University News and Communications publishes VUToday, a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Here, read a selection of those Vanderbilt news stories for the week of May 29. To subscribe to the daily VUToday newsletter, visit news.vanderbilt.edu/vutoday.
NPR’s All Things Considered: Using music and rhythm to help kids with grammar and language
The Music, Mind and Society trans-institutional program and Reyna Gordon, director of Music Cognition Lab are featured. Gordon, assistant professor of otolaryngology and of psychology, studies the connections between rhythm and grammar and how rhythm and music training help children with atypical language development. Gordon, members of the Blair School of Music and others who are involved with the research are interviewed and some are pictured in a summary of the NPR report. Others featured in the reports include Sara Johnson, adjunct artist teacher of Suzuki violin, and Emelyne Bingham, senior lecturer in the teaching of music.
U.S. News & World Report: Poll: 2 in 3 Tennessee voters favor immigrant tuition break
A new Vanderbilt University poll says about two of three Tennessee registered voters think students whose parents brought or kept them in the country illegally should be eligible for in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities. Poll co-directors Josh Clinton, Abby and Jon Winkelried Professor of Political Science, and John Geer, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science, are quoted. Related stories were published by The Tennessean and Chattanooga Times Free Press.
PBS’ The Open Mind: Rescuing the Middle Class Republic
Ganesh Sitaraman, professor of law, is interviewed about his book The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic on this nationally televised public affairs program.
USA Today: Youth suicide rates are rising. School and the Internet may be to blame.
A new study has found that the number of children and teens admitted to children’s hospitals for thoughts of suicide or self-harm have more than doubled during the last decade. The data also found higher rates of suicidal patients during the fall and the spring, but not during the summer. Lead author Gregory Plemmons, associate professor of clinical pediatrics, is quoted.
U.S. News & World Report: Vanderbilt grad traveling the globe to study fatherhood
Recent Vanderbilt graduate Nigel Walker is interviewed about his plans to travel to all seven continents in a year to understand the role fathers play across cultures and families—an effort that is a part of a global study supported by Vanderbilt’s Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship.