Nashville And Community

(Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt) Nashville Business Journal recently released its 2021 “40 under 40” list of honorees, featuring six Vanderbilt alumni and two faculty members: Maya Bugg, EdD’18, president and CEO, Tennessee Charter School Center Christiane Buggs, MEd’14, board chair, The Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education and founding board member… Read More

One of the largest obstacles for patients seeking effective substance abuse treatment is a lack of transportation to the treatment facilities. Vanderbilt University researcher Janey Camp, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is working on a project to help clear those roadblocks. Janey Camp (Vanderbilt University) Camp is leading an 18-month, in-depth analysis of... Read More

Janey Camp leads an analysis of rural transportation constraints that prevent people from receiving regular substance abuse treatment. Read More

Women diagnosed with early-onset colorectal cancer have a greater risk of dying from the disease depending upon their county of residence, according to a study published in Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology. Read More

The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron soar directly above Vanderbilt Stadium on May 14 during a series of nationwide flyovers, which included Nashville. Read More

As chairman of Metro Nashville’s Board of Health, Alex Jahangir is coordinating the city’s COVID-19 response and providing leadership that has likely saved lives. Read More

Jean Gray Litterer, a longtime Nashville-area education leader who started her academic career in a one-room East Tennessee schoolhouse, died Jan. 21. She was 91. Read More

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered a vortex—and this one has nothing to do with icy, polar weather. Working with the Nashville Fire Department and Davidson County Information Technology Services, a team of Vanderbilt computer scientists and engineers analyzed more than three years of NFD incident data. The team looked at location, time and type of incidents... Read More

Carol Etherington, MSN, R.N., associate professor of Nursing, emerita, was recently elected chair of the Metropolitan Board of Health of Nashville and Davidson County, and Alex Jahangir, M.D., MMHC, medical director of the Vanderbilt Center for Trauma, Burn and Emergency Surgery, joined the board as a member. Read More

Director of Metro Nashville Public Schools Jesse Register, Dean Camilla Benbow and H. Rodes Hart, emeritus member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and longtime university supporter, at the Roundtable Donor Society Dinner on October 11. Read More

The new Master’s in Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools program, a partnership between Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, launches Monday, July 26. Read More

Those wishing to teach in Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools will have the opportunity to earn a Vanderbilt University master's degree designed expressly for them beginning this summer, Vanderbilt and MNPS announced today. Read More

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development, in partnership with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and other community agencies, has won a three-year, $3.4 million federal grant to enhance language and literacy skills in pre-kindergarten classrooms. Read More

Eight candidates vying for four Metro Nashville council at-large seats will speak and answer questions during a forum at Vanderbilt University. Read More

Two Vanderbilt Peabody College literacy and language experts are available to discuss why a resolution under consideration by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County to ban the use of bilingual services by many Metro agencies will not help non-English speakers learn the language and could in fact further isolate them from speakers of English and necessary services. Read More

James Ransome, illustrator of more than 50 children's books, will deliver the Vanderbilt Peabody College 2006 Martin Luther King Lecture Thursday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. His lecture, "A Painterly Palette of My Life," will take place in the Wyatt Center Rotunda and is free and open to the public. Read More

A delegation of leaders from South China Normal University, one of the top 10 education colleges in China, will visit Nashville the week of Nov. 7 to formalize a partnership to train both American and Chinese principals in effective leadership, education and management skills. Read More

Annette S. Eskind, chairman of the Nashville Public Education Foundation, announced that the foundation is establishing a $1,000,000 endowed fund at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University that will create a permanent collaborative relationship between Peabody, Vanderbilt and Metro Public Schools to help meet the professional development needs of Metro Schools teachers and principals. Read More

Imagine College staff are pledging scholarships to members of Pearl-Cohn Comprehensive Business Magnet High School's class of 2007-the last class to receive college financial aid through the program. Read More