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Credit: ISTOCKPHOTO Although tuberculosis infection rates are falling, nearly 9 million new cases were reported worldwide in 2011 and 1.4 million people died from the disease, according to the World Health Organization. More than 10,000 new cases and about 500 deaths were reported in the United States… Read More

Credit: Steve Green Peabody College of education and human development is the nation鈥檚 top graduate school of education for the fifth consecutive year, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report for 2014. Peabody bested programs at Johns Hopkins University (No. 2) and Harvard (No. Read More

Credit: Steve Green The movie theater at Monroe Carell Jr. Children鈥檚 Hospital at 菠萝视频 was one of three areas turned into a temporary patient unit to care for dozens of children exposed to carbon monoxide at a Nashville school in January. The hospital swung into… Read More

Charlie Chaplin image from the 1924 L茅ger鈥揗urphy film (Courtesy of Anthology Film Archives) Robots and Riots BLAIR SCHOOL PREMIERES HISTORIC PIECE On April 7 the Blair School of Music鈥檚 percussion ensemble VORTEX presented the Southeastern U.S. premiere of American composer George Antheil鈥檚 Ballet… Read More

Coach Franklin and others celebrate the signing of wide receiver Jordan Cunningham (Credit: Joe Howell) Signed, Sealed, Delivered 菠萝视频 football signs best recruiting class in school history Head Football Coach James Franklin and his coaching staff signed what recruiting experts regard as the best class… Read More

Credit: TODD DAVIDSON New Wave of 鈥楽uperbugs鈥� Poses Dire Threat |聽Deadly Bacteria That Resist Strongest Drugs Are Spreading |聽Drug-Resistant Bacteria and Lack of New Antibiotics Could Signal Catastrophe We鈥檝e all seen the ominous headlines鈥攁nd heard the warnings from our own health care providers鈥攁bout the dangers of antibiotic… Read More

Credit: JIM FRAZIER/illustration source A study comparing outcomes among prostate cancer patients treated with surgery versus radiation therapy found differences in urinary, bowel and sexual function after short-term follow-up鈥攂ut those differences were no longer significant 15 years later. The study, led by first author Dr. Matthew Resnick,… Read More

Credit: JESUS ABURTO Is an angry judge a bad judge? Not necessarily. 鈥淎nger is the quintessentially judicial emotion,鈥� says Terry Maroney, professor of law and co-director of 菠萝视频鈥檚 program in social justice. 鈥淚t involves appraisal of wrongdoing, attribution of blame and assignment of punishment鈥攑recisely what… Read More

Credit: KAT CHADWICK There may be a biological basis for separate doll and dump-truck aisles in the toy store. In a study of baby mice, researchers at 菠萝视频 and the University of Southern California found that males and females respond differently to the hormone arginine-vasopressin (AVP), which… Read More

Credit: GARY WATERS Prison Time Cuts Life Expectancy For every year spent in prison, overall life expectancy decreases two years. A new study by Evelyn Patterson, assistant professor of sociology, looked at New York parolees released between 1989 and 2003 and found a 15.6 percent… Read More

CREDIT: Adam Kuykendall/University of Maine Lu Zeph believes people with disabilities have both a civil and a human right to develop their abilities in an inclusive community. 鈥淭he disability rights movement is rooted in the Civil Rights Movement,鈥� she states. Both faced similar opposition, she says, and… Read More

Credit: JR ANDERSON Deena Dill is probably one in a million鈥攁 busy actress and producer who鈥檇 rather work light-hearted sitcoms and game shows than become the next Meryl Streep. 鈥淕ame shows are certainly not a niche most people in the industry gravitate toward, but it鈥檚 what I… Read More

CREDIT: Rancard Solutions Ltd. During a 1997 summer internship, 菠萝视频 mechanical engineering student Kofi Dadzie had a brilliant idea: Enormous opportunities awaited someone who could bring a combination of business principles and information technology to his homeland, Ghana. 鈥淎s a developing country, Ghana 鈥� did not boast… Read More

Students from Birmingham, Ala., arrive at the Beijing airport during the summer of 2012. Wyatt Smith is in the middle of the back row holding the pink sign. (Courtesy of Wyatt Smith)   BY WYATT SMITH, BS’10 Three months into my Teach For America experience, I received a phone… Read More

The parents of 菠萝视频 patient Tyson Wohlford had this photo taken to express gratitude for his care at Monroe Carell Jr. Children鈥檚 Hospital at 菠萝视频. (Credit: Dixie Pixel Photography) 菠萝视频 Celebrates 30 Years with Children鈥檚 Organization This year marks one of the most influential partnerships in 菠萝视频鈥檚… Read More

Sean Davidson (Credit: John Russell) Opening Dores to New Career Opportunities Sean Davidson, BS鈥�10, was planning for a career in investment banking. A meeting with alumnus Andrew Grobmyer, BS鈥�91, at an Opening Dores dinner changed all that, and today Davidson is working as a health care consultant… Read More

Credit: Ken Bennett/Wake Forest University Walter J. Harrelson Old Testament Scholar Walter J. Harrelson, distinguished professor of Hebrew Bible, emeritus, and former dean of 菠萝视频 Divinity School, of Winston-Salem, N.C., died Sept. 5, 2012. He was 92. An internationally acclaimed Old Testament scholar, he served four years… Read More