engineering by Centro, Inc., a Memphis-based company that supplies control and automation pr  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSpar) -- The University of Tennessee issued the following news: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has committed to amplifying college access and educational opportunities for middle school and high school students through a five-year partnership with the Change Center, an organization working to provide recreation, leadership development, and job opportunities to young adults in Knoxville's center-city communities. The new partnership will include regular   more

MEMPHIS, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center issued the following news: The National Institute of General Medical Sciences recently awarded $1.23 million to Ronald "Nick" Laribee, PhD, associate professor in the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Laribee is the lead investigator on a project to determine how the epigenome receives crucial nutrient  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 -- The University of Tennessee's Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Shelby Bottoms Nature Center in Nashville, Tennessee, has come on board as the newest participating Tennessee Smart Yards Community. The program is a collaboration between University of Tennessee Extension, local municipal governments and communities. Tennessee Smart Yard Communities are community organizations that strive to create healthier, more ecologically-sound lan  more

LOGAN, Utah, Aug. 2 -- Utah State University issued the following news: A team from Utah State University has won the $10,000 grand prize at this year's International Future Energy Challenge in Knoxville, Tennessee. The win is a major accomplishment for the students and a first for USU. Undergrads Dakota Goodrich, Conner Sabin, Tucker Skinner, Mckay Waite and graduate mentors Sanat Poddar and Aditya Zade and faculty advisor Hongjie Wang outcompeted six other teams from around the globe to take  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSres) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Vanderbilt University Medical Center was recently listed as a Designated Scleroderma Research and Treatment Center by the National Scleroderma Foundation. To receive designation institutions must meet high standards in scleroderma treatment, research and education. Scleroderma is a rare rheumatic disease that affects connective tissue and the vascular system producing excessive collagen th  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSper) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Chris Wilson, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, senior director of Nursing Education and Professional Development, retired at the end of July, 45 years after she first came to Vanderbilt as a student nurse. Wilson was a rising senior at the University of Evansville (Indiana), when she joined a summer nursing program at the Medical Center. She fell in love with Vanderbilt and started a four-decade long caree  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Harvard Medical School (HMS) will participate in the American Medical Association Foundation (AMAF) National LGBTQ+ Fellowship Program consortium of institutions. The institutions will each receive a $750,000 grant and join the pilot fellowship at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, sel  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 4 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: In vitro fertilization (IVF), fertilizing eggs in the laboratory, not only enables otherwise infertile couples to conceive children but, by screening embryos before implanting them in the womb, to avoid passing severe and fatal inherited conditions like Tay-Sachs disease to their offspring. Companies also have begun to screen embryos for the risk of developing complex diseases, including ps  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: A philanthropic gift of a patient care coordinator designated to assist female bladder cancer patients in education, clinical decision-making, surveillance, support and even screening, is the first of its kind at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Brianne "Bree" Duncan, research nurse specialist III, is the first recipient of the Gail Kraemer Care Coordinator for Female Bladder Cancer Patients po  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: The bacterium Helicobacter pylori infects the stomach and is a strong risk factor for gastric cancer. About 33% of U.S. adults have been infected with H. pylori, which has also been implicated in the development of colorectal and pancreatic cancers and may increase the risk of lung cancer. To explore H. pylori infection and lung cancer risk, Qiuyin Cai, MD, PhD, and colleagues conducted a n  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSacc) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Nurse Residency Program has been awarded its second Accreditation with Distinction as a Practice Transition Program (PTAP) by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs. The program was originally accredited in 2019. The new accreditation comprises Vanderbilt University Hospital (newly   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Self-reported antibiotic allergies that end up in a patient's electronic health record are common, but may lead to worse patient outcomes. In patients who are immunocompromised, antibiotic allergies may limit options for antibiotics they must take prophylactically or therapeutically. In many cases, since alternative medications are more costly, it's a limitation that can end up costing the   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 6 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: A clinical trial to test whether three proven smoking cessation treatments could also reduce alcohol intake found no differences between the medications, but the rates of behavior change for alcohol consumption and smoking were high in all treatment groups. Results suggest these medications could play an important role to reduce alcohol use and smoking at the same time. Unexpectedly, nicoti  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 5 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: More than half of children diagnosed with influenza and deemed high risk for flu-related complications were given the recommended antiviral treatment, according to data released from a recent study. According to the lead author, James Antoon, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, national organizations and treatment guidelines rec  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 3 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news: Pregnancy in patients with lung cancer is uncommon. There are limited safety data during pregnancy for ALK inhibitors -- targeted therapies for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with ALK gene rearrangements. Wade Iams, MD, MSCI, Travis Osterman, DO, MS, and colleagues report the case of a patient with metastatic ALK-rearranged NSCLC who was treated with the ALK inhibitor alec  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 2 (TNSper) -- The University of Tennessee System issued the following news release: Longtime economic development veteran Victoria Hirschberg has been named assistant vice president for research, outreach and economic development for the University of Tennessee System. Hirschberg, currently business development director for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD), will create and implement innovation, community, and industry partnership  more