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Institute for Public Service Reporting – Memphis

David Waters

David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis.

Charlie Wall, 8, takes part in a hearing test at the University of Memphis Speech and Hearing Clinic, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Doctors at the U of M are conducting research to help kids who can hear, but whose brains can’t process what their ears collect. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian).

Charlie Wall, 8, takes part in a hearing test at the University of Memphis Speech and Hearing Clinic, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Doctors at the U of M are conducting research to help kids who can hear, but whose brains can’t process what their ears collect. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian).

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 3: How Memphis scientists help Children whose brains struggle to hear

Cutting-edge brain studies focus on Auditory Processing Disorder

David WatersSeptember 14, 2019

Dr. Eraina Schauss fills a syringe with electro gel which is then inserted into small holes in the qEEG cap. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Dr. Eraina Schauss fills a syringe with electro gel which is then inserted into small holes in the qEEG cap. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 2: Memphis scientists treat young trauma victims by ‘training’ Their brain waves

Researchers believe neurofeedback impacts learning, behavior, coping

David WatersSeptember 13, 2019

Kevin Broady tries to keep his twin one-year-old girls Serenity Broady and Kennedi Broady (right) entertained during a graduation ceremony for parents and kids in Le Bonheur’s Nurse-Family Partnership at the hospital’s community outreach center on Aug. 2, 2019. The program connects nurses with first-time pregnant mothers to guide them through early child development. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Kevin Broady tries to keep his twin one-year-old girls Serenity Broady and Kennedi Broady (right) entertained during a graduation ceremony for parents and kids in Le Bonheur’s Nurse-Family Partnership at the hospital’s community outreach center on Aug. 2, 2019. The program connects nurses with first-time pregnant mothers to guide them through early child development. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 1: Memphis brainpower takes on ‘epidemic’ of chronic trauma, distress in youth

Families get help protecting kids from Adverse Childhood Experiences

David WatersSeptember 12, 2019

Rev. Randall Mullins and his wife, Sharon Pavelda, with the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, stand in front of the Ell Persons historic maker. The couple launched the project in 2016, with help from retired professors Tom Carlson and Margaret Vandiver, and retired oceanographer George Grider. Their goal is to locate and memorialize the site of every post-Civil War lynching in Shelby County. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Rev. Randall Mullins and his wife, Sharon Pavelda, with the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, stand in front of the Ell Persons historic maker. The couple launched the project in 2016, with help from retired professors Tom Carlson and Margaret Vandiver, and retired oceanographer George Grider. Their goal is to locate and memorialize the site of every post-Civil War lynching in Shelby County. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Faith

lessons learned in ‘grueling but healing’ work on Memphis Lynching Sites

Memphis couple "showed us what a community looks like"

David WatersMay 29, 2019

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 3: Costly failures come with lessons for ‘teacher town’: Reading success begins at birth

Bush, Obama, Gates pushed reforms, but local innovators have better ideas

David WatersMay 18, 2019

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 2: Complex Plans, demands challenge reading teachers to be classroom maestros

Top-down reforms can't replace 'skilled and knowledgeable teacher'

David WatersMay 17, 2019

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 1: Chronic poverty, trauma complicate efforts to close third-grade reading gap in Memphis

"When kids are in survival mode, they can't learn."

David WatersMay 16, 2019

On Sunday, May 5, Rev. Dr. Steve Montgomery preached his final sermon as a church pastor. After 39 years in the pulpit, including the past 19 in Memphis as Idlewild Presbyterian Church’s senior pastor, Montgomery is retiring. “In another life I might have played first base for the Atlanta Braves, or sung tenor at the Metropolitan Opera,” he told the packed sanctuary on Sunday. “But I have only one life to live. I am grateful God made me a pastor to you.” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

On Sunday, May 5, Rev. Dr. Steve Montgomery preached his final sermon as a church pastor. After 39 years in the pulpit, including the past 19 in Memphis as Idlewild Presbyterian Church’s senior pastor, Montgomery is retiring. “In another life I might have played first base for the Atlanta Braves, or sung tenor at the Metropolitan Opera,” he told the packed sanctuary on Sunday. “But I have only one life to live. I am grateful God made me a pastor to you.” (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Faith

“pastor and prophet” retires from Idlewild with a song and a prayer

After 39 years in pulpit, Idlewild's Montgomery preaches final sermon

David WatersMay 6, 2019

Most Rev. Michael Curry, the first African-American presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, was chief consecrator on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Hope Church, for the Rt. Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf’s consecration service. Roaf is the Fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. (Lisa Buser/Special to The Daily Memphian)

Most Rev. Michael Curry, the first African-American presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, was chief consecrator on Saturday, May 4, 2019, at Hope Church, for the Rt. Rev. Phoebe A. Roaf’s consecration service. Roaf is the Fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee. (Lisa Buser/Special to The Daily Memphian)

Faith

Bishop Phoebe, ‘A child of God like everyone else’, makes history in Memphis

Episcopal Diocese welcomes first female and African-American bishop

David WatersMay 5, 2019

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Faith

Beloved minister, a former rock star, found triumph and tragedy in the music

John Kilzer sang for fans, for the faithful, and for himself

David WatersMarch 21, 2019

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