University News and Communications publishes VUToday, a compilation of Vanderbilt mentions in the media, each weekday. Read a selection of Vanderbilt news stories for the week of June 19.
American School & University: Vanderbilt University begins work on nursing school expansion
Vanderbilt University has broken ground on a $26.3 million expansion of its School of Nursing facility. The five-floor structure will house technologically advanced classrooms, conference and seminar rooms, student services offices, faculty offices and a state-of-the-art simulation teaching lab that will allow complex skills development and real-time feedback on students’ clinical nursing skills. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and Linda Norman, dean of the school of nursing, are quoted. Susan Wente, university provost, is mentioned.
Nashville Public Radio: Nashville’s total solar eclipse will be live-streamed, thanks to Vanderbilt students and NASA
In the era of Facebook Live and other on-demand video, it’s perhaps no surprise that the largest celestial event in America this summer will be live-streamed. Students from Vanderbilt University will launch a high-altitude weather balloon — connected to a video camera — to send images of the total solar eclipse back to NASA on Aug. 21. The team held its first test launch Tuesday, led by mechanical engineering grad student Adam Jarrell. Jarrell and Tim Holman, research associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are quoted.
The Wall Street Journal: Academics clash over VIX bragging rights
Two academics who said they did early work on a gauge of stock-market volatility fear they are being written out of its history. Robert Whaley, Valere Blair Potter Professor of Finance, is quoted about his development of the formula for the CBOE’s volatility index (VIX).
Phys.org: Wet and stormy weather lashed California coast… 8,200 years ago
The weather report for California 8,200 years ago was exceptionally wet and stormy. The Golden State’s 150-year stretch of unusually wet weather appears to have been marked by particularly intense winter storms and coincides with a climate anomaly in Greenland ice cores first detected in 1997. That is the conclusion of a paleoclimate study that analyzed stalagmite records from White Moon Cave in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains. Lead author Jessica Oster, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, is quoted.
Associated Press: Court: Required minimum juvenile sentences should be rare
The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ruled that mandatory minimum sentences for juveniles before the chance of parole should be “uncommon,” making it among the most aggressive states in curtailing such required prison time. The 4-3 opinion illustrates how heavily divided Iowa’s highest court remains on the treatment of juvenile offenders. Christopher Slobogin, Milton R. Underwood Professor of Law, is quoted.