Tip over injuries continue to increase in children
(iStock photo) Nearly 13,000 children are injured each year in the U.S. from televisions tipping over, with a child dying every three… Read More
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Susan Gray School
The Susan Gray School was selected by Nashville’s Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities to receive the Mayor’s 2012 Education Award… Read More
New Faculty
Melissa Gresalfi Gary T. Henry Andrew Hostetler Joe Rodgers Gary T. Henry, professor… Read More
IRIS Center receives $7.5M grant
A five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs will continue funding of the… Read More
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt urges parents to talk to teens about safe driving this holiday season
(iStockphoto) Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of injury and death among teenagers every year, and crash deaths are even higher… Read More
‘Scaling up’ effective practices in urban high schools
The National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools at Peabody announced the next phase of their partnership with Broward County Public Schools to study and… Read More
Randall K. Harley
Randall K. Harley, (MA’54, PhD’62) professor emeritus of special education, who taught at Peabody for over 29 years, was honored with… Read More
Returning teachers feed workforce, gender differences prevalent
Jason Grissom Former teachers may be an important source for the teacher labor supply, with as many as 30 percent of this… Read More
Read About It
Magdalene House Magdalene House: A Place about Mercy, (Vanderbilt University Press, 2012) by Sarah VanHooser Suiter, PhD’10, is a participant-observation account of… Read More
Reluctant readers? There’s an app for that.
An acclaimed young adult novelist is now applying her vision, talent and Peabody connections to engage young readers with Shakespeare. Read More
A firm foundation in life and work
Thomas H. Powell, EdD’82, currently in his 10th year as president of Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmetsburg, Md., has led the nation’s second-oldest Catholic university to new heights. Read More
Creative Expressions XVIII Art Show
Selected works were exhibited and artists were recognized at the 31st Annual Awards Celebration of the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on October 25. Read More
Well Fed
The Annual Farm to Fork Dinner on the Peabody mall has become a fall tradition on campus, highlighting locally harvested food… Read More
Ahead of the Pack
Continued accolades might go to any institution’s collective head. Yet Peabody College’s place atop the rankings of education schools nationwide has made the school’s faculty and leadership anything but complacent. The forward-looking approach that helped to build the college continues to infuse its institutional culture: At Peabody, innovation has become standard operating procedure. Read More
2012 a year of milestones, accomplishments at VUMC
Editor’s note — the following is a chronological roundup of the news that made headlines at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2012. Read More
Son’s kidney donation to his mother the ultimate gift
Noah Harrison donated a kidney to his mother, Erica Johnson, earlier this week. (Photo by John Russell) For as long as Noah… Read More
The Language of Survival
In 2011, Tennessee welcomed 1,236 refugees from 17 different countries, most of them settling in Nashville. For a refugee, the first order of business is survival, and the key to survival in the United States is learning English. Angela Harris, MEd’10, is establishing the ESL to Go program to help Nashville area refugees learn the language. Read More
Year in Review 2012: Appointments bolster Medical Center programs
Laura Beth Brown, R.N., president of Vanderbilt Home Care, was named vice president for Vanderbilt Health Services. While continuing to serve as president… Read More
Democracy’s Proving Ground
The G.I. Bill changed the way the state and its citizens thought about one another in the postwar period. This was seen especially in regard to higher education, which quickly emerged as one of the institutional embodiments of the G.I. Bill. Read More
Year in Review 2012: VUMC recognized in multiple national rankings
Vanderbilt University Medical Center once again placed highly in several of the rankings conducted throughout the year by U.S. News and World Report. In the… Read More