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David Jewitt, professor, astronomer and comet expert will give a free, public talk at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ about “Primordial Ice Reservoirs of the Solar System” and how much we know, and don't know, about them. Read More

Problems of extreme poverty – from affordable housing to health care delivery to nutrition – will be the focus of efforts by a large number of students traveling this spring to Guatemala, where Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ already leads numerous sustained studies and initiatives. Read More

The current chief of the United States Central Command and the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will speak about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces overseas and the latest developments in the surge. The event will be held Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

Physicist Andreas Berlind and human geneticist Marylyn Ritchie at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ have each won two-year, $50,000 research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More

A visit to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ by Anderson Sa and Grupo Cultural AfroReggae has been canceled, including a Feb. 25 concert that is part of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ ‘s Great Performances series. Great Performances series subscribers may call (615) 343-2160 for refunds, exchanges and other ticket options. Single ticket holders may visit… Read More

A short story collection by a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ professor described as "an amazingly original Flannery O'Connor/Loretta Lynn collision" is one of five nominees for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Read More

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Political Review, a non-partisan political journal run entirely by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ undergraduate students, will host the first Nashville Intercollegiate Activism Conference on Feb. 27. The one-day conference will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Nashville civil rights sit-ins and will examine how students were able to defeat segregation as well as how students can be involved in social change today. Read More

Several hundred of the nation's top college debate teams from dozens of universities will fill Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus March 6-8 to determine the winner of the American Debate Association (ADA) 2010 National Championship Debate Tournament. Read More

The current chief of the United States Central Command and the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, Army Gen. David Petraeus, will speak about his actions as commander of the surge in Iraq, the role of U.S. forces overseas and the latest developments in the surge. The event will be held Monday, March 1, at 5 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

The student-run Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Initiative for Vegetarian Awareness will join several other student organizations to host a screening of the documentary Food Inc. Saturday, Feb. 27, at 2 p.m. at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Sarratt Cinema, located at 2301 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Place. Read More

Six incoming first-year students have been chosen as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. The six are among 575 high school seniors who applied for the prestigious program. Read More

Amy-Jill Levine, a leading Biblical scholar from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School, will address "Jesus, Judaism and Jewish-Christian Relations" at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ on Thursday, March 18, at Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

Three Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ physicists are members of the scientific team that have reported creating an exotic state of matter with a temperature of four trillion degrees Celsius. It's the hottest temperature ever achieved in a laboratory and 250,000 times hotter than the heart of the sun. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ writer-in-residence Peter Guralnick will be inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame during a May 5 ceremony in Memphis. Read More

Recent Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ football signee Rajaan Bennett, a leader on and off the field from McEachern High School north of Atlanta, died tragically Feb. 17. He was 18. Read More

Benson Hall and the Library's Archival Storage Facility have received certification by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program of the U.S. Green Building Council. Read More

The unexpected discovery of a new type of genetic variation suggests that natural selection – the force that drives evolution – is both more powerful and more complex than scientists have thought. Read More

Ken Feinberg, special master for executive pay for the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program, will deliver the keynote speech for a daylong executive pay conference Feb. 26 at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School. Read More

Finding out where to eat, what's happening and how to get around are common questions on every college campus. Now at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, the answers to these questions can be quickly and easily found using new applications developed by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ engineering students for iPhone and Android mobile devices. Read More

A memorial service for Rendigs Thomas Fels, professor of economics, emeritus, is set for 2 p.m. Feb. 26 at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. Read More