NASHVILLE, TN – Americans have been on line a lot more since the pandemic began. Children attended school remotely, people worked from home, telemedicine became a new trend, and all kinds of meetings took place on ZOOM. “For more than a decade the CETF has called digital access a 21st century civil right,” said Sunne McPeak, President and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF). The California Public Utilities Commission started the CETF in 2005 in response to corporate mergers of SBC and AT&T, and Verizon with MCI. It’s mission: to close the digital divide. “Infrastructure is necessary but…
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TOKYO, Japan — With the Games of the XXXVI Olympiad officially underway, an MTSU professor is doing his part to help his native country’s track and field team. Andrew Owusu, an associate professor in the Department of Health and Human Performance, supervised a 20-day dress rehearsal for the Ghanaian national team at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, before departing for Tokyo. Four of the Ghanaian sprinters compete for Coppin State. Owusu, who also is MTSU’s Health Graduate Program coordinator, competed in the long jump for Ghana at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and in the triple jump at the 2000…
NASHVILLE, T.N. (TN Tribune) – Join local downtown gallery CHAUVET Arts on Saturday, August 7, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for the First Saturday Art Crawl and the opening of their new exhibition “Balance: Order and Chaos.” This brand new exhibition highlights the necessary collaboration between order and chaos in achieving natural balance. Featured artists including Stacy Widelitz, Mandy Rogers Horton, Lisa Shimko and new artist Paul Roden present balanced compositions created through varying degrees of harmony and disarray. “When we accept order and chaos as equally present, inevitable and even essential parts of our world, we can participate…
TENNESSEE (TN Tribune) – On Wednesday, July 21, the Tennessee Highway Safety Office joined the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Georgia Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, the Georgia Highway Patrol, Erlanger Health Systems, and other partners to promote “Operation Southern Shield.” The purpose of this regional campaign is to increase traffic safety awareness and enforcement to reduce speeding across the Southeast. “Speeding endangers everyone on the road,” said NHTSA Regional Administrator Carmen Hayes. “It endangers not only the life of the speeder, but all of the people on the road around them, including other drivers,…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune)- Mayor John Cooper today named Ginger Hausser as Senior Advisor for Intergovernmental Affairs, effective Monday, July 26, 2021. Hausser will lead state and federal government relations, as well as support fellow senior advisor Mike Jameson in his work with Metro Council, in order to move the mayor’s policy priorities forward. She brings nearly 30 years of community building experience to the mayor’s staff. “As we create a Nashville that works for everyone, we need leaders who can build partnerships and solve problems,” Mayor Cooper said. “Ginger cares deeply about our community, and I’m confident she’ll use…
NASHVILLE, TN (TN Tribune) – The Birmingham community is invited to celebrate the partnership between Pivot Technology School and Shipt. A Launch Party will be held on Monday, July 26th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Shipt Headquarters in downtown Birmingham. In response to challenges with identifying diverse talent in the technology industry, Pivot Technology School partnered with Shipt to boost the talent pipeline. Pivot Technology School, a coding boot camp based in Nashville, TN, offers 20-week virtual courses in cybersecurity, data analytics, and web development. Shipt, headquartered in Birmingham, AL, is a fast-growing competitor in the market…
Nashville, TN (TN Tribune) Consuelo Wilkins, MD, MSCI, a leader in health equity, diversity and inclusion at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), is the 2021 recipient of the Marion Spencer Fay Award from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. The national award recognizes women physicians and/or scientists who have made “an exceptionally significant contribution to health care.” Previous recipients include the late Bernadine Healy, MD, the first female director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and pioneering breast cancer geneticist Mary-Claire King, PhD. Wilkins is Senior Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence at VUMC and Senior Associate Dean for…
(AP)–Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86. Moses, who was widely referred to as Bob, worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters. Moses started his “second chapter in civil rights work” by…
The following is a statement from Rep. Antonio Parkinson, Chairman of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators: “We are appreciative that the State Building Commission has done the right thing in voting to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest bust from it’s position in the most powerful building on our land: the Tennessee State Capitol. While this move signifies a great first step in beginning to heal our divided state, we understand that this is a sensitive matter to some and a symbolic victory to others. We also understand that there is a bigger issue at stake and this is…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (TN Tribune)— Artober Nashville, a program of NowPlayingNashville at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the annual month-long celebration of the arts in Nashville and Middle Tennessee this fall. Mixed-media clay artist Tammy Gentuso’s three-dimensional clay piece titled “Wee Little Houses” has been chosen as this year’s official backdrop for Artober Nashville. The piece was selected by a panel of judges as part of 40-plus submissions of visual art from Nashville and Middle Tennessee artists that were to exhibit the qualities of Artober Nashville — full of vibrant colors, patterns or abstract design. “It’s important…