MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — March breezes in at MTSU with a full slate of events celebrating National Women’s History Month and the theme of “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” • Towson University associate professor Kelly Elkins, co-director of Towson’s Human Remains DNA Identification Laboratory, will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, March 2-3, both in Science Building Room 1003. Elkins’ March 2 talk will be on “Embracing and Advancing, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Respect in the Chemical Sciences.” Her science-related March 3 presentation is on “Next Generation Sequencing in DNA Analysis of Historic Period Human Remains.” • L’Oreal Stephens, a lecturer…
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Memphis, TN — The FBI Memphis Field Office is seeing a significant increase in the number of ransomware attacks, which is a type of malicious software, or malware, that prevents you from accessing your computer files, systems, or networks, and demands you pay a ransom for their return. “Ransomware attacks can cause costly disruptions to operations and the loss of critical information and data,” said Special Agent in Charge Douglas M. Korneski of the FBI Memphis Field Office. “Recent ransomware attacks in Tennessee have targeted health care providers, manufacturing, schools, and small businesses.” The FBI does not support paying a ransom in response to…
Columbia, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Women in Art, a new art exhibit celebrating Women’s History Month, is now on display at the Visit Columbia Welcome Center located at 713 N. Main Street. The exhibit is open to the public during business hours Monday – Friday 10am to 4pm, Saturday 10am to 3pm, and Sunday 12pm-3pm. This exhibit showcases the talents of four local artists, Robyn Barber, Hannah Croteau, Carol Cheshier Hutchison, and Morgan Jones. Robyn Barber is one-half of an artisan couple living in Santa Fe, Tennessee. While she has had a life-long passion for creativity, her husband has fostered…
Memphis, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – A UTHSC research team has been awarded $2.85 million from the National Institute on Aging for a project that will deepen understanding of how mitochondria influence the aging process and age-related diseases. David Ashbrook, PhD, assistant professor of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, is the principal investigator on the study examining how sex, diet, age, and genetics influence the number of mitochondria per cell in different tissues, and how these relate to different aging measures. Stephen Alway, PhD, FACSM, dean of the College of Health Professions and professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, and the…
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (TN Tribune) — Adults looking to return to college to finish their degree or considering attending college for the first time will have the opportunity to have their questions answered by MTSU representatives next month at the Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce. As a part of the university’s Finish Now event series, representatives from MTSU’s University College will be on hand from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 22 at the chamber located at 3505 Medical Center Parkway in Murfreesboro. Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP here. Degree coordinators, academic advisers and admissions counselors from MTSU…
ByMarc Perrusquia As debate intensified last year over whether to sever an exclusive electrical power contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the federal power supplier created a new Memphis-based vice presidency to help shore up relations here. It filled the high-paying position with a longtime local businessman, Mark Yates. In addition to his strong local ties, Yates’ hire came with a unique — and some say conflicting — connection: His wife is a business partner with one of the five voting members of the Memphis Light, Gas & Water board of commissioners, which will have a primary voice in deciding who…
By Marc Perrusquia Leaders at Memphis Light, Gas & Water made a pledge of transparency 15 years ago following a statewide corruption scandal. The city-owned utility adopted an opens in a new windowethics policy requiring its board members, top executives and other key employees to file annual financial disclosure statements. The policy, still on the books, directs MLGW to “promptly and prominently’’ post those filings on the Internet to help the public identify sources of income that may pose a conflict of interest. Yet, an inquiry by the Institute for Public Service Reporting found citizens would be hard-pressed to locate those promised personal…
Donald Trump lives through a looking glass bordered by a gold-plated frame. It is only in this alternate reality that he can blame his successor’s weakness for inviting Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. To be sure, decades of failures by western leaders, including by American presidents of both parties, helped give Putin the yellow if not the green light to do his worst. But nothing compares to the consistent coddling delivered by Trump as a candidate and in his four years in power. A very abbreviated recap: During the presidential transition period, Trump spoke openly about easing off sanctions that had been imposed on Russia for its…
Assassins have tried to kill Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at least three times since Russia invaded his country last week, a new report said. The assassination plots were foiled when anti-war Russians fed intel to Ukraine about two separate mercenary groups that planned to launch the attacks, the Times of London reported. “I can say that we have received information from [Russia’s Federal Security Service], who do not want to take part in this bloody war,” Ukraine’s secretary of national security and defense told local TV stations, according to the Times. The shadowy, Kremlin-backed Wagner Group was behind two of the…