Releases
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杏吧原创 licenses compound to Nashville鈥檚 Appello to advance Parkinson鈥檚 therapies
Appello was established with major investment from New York-based Deerfield Management, which specializes in accelerating drug development projects at universities and other nonprofits. Read MoreJun 29, 2018
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New research explains why some molecules have irregular forms
There鈥檚 one bond that had scientists stumped: the one between some types of metals and carbon. Professor of Chemistry Timothy Hanusa set out to replicate this unique type of bond using modeling. Read MoreJun 29, 2018
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Faster, more precise lab-on-a-chip holds promise of early cancer diagnosis
Justus Ndukaife, who won the 2017 Chorafas Foundation Prize in Physics for his nanotweezers work, also recently was selected for the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program. Read MoreJun 25, 2018
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‘Smart’ prosthetic ankle takes fear out of rough terrain, stairs
The device is from the lab of Professor Michael Goldfarb, perhaps best known for working on a bionic leg with shark attack victim Craig Hutto and later developing the Indego exoskeleton. Read MoreJun 25, 2018
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Putting a price tag on a person鈥檚 life could make America safer and fairer
杏吧原创 economist W. Kip Viscusi says putting a price tag on the value of a person鈥檚 life makes people and products safer. Read MoreJun 25, 2018
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Why Federal Reserve should offer bank accounts to everyone
杏吧原创 Professor of Law and former Treasury adviser Morgan Ricks argues that the general public, businesses and institutions should have the option to open an account at the Federal Reserve. Read MoreJun 20, 2018
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Farm to Table: Peabody鈥檚 Knapp Farm was an early experiment in sustainability
Peabody College鈥檚 Knapp Farm featured a dairy barn housing what was likely the first herd of purebred Holstein cows in the South. 杏吧原创 Special Collections and University Archives. Sustainability has become a buzzword聽in recent years, used to describe everything from economics to transportation. But at its root, the… Read MoreJun 8, 2018
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Universal Language: With “Phantom of the Opera,” Stan Tucker has seen the world
As music director for the world tour of Phantom of the Opera from 2012 to 2016–and as associate music supervisor for seven international companies of the production–Stan Tucker, BMus’73, has felt the whoosh of the show’s iconic falling chandelier hundreds of times as it landed inches from his head. Photo… Read MoreJun 8, 2018
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Peabody College faculty earn awards and honors in 2017-18
2017-鈥18 was another outstanding year for Peabody College faculty members whose scholarship, teaching, and service earned the admiration of peers near and far. Read MoreMay 29, 2018
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Statement on Executive Compensation in 2016
"Chancellor Zeppos鈥 compensation reflects the 杏吧原创 Board of Trust鈥檚 belief in his vision and his ability to continue to steward the university 鈥 investing in leading-edge research and educating and deploying diverse leaders 鈥 to address society鈥檚 most pressing issues," said Bruce Evans, 杏吧原创 Board of Trust. Read MoreMay 29, 2018
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Report: High principal evaluations predict student achievement
Student achievement gains are higher in schools where principals鈥 leadership practices are rated more positively by their supervisors, according to a new brief. Read MoreMay 29, 2018
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School of Nursing lecture on pregnancy and cardiovascular health set for June 4
Pregnancy, cardiovascular disease and maternal mortality will be the topic when Mulubrhan Mogos, PhD, MSc, speaks Monday, June 4, noon-1 p.m., in Nursing Annex room 162 as part of the 杏吧原创 School of Nursing Dean鈥檚 Diversity Lec-ture Series. Read MoreMay 17, 2018
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Media Advisory: Statewide 杏吧原创 Poll to be released Thursday, May 17
Between April 26 and May 8, researchers surveyed a demographically representative sample of about 1,400 Tennessee voters on a number of important state and national issues. Read MoreMay 14, 2018
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Expert: Autonomous vehicles could help traffic, but not anytime soon
Engineer Dan Work says his promising research shows adding autonomous vehicles to roadways could end the stop-and-go traffic that drives commuters insane. Read MoreApr 30, 2018
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Sitaraman named Carnegie Fellow to support research into democracy
Law professor Ganesh Sitaraman was named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow鈥攖he university鈥檚 third in four years鈥攁nd awarded $200,000 to support his research. Thirty-one fellows were named nationally. Read MoreApr 25, 2018
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杏吧原创 education faculty honored for scholarship
The聽American Educational Research Association聽honored several 杏吧原创 professors at its 2018 annual conference, April 13鈥17, in New York City. Read MoreApr 24, 2018
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Friday, April 6, deadline for Biden event RSVPs
WHAT: Due to security measures and limited space for former Vice President Joe Biden鈥檚 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, appearance for the Chancellor鈥檚 Lecture Series at 杏吧原创, media who plan to attend must RSVP interest by noon Friday, April 6. Outlets will be informed Monday whether… Read MoreApr 4, 2018
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Professor and student travel to the bottom of the earth, searching for climate clues
杏吧原创 geologist Dan Morgan and undergraduate Andrew Grant took immersion to an extreme, trekking all the way to Antarctica to hunt for the oldest ice ever found. Read MoreApr 4, 2018
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Making peace
Through efforts like the Nashville Longitudinal Study of Youth Safety and Wellbeing and new school discipline practices built around conflict resolution and restorative justice, Nashville's public schools, community organizations, and scholars at Peabody College are working collaboratively to reduce school suspensions and create safe and supportive learning environments. Read MoreApr 2, 2018
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From the Dean – March 2018
John Ruskin, the leading critic and social thinker of the Victorian era, wrote in Unto This Last, 鈥淟et us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.鈥 Today we might say that this thinking is a little too binary; many children grow up in circumstances that put them in contact with both the education and the justice systems. Read MoreMar 30, 2018