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Tuesday morning, surgeons at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ successfully completed the hospital's first separation of conjoined twins. Read More

On April 18, a group of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ engineering students will fire off a 16-foot, 82-pound rocket. If all goes as planned, the vehicle will power its way one mile directly overhead where it will release a remotely piloted aircraft that will collect images and infrared data of the ground below as it is guided back down to earth. Read More

The work of art students at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ will be displayed April 17-May 8 at the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center. The exhibit is open to the general public, as is a reception April 17 highlighted by the announcement of the $25,000 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award funding a year of travel and research for a graduating senior. Read More

Stephenie Dodson and Kristine LaLonde, candidates in the Metro Council District 18 election run-off, will face each other during a public forum Sunday, April 19, at Eakin School. The meeting will be from 3 to 4 p.m. in the school's auditorium. Read More

A Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ student is being treated for meningococcal bacterial meningitis at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Medical Center after being brought to the medical center's Emergency Department overnight. She was in critical but stable condition in the intensive care unit Tuesday evening. Read More

Aliens abound on the movie screens, but in reality we are still trying to find out if we share our universe with other sentient creatures. Read More

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, the nation's official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. Read More

James Auer, director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ; retired naval commander, can discuss North Korea's military threats to Japan and the U.S. and the implications of their recent missile test. Auer was stationed in Japan and the Western Pacific during his naval career and was the special assistant on Japan with the office of the Secretary of Defense. He has written numerous articles and made presentations addressing East Asian security and defense policies. He is co-author of "Japan: America's New South Korea?" published in the journal Current History. He recently spoke at The National Defense Academy of Japan on "The Obama Administration and U.S. – Japan Defense Relations." Read More

Two students recommended by the faculty and staff of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ have been selected as 2008 Goldwater Scholars. Each will receive a two-year scholarship worth $7,500 a year for educational expenses. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students will be able to safely see incredible features of the sun in all its naked glory on Sunday, April 5. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory will set up its new solar telescope outside The Commons from noon to 2 p.m. Read More

Jesse Peterson, assistant professor of mathematics at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, has won a $50,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More

An opinion piece by Carol Swain, professor of law and political science, that originally ran in The Tennessean March 28. Read More

Rock critic/biblical scholar Mark Allan Powell will speak on how the Bible is used in popular contemporary Christian songs during a visit to a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ class on The Bible and Music. Read More

Faculty at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Peabody College of education and human development continued to receive national recognition and funding through multiple awards, grants and appointments this spring. Read More

Churches with predominantly black congregations are thriving in urban and suburban areas, and the most successful churches employ a variety of sophisticated marketing and programming strategies to draw members, a new study by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ researcher Sandra Barnes finds. The research offers insights into what successful black churches have in common today, when parishioners have more choices and expect more from their churches than they have in the past. Read More

To accommodate the intense work schedules of rising executives and the changing economy's impact on business professionals, the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Owen Graduate School of Management is transitioning its highly respected 31-year-old Executive MBA program from an alternating Friday-Saturday schedule to an alternating Saturday-only format. Read More

Academy Award-nominated documentary Encounters at the End of the World will be screened free-of-charge on April 6 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, followed by a discussion led by a producer of the film. Read More

Dr. Harry R. Jacobson will retire as vice chancellor for health affairs at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ June 1, and Dr. Jeffrey Balser, dean of the School of Medicine, will succeed him, Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced today. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students are getting into the spirit of Earth Hour on Saturday, March 28. They will join millions of people around the world and here in Nashville who are turning out lights to draw attention to climate change. Read More

Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin will receive Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's prestigious Nichols-Chancellor's Medal on May 7, when she will address graduating seniors and their families during Senior Day. Read More