Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Tennessee
$25 million anonymous gift kick-starts Vanderbilt's new state-of-the-art science building
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- Vanderbilt University School of Engineering posted the following news:
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$25 million anonymous gift kick-starts Vanderbilt's new state-of-the-art science building
Anonymous donors have committed $25 million to build a bold new hub of innovation and discovery at Vanderbilt University--a multipurpose science facility that will shape the future of research and education on campus and beyond.
Located on the site of the former Stevenson Center 6 building, this
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Adams & Reese Launches Blockchain, Digital Assets Practice
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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Adams & Reese Launches Blockchain, Digital Assets Practice
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Adams & Reese has announced the launch of a Blockchain & Digital Assets Practice, led by partner Mike Henson.
The new practice will advise clients on legal and regulatory issues involving blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, digital assets, fintech, Web3, NFTs, smart contracts and other emerging techno
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After Record-Breaking Run, UW-Green Bay Extends AD Josh Moon Through 2031
GREEN BAY, Wisconsin, June 18 -- The University of Wisconsin Green Bay campus issued the following news release:
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After Record-Breaking Run, UW-Green Bay Extends AD Josh Moon Through 2031
Mark Murphy Endowed Director of AthleticsJosh Moon has signed a contract extension with the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay that will keep him at the University through 2031, Chancellor Michael Alexander announced on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
"Josh Moon continues to grow Phoenix Athletics," shared Cha
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Alabama Department of Public Health Issues 2026 Fish Consumption Advisories
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, June 17 -- The Alabama Department of Public Health issued the following news release:
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Alabama Department of Public Health issues 2026 Fish Consumption Advisories
The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) annually updates fish consumption advisories based on data collected the preceding fall by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM).
ADEM, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
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Ascension Saint Thomas Breaks Ground on New Full-Service Hospital and Health Campus in Clarksville
WASHINGTON, June 17 [Category: Health Care] -- Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization, posted the following news release:
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Ascension Saint Thomas Breaks Ground on New Full-Service Hospital and Health Campus in Clarksville
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Ascension Saint Thomas leaders, community officials, physicians and healthcare partners gathered Tuesday to celebrate the groundbreaking of a new full-service hospital and integrated health campus in Clarksville, marking a major milestone in expanding healt
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Ascension Saint Thomas Heart Earns Top National Honors for Quality and Innovation in Cardiovascular Care
WASHINGTON, June 17 [Category: Health Care] -- Ascension, a faith-based healthcare organization, posted the following news release:
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Ascension Saint Thomas Heart Earns Top National Honors for Quality and Innovation in Cardiovascular Care
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Ascension Saint Thomas Heart continues to strengthen its position as a national leader in cardiovascular care, earning multiple recognitions and achieving clinical milestones that reflect its commitment to quality, innovation and patient outcomes.
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Attorney General Alan Wilson supports protecting minors from irreversible sex intervention treatment
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, June 17 -- South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued the following news:
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Attorney General Alan Wilson supports protecting minors from irreversible sex intervention treatment
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Attorney General Alan Wilson recently joined a 23-state friend-of-the-court brief in support of Florida's lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics for misleading and deceptive representations regarding minor gender transition procedures.
Florida's lawsuit contends t
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Baker Donelson Continues Growth of Real Estate Practice in Nashville With Addition of Shareholder Rick Pensinger
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 18 -- Baker Donelson, a law firm, issued the following news release:
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Baker Donelson Continues Growth of Real Estate Practice in Nashville with Addition of Shareholder Rick Pensinger
Richard L. "Rick" Pensinger, a real estate attorney with significant experience in the wireless telecommunications industry, has joined the national law firm Baker Donelson as a shareholder in the Firm's Nashville office. Mr. Pensinger's addition expands the Firm's national real esta
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Chezare A. Warren: Rewriting the Deficit Narrative in Education
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news release:
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Chezare A. Warren: Rewriting the Deficit Narrative in Education
As a middle school math teacher on Chicago's South Side, Chezare A. Warren, now associate professor of leadership, policy and organizations at Peabody College and principal investigator of The Possibilities Project, noticed something interesting.
Connecting with and encouraging favorable outcomes for students who were generally label
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Congressman Cohen Urges Governor Lee to Reverse Decision to Have Sick Children Deported
WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tennessee, issued the following news release:
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Congressman Cohen Urges Governor Lee to Reverse Decision to Have Sick Children Deported
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Department of Health Children's Special Services the target
WASHINGTON - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee urging him to reverse a directive for the Tennessee Department of Health to report immigrant parents and their children who are on the Department's Children's Special Servi
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DOJ Calls for Dismissal of NAACP, xAI Lawsuit
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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DOJ Calls for Dismissal of NAACP, xAI Lawsuit
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has moved to intervene in and dismiss a lawsuit filed by the NAACP and the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, according to the Commercial Appeal.
The lawsuit alleges violations of the Clean Air Act related to the use
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Eastman increases amines prices on July 15, 2026
KINGSPORT, Tennessee, June 16 [Category: BizLaboratory Sciences] -- Eastman Chemical Co. posted the following news:
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Eastman increases amines prices on July 15, 2026
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Effective July 15, 2026, or as contracts allow, Eastman Chemical Company will increase selling prices on the following products in North America:
* Dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA) $0.04/lb
* Amietol (tm) M21 (dimethylaminoethanol, DMAE, DMEA) $0.07/lb
* Amietol (tm) M12 (methyldiethanolamine, MDEA) $0.07/lb
* Amietol
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ETSU researcher explores neuroscience behind recovery
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, June 16 -- East Tennessee State University posted the following news:
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ETSU researcher explores neuroscience behind recovery
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Why do some memories fade while others linger for years?
For Dr. Justin Gass, that question is at the center of his research at East Tennessee State University.
An addiction neuroscientist at ETSU's Quillen College of Medicine, Gass studies how alcohol alters the brain in ways that make addiction recovery more difficult. His work foc
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ETSU researcher studies math success in rural schools
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, June 16 -- East Tennessee State University posted the following news:
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ETSU researcher studies math success in rural schools
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ETSU's Dr. Jingyuan Zhang researches how rural schools can better implement proven math practices to improve student achievement.
Mathematics. Some children naturally excel in working with numbers and equations, while others struggle mightily with it, and educators continually seek to improve teaching practices that help their students
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Hagerty Opposes Biden-Era Weaponization of the DOJ against Conservatives on Senate Floor
WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release:
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Hagerty Opposes Biden-Era Weaponization of the DOJ against Conservatives on Senate Floor
Senate Democrats attempted to codify language against the Trump Administration's Anti-Weaponization Fund into law
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On Tuesday, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) spoke on the Senate floor to speak out against the Biden administration's weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ) against conserv
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ICYMI--Hagerty JoinsMornings With Maria on FOX Business to Discuss the Proposed Peace Deal with Iran
WASHINGTON, June 17 -- Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee, issued the following news release:
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ICYMI--Hagerty JoinsMornings With Maria on FOX Business to Discuss the Proposed Peace Deal with Iran
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Today, United States Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Banking Committees, joined Mornings With Maria on FOX Business to discuss the president's interim memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran, the CLARITY Act and Reconciliation 3.0.
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John Farringer Takes Office as TBA President-Elect
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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John Farringer Takes Office as TBA President-Elect
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NASHVILLE, June 17, 2026 -Nashville lawyer John L. Farringer IV took office as president-elect of the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) last week during the group's Annual Convention in Knoxville. He will advance to the presidency in June 2027.
A member of the law firm Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, Farringer has
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June 'Out of the Blue' explores MTSU's Center for Popular Music and its growing archives [+VIDEO]
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee, June 17 -- Middle Tennessee State University posted the following news:
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June 'Out of the Blue' explores MTSU's Center for Popular Music and its growing archives [+VIDEO]
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -"Out of the Blue," Middle Tennessee State University's monthly television magazine program, takes viewers inside the Center for Popular Music in the June episode, highlighting the nationally recognized archive and a major collection recently added to its holdings.
Locat
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Mary Beth Maddox Takes Office as TBA Vice President
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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Mary Beth Maddox Takes Office as TBA Vice President
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NASHVILLE, June 17, 2026 -Knoxville lawyer Mary Beth Maddox took office as vice president of the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) last week during the group's Annual Convention in Knoxville. She will advance to the position of president-elect in June 2027 and to the presidency in June 2028.
Maddox, a partner wi
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Millions Gain Control Over Data in Google Settlement
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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Millions Gain Control Over Data in Google Settlement
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A federal judge recently approved a class-action settlement with Google that provides hundreds of millions of U.S. account holders with a new way to limit the sharing of personal information in real-time bidding (RTB) advertising auctions, according to a release from Stranch, Jennings & Garvey, a Nashville law
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MTSU trustees outline presidential search process
MURFREESBORO, Tennessee, June 17 -- Middle Tennessee State University posted the following news:
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MTSU trustees outline presidential search process
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Middle Tennessee State University's Board of Trustees on Tuesday, June 16, outlined the process it will follow to hire a new president to replace Sidney A. McPhee, who will step down from his leadership role at the end of this year.
Board Chairman Stephen B. Smith said a Presidential Search Committee will be appointed by July and will e
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New TBA Officers, Board Members Take Office
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Tennessee Bar Association posted the following commentary blog:
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New TBA Officers, Board Members Take Office
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TBA's new executive officers and new Board of Governors members took office last Friday at the Annual Convention in Knoxville. Officers for the upcoming bar year are: President Charlotte Knight Griffin of Eads, President-Elect John Farringer of Nashville, Vice President Mary Beth Maddox of Knoxville, Secretary Terica Sm
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Peabody partnership brings engineering to life for students with dyslexia
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news release:
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Peabody partnership brings engineering to life for students with dyslexia
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In Vanderbilt's Magnolia Makerspace on a breezy April morning, the school year was winding down for Roberts Academy for Dyslexia fourth and fifth graders. It was a time of year when young learners might be daydreaming about summer vacations and pool days. But that Tuesday, all attention was on the lesson at hand: a boat fl
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Pole Attachments in Broadband Deployment Topic of CRS Report
WASHINGTON, June 17 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48992) entitled "Pole Attachments in Broadband Deployment: Selected Issues" by telecommunications policy specialist Colby Leigh Pechtol.
Here are excerpts:
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SUMMARY
Broadband is a powerful communications technology that supports many applications. Closing the gap between people who have access to broadband and those who do not - the digital divide - has been a long-standing congressiona
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Policy Drives Deployments: Zero-Emission Trucks Represented Over 4 Percent of New Truck Deployments in the Second Half of 2025, According to CALSTART's June 2026 ZET Report
PASADENA, California, June 17 (TNSrpt) -- CALSTART, an organization that says it works with member companies to build a clean transportation industry, issued the following news release:
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Policy Drives Deployments: Zero-Emission Trucks Represented Over 4 Percent of New Truck Deployments in the Second Half of 2025, According to CALSTART's June 2026 ZET Report
When adjusting for truck stock and segment, California, New York, and Pennsylvania are performing above the national average for ZET
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Record Number of USD Voice Students Advance to National Student Auditions
VERMILLION, South Dakota, June 17 -- The University of South Dakota posted the following news:
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Record Number of USD Voice Students Advance to National Student Auditions
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To qualify, singers had to place in the top five of their respective divisions at the regional level and then in the top 15 in the national preliminary round. Singers from across the U.S. and Canada, and from international NATS chapters, were eligible to compete.
The students representing USD are:
* Clara Norell,
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St. Jude redesignated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer
MEMPHIS, Tennessee, June 17 [Category: BizHospital] -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital issued the following news release:
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St. Jude redesignated as WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has been redesignated as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer. The redesignation recognizes the hospital's contribution to WHO's work through the provision of strategic, scientific and technical expertise in childhood cancer. It also reaffi
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Tenn. Economic Dept.: Homeland Vinyl Products to Expand in Hawkins County
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 18 -- The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development issued the following news on June 17, 2026:
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Homeland Vinyl Products to Expand in Hawkins County
* Vinyl manufacturer to create 50 new jobs, invest $5.5 million in Surgoinsville, Tennessee
* Announcement marks the third expansion following company's move to Tennessee in 2015
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Deputy Gov. and Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. Mc
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Tenn. Financial Institutions Commissioner Gonzales Announces Weekly Formula Rate June 16, 2026
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- Tennessee Department of Financial Institutions issued the following news:
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COMMISSIONER GONZALES ANNOUNCES WEEKLY FORMULA RATE JUNE 16, 2026
Commissioner of Financial Institutions Greg Gonzales announced today that the maximum effective formula rate of interest in Tennessee is 10.75 percent per annum.
The rate is based on a ceiling of 4 percent over the weekly average prime loan rate of 6.75 percent as published by the Federal Reserve on June 15, 2026.
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Tennessee Tech establishes Charles F. Douglas Scholarship to support future educators
COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release:
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Tennessee Tech establishes Charles F. Douglas Scholarship to support future educators
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A final act of generosity by Tennessee Tech University alumnus Charles F. Douglas will help future generations of educators through a new endowed scholarship established in his name.
The scholarship honors Douglas's legacy as an educator, counselor and public servant. He earned his bachelor's de
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UT Honors High School Seniors With Distinguished Tennessean Scholarships
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- The University of Tennessee posted the following news:
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UT Honors High School Seniors With Distinguished Tennessean Scholarships
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This fall, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will welcome at least 94 first-year students from across the state as its newest class of Distinguished Tennessean Scholars. Their selection reflects UT's ongoing commitment to providing Tennessee students with scholarship opportunities and pathways to higher education.
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UTIA Agricultural Policy Expert Wins Farm Foundation Award
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, June 17 -- The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture issued the following news release:
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UTIA Agricultural Policy Expert Wins Farm Foundation Award
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Andrew Muhammad receives R.J. Hildreth Public Policy Award for career achievement
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Andrew Muhammad, professor and Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy at the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, is the 2026 recipient of the R.J. Hildreth Public Policy Award
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