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Connie Vinita Dowell, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ graduate with three decades of experience working in academic libraries, will begin her new position as the university's first dean of libraries on March 2. Dowell previously served as dean of the library and information access at San Diego State University. Read More

Ellen H. Fanning, Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, has received a 2009 Humboldt Research Award. Read More

New research from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Peabody College offers guidance for teachers to help them improve writing instruction in the primary grades and develop stronger student writers. Read More

A team of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. Read More

A new way to negotiate the differences between the Hindu, Christian and Buddhist traditions will be proposed during a public lecture by a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School professor on March 10. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ plans to calculate the university's carbon footprint this spring through a greenhouse gas emissions inventory. The inventory will determine the amount of the six greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere that comprise the "carbon footprint" from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in an average year, based on 2005-2007 data. Read More

As the Obama administration begins its quest to right the economy through government spending, a counter story of recovery comes from admirers of the Reagan administration. President Reagan's admirers point out that he was also faced with a horrible economy upon his inauguration which, they assert, Reagan cured with deep tax cuts. Read More

Nineteen incoming first-year students have been chosen as the newest members of the Ingram Scholarship program. The 19 are among more than 450 high school seniors who applied for the prestigious program. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. The researchers made the discovery using a new technique for decoding data from functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. The findings are a significant step forward in understanding how we perceive, process and remember visual information. Read More

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist today announced the establishment of a collaboration that seeks to make education a top priority for Tennessee. The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a nonpartisan initiative, hopes to jumpstart education reform efforts across the state. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ will serve as a research partner to SCORE. Read More

The day that robot playmates help children with autism learn the social skills that they naturally lack has come a step closer with the development of a system that allows a robot to monitor a child's emotional state. Read More

Students helping other students learn has been proven to boost academic achievement and social skills in students with and without disabilities. A new book by Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ researchers, Peer Support Strategies for Improving All Students' Social Lives and Learning, based on over 20 years of research in the field, offers teachers practical guidelines for implementing these peer support strategies in the classroom. Read More

Hundreds of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students will hit the dance floor Feb. 13-14 during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Children's Miracle Network. Dance Marathon will be held from 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13, until 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 14, at the Student Recreation Center on Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's campus. The event is open to the public and all proceeds from Dance Marathon will go to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Read More

John Murphy, a national expert on presidential campaign speeches and rhetoric, will present "A New Birth of Freedom: Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Uses of History" on Monday, Feb. 16, at 4:10 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Read More

The son of the namesake of The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School will speak during a Feb. 26 breakfast about lessons learned from a leadership challenge. Read More

Voters have the opportunity to meet the candidates running for the Metro Council District 18 seat and hear their ideas on wide-ranging community issues during a Feb. 22 forum. Read More

Academically talented 5th and 6th graders taking part in the Saturday Academy at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ for the Young, or SAVY, will have a chance to tour a trailer decked out with cutting-edge, computer-aided gizmos and interactive technology Saturday, Feb. 14, from 10 to 11 a.m. in Lot 111 on the corner of 19th and Edgehill avenues. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ senior Amanda Scott has won a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship – a full-cost award for graduate study and research in any subject available at the University of Cambridge. Read More

Hundreds of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students will hit the dance floor Feb. 13-14 to benefit the health of area children during Dance Marathon, a 14-hour student-run event to raise money for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Children's Miracle Network. Read More

Last May, during my remarks at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's graduate school commencement ceremony, I shared this observation, "The world you're about to enter as Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's newest alumni is a world where many of the challenges so in need of fresh ideas are increasingly measured in trillions." Little did I know then that the economy's approaching nosedive would soon turn trillions into front-page news. Read More