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Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture Monday, Jan. 19, for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Listen to Blair Professor Greg Barz on Wisconsin Public Radio\'s "Higher Ground." podcasts interviews and music from the World Music Spotlight. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ will host several events to mark the historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. All events are free and open to the public. Read More

Voters in Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams' district could continue to support and re-elect the Elizabethton representative – even if he switches parties – says Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ political scientist Christian Grose. Read More

Dhavan Shah, a leading national researcher on how political ads and digital media work in tandem to influence politics, will present "Network Nation: How Campaign Ads and the Internet Shape Participation" on Wednesday, Jan. 28, from noon-2 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Read More

The literature of Flannery O'Connor, especially the theology that informs it, will be examined during a series sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Associate Professor of History Leor Halevi has received the 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press). Read More

Butch Baldassari, a Blair School of Music professor who created a cottage industry around his love of mandolin music, died Saturday at a Nashville hospice. He was 56. Read More

With all the focus on the president-elect's views about the Burris appointment and the economic stimulus, we forget that Barack Obama is about to assume responsibility as chief executive of an organization that employs close to 2 million civilian employees. Obama's fortunes as president will depend in large part on his success at taking charge of the machinery of government. Read More

James A. Webb Jr., a three-sport athlete at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, prominent Nashville banker and an emeritus member of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Board of Trust and the board of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Medical Center, died Thursday at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. He was 86. Read More

Major Cathy Ryan was named interim police chief at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, replacing departing Chief Marlon Lynch while a national search is launched for his successor. Lynch resigned his Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ position effective Feb. 1 to take a job as associate vice president for safety and security at the University of Chicago. Read More

Films from Russia, South Korea, Israel, India, Romania and the United States are in the lineup for the International Lens Film Series this spring at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. All the films in the series will be free and open to the public. Read More

America's arduous struggle over competing visions of nationhood involving race is a giant step closer to resolution with the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, says Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ historian Gary Gerstle. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis will speak at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Jan. 14 about his new book God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe. Read More

Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture for Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ was judged No. 15 as a "best value" university in rankings released by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Read More

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Owen Graduate School of Management will host a free workshop for Nashville-area companies to learn how to get the ideal intern for their business. The workshop will be held at the Owen School, Room 218, on Jan. 16 at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ won a bowl game for the first time in exactly 53 years after Bryant Hahnfeldt kicked a 45-yard field goal with 3:26 left to beat Boston College 16-14 Wednesday in the Music City Bowl. Read More

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ finds that these individuals—labeled as novelty seekers by psychologists—face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year's resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. Read More

Cornelia Heard, professor of music and chair of the strings department of the Blair School of Music at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, has been named the holder of the newly created Valere Blair Potter Chair. The chair is endowed through a gift to the university by the grandchildren of Valere Blair Potter. Read More