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Longtime journalist Jane Roberts is a Minnesotan by birth and a Memphian by choice. She's lived and reported in the city more than two decades. She covers business news and features for The Daily Memphian.
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With an assist from ALSAC and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University of Memphis plans to offer an interdisciplinary online master’s degree in nonprofit management, which could begin in January 2021.
When finished, the class may be converted to an experiential learning credit-bearing course.
Patricia Myles, 49, was breathing on her own after being treated with the experimental drug, remdesivir. She was discharged from Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, 21 days after the intravenous therapy started.
There are thousands of cradles graves at Elmwood. Slowly, in pockets and bunches, they are being planted by a troupe of volunteers finding particular solace tending a cemetery in a pandemic.
The coronavirus reproduction rate has hovered at 1.2 during Phase 2 of the business reopening, which went into effect May 18.
Two researchers from the College of Medicine are working together on the interdisciplinary project funded by NIH.
Graduate students in public health will begin tabulations and surveys next week. The grading would be an extension of “knowing where we are and where we want to get to,” according to Dr. Manoj Jain.
Research funding at the University of Memphis is up 70% in the last year.
CEO Richard Walker of the unopened field hospital is a former Boy Scout who loved search-and-rescue work.
Union and Macon Cove campuses will open for classes that require hands-on learning. Lecture-based courses will still be online for summer session.
Baptist will host the training program, with direction from IAC Associates and in collaboration with Meharry Medical College in Nashville.
UTHSC and Le Bonheur are setting up a free shot clinic in Frayser to help catch children up on vaccines before school.
The EPA and Tennessee Department of Health have certified the safety of these masks.
Judges, law clerks and private firms across the city have retooled their externship programs for this virtual age.
Dexamethasone is a commonly used steriod, widely available and inexpensive. It shows promise of being a big breakthrough for the sickest patients, including people on ventilators.
Town hall will include panel discussion on the COVID-19 economic recovery with points of view from the private and public sectors.
Christian Brothers University will have about 150 DACA students on its campus this fall and is looking to recruit more.
The gains include new collaborations, technology devices for all SCS students and the speed at which the crisis has forced people to adapt.
Administrators walked with students, and students walked with city residents in a show of peaceful force that ended with speeches and the crowd kneeling for 8 minutes and 46 seconds.
Construction on Herff addition could begin in 18 months. The U of M wants to increase STEM major graduates as part of its push to be ranked a Carnegie-level R1 university.
High school will round out university's public school initiatives that will extend from pre-K through the 12th grade.
The waiting list for detox treatment at Alliance Healthcare doubled this week; 75 people are waiting for 4.3 beds.
Josh Hammond at Buster's and other business owners, trying to do the right thing, aren’t entirely sure what the parameters are when employees test positive.
Emilia Pinto believes that when the second genetic mutation aligns with a gene introduced by Brazilian colonizers, the incidence for cancer increases.
As part of the package, Baptist will provide a virtual clinic to help people on campus who test positive know what care they need and when it is safe to return to the public sphere.