Jon Meacham, C'91:

Jon Meacham Wins Biography Pulitzer

By: Sarah Ball. Posted April 20, 2009; blog.newsweek.com

NEWSWEEK Editor Jon Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography on Monday afternoon for "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House." Click here to read an excerpt, or here to download his interview with NEWSWEEK ON AIR about the book, which was selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.

From Associated Press, April 20, 2009:

BIOGRAPHY: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House," by Jon Meacham.

Meacham, the editor of Newsweek, is the best-selling author of "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship" and "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation."

His latest work looks at how Jackson's pivotal years in the White House as the nation's seventh chief executive helped shape the modern presidency. The book was described by the judges as an "unflinching portrait" of Jackson, written in "agile" prose that brings Jackson's story to life.

Dr. Wallace "Skip" Neblett, C'67:

Vanderbilt doctors are elated with separation of conjoined twins

By Chris Echegaray • Published April 23, 2009; THE TENNESSEAN

Conjoined twins are identical twins who develop from the same fertilized egg but don't fully separate in the womb. U.S. doctors perform on average two separations per year, said Dr. Wallace "Skip" Neblett, the lead surgeon in the operation and chairman of the department of pediatric surgery.