In the Media
Reason: The real student loan crisis isn’t from undergraduate degrees
Feb. 7, 2024
The research of Lesley Turner, associate professor of economics, cited.
Greenville News: Cruel, unusual or corporal? SC Supreme Court revisits using firing squad, electric chair
Feb. 7, 2024
John Wikswo, A. B. Learned Professor and University Distinguished Professor of Physics, quoted.
The Tennessean: ‘Defeat Donald Trump’: Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney on the future of the Republican Party
Feb. 7, 2024
Jon Meacham, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Political Science, featured.
Associated Press: Women dominated the 2024 Grammy Awards. Is the tide turning?
Feb. 7, 2024
Emily Lordi, Edwin Mims Professor and professor of English, quoted.
The Washington Post: A Congress in crisis
Feb. 7, 2024
The research of Alan Wiseman, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, and Patrick Buhr, political science doctoral student, cited.
People Behind the Science Podcast: Investigating the Intersection of Nutrition and Bacterial Infection and Pathogenesis
Feb. 5, 2024
Eric Skaar, professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology, interviewed.
TIME: Guns are not just a public health problem
Feb. 5, 2024
Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and professor of medicine, health, and society, authored this opinion piece. The Los Angeles Times also featured Metzl’s new book, What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms.
MSNBC: A Nashville 2018 mass shooting is at the heart of ‘What We’ve Become’
Feb. 2, 2024
Jonathan Metzl, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor and professor of medicine, health, and society, interviewed.
NPR: A Tennessee lawmaker helped pass a strict abortion law. He’s now trying to loosen it
Feb. 2, 2024
John Geer, senior advisor in the Office of the Chancellor and Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science, interviewed.
Capital B News: ‘We owe it to Gracie’: A look inside this family’s quest for reparations
Feb. 2, 2024
Kimberly Welch, associate professor of history, quoted.