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  • MEDIA ADVISORY: ĢƵ’s Homecoming parade kicks off 10:30 a.m. Oct. 25

    MEDIA ADVISORY: ĢƵ’s Homecoming parade kicks off 10:30 a.m. Oct. 25

    ĢƵ students will spend the afternoon Friday, Oct. 24, building floats for Saturday morning's Homecoming parade leading up to the ĢƵ Commodores football match-up against the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m. central time. The public is invited to attend the parade. Read More

    Oct 23, 2008

  • Employers beware: aggressive job negotiations can have long-term impact on employer-employee relationships

    Employers beware: aggressive job negotiations can have long-term impact on employer-employee relationships

    Research conducted by professors Ray Friedman and Neta Moye finds that the perceived mistreatment of potential employees during the recruitment process has a significant and lasting impact on workers' long-term relationships with employers. Read More

    Oct 23, 2008

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Sustainability and Environmental Management Office to kick off  event recycling program at football game against Duke

    MEDIA ADVISORY: Sustainability and Environmental Management Office to kick off event recycling program at football game against Duke

    The Sustainability and Environmental Management Office (SEMO) will offer coordinated recycling at ĢƵ's last three home football games this season, beginning this Saturday, Oct. 25, at the game against Duke. Read More

    Oct 23, 2008

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: Susan Gray School to cut ribbon on new fully accessible playground

    MEDIA ADVISORY: Susan Gray School to cut ribbon on new fully accessible playground

    The Susan Gray School for Children will dedicate and cut the ribbon on the new Finan Family Playground 2:30 p.m. Oct. 24. The event will be part of ĢƵ Peabody College's homecoming weekend activities. Read More

    Oct 23, 2008

  • Susan Gray School student and parent recognized for work on behalf of children with disabilities

    Susan Gray School student and parent recognized for work on behalf of children with disabilities

    Susan Gray School for Children student Claire Puryear and her mother Michelle Puryear have been selected by the Nashville Mayor's Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities Mac West Children's Award. Read More

    Oct 22, 2008

  • ‘RolePlay’ premiers Nov. 7 at ĢƵ

    ‘RolePlay’ premiers Nov. 7 at ĢƵ

    RolePlay, which debuts Nov. 7 at Neely Auditorium at ĢƵ, delights audiences with keen observations of modern humanity‘s innate ability to make a mess of relationships. Read More

    Oct 22, 2008

  • Miriam Cowden, second woman elected to ĢƵ Board of Trust, dies at 88

    Miriam Cowden, second woman elected to ĢƵ Board of Trust, dies at 88

    Miriam McGaw Cowden, whose practicality, generosity and diplomatic nature served her well during her more than 30 years on the ĢƵ Board of Trust, died Oct. 19 at Baptist Hospital following surgery. Read More

    Oct 21, 2008

  • Greek ambassador, ĢƵ professor discuss roots of U.S. politics Oct. 27

    Greek ambassador, ĢƵ professor discuss roots of U.S. politics Oct. 27

    Alexandros Mallias, Greece's ambassador to the United States, will join ĢƵ Professor of Classics, Emerita, Susan Ford Wiltshire for a discussion of the roots of the American political tradition in the ancient Greek city-states 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room 237 of The Commons Center. Read More

    Oct 20, 2008

  • ĢƵ Peabody College faculty, student win national awards

    ĢƵ Peabody College faculty, student win national awards

    Three ĢƵ Peabody College of education and human development faculty members and a Peabody graduate student have been recently named recipients of national awards in their fields of study. Read More

    Oct 20, 2008

  • Seven easy actions you can do today to save the environment and gas

    Seven easy actions you can do today to save the environment and gas

    New ĢƵ research identifies seven simple actions individuals can start today that have the potential to dramatically reduce energy use and carbon emissions. Read More

    Oct 20, 2008

  • ĢƵ student groups register more than 1,300 voters

    ĢƵ student groups register more than 1,300 voters

    More than 1,300 newly registered voters can make their voices heard during this year's hotly contested presidential race thanks to the efforts of ĢƵ student organizations. Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • Peabody College Supporters 2007-2008

    Peabody College Supporters 2007-2008

    Over the past year, thanks to numerous alumni, parents and friends who stepped forward and made a gift to Peabody, our campaign has grown to $57.9 million. All of these gifts added to Peabody’s ambitious $60 million campaign goal as part of the university’s ongoing comprehensive campaign, Shape the Future. Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • Creative Expressions XIV

    Creative Expressions XIV

    The opening of the exhibit “Creative Expressions XIV” in October will mark the 14th anniversary of the arts collaboration between the ĢƵ Kennedy Center and The Mayor’s Advisory Committee for People with Disabilities. Its purpose is to showcase the creative talents of artists with disabilities... Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • Head and Heart

    Head and Heart

    ĢƵ basketball star Shan Foster is the kind of student who gives teachers hope that the next generation is in good hands. Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • A World of Experience

    A World of Experience

    Austen Heim, who has studied and done volunteer service projects all over the world—Japan, New Zealand, London, China and Ecuador—now has a corporate job title that perfectly matches his skills. He is a human capital analyst at Deloitte & Touche in Manhattan. Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • Common Reflections

    Common Reflections

    About 1,550 first-year students at ĢƵ are now housed in The Commons in “houses” with names familiar to Peabody alums: North, West, East, Gillette and Memorial. In addition there are the newly constructed Murray, Stambaugh, Sutherland, Crawford and Hank Ingram Houses, built where the Married Student and Garrison… Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • Peabody Professional Institutes

    Peabody Professional Institutes

    Next summer, ĢƵ’s Peabody College will offer a number of short-term professional development programs building on the college’s experience and reputation for training administrators and senior practitioners. Read More

    Oct 17, 2008

  • A Peak Experience

    A Peak Experience

    Since age 10, Brooke Vaughan has had a dream of climbing Mt Kilimanjaro in Africa. Seventeen years later—by way of Peabody—Vaughan is turning that dream into a far-flung mission, a way to focus her passion and compassion for Africa and the greater good.  In January, she will hike not one… Read More

    Oct 16, 2008

  • Service Learning in Action

    Service Learning in Action

    Peabody’s commitment to hands-on learning and community service gave recent human and organizational development graduate Palmer Harston the confidence to spend the next year helping children orphaned by AIDS in one of the poorest areas of South Africa. Harston, a May graduate who also majored in political science and was… Read More

    Oct 16, 2008

  • Partner in Healing

    Partner in Healing

    Davis in Washington, D.C., in front of the Rwandan Embassy. The day then-sophomore Elizabeth Davis read an in-depth article about the horrific 1994 genocide in Rwanda—in 100 days in 1994, an estimated one million Rwandans were slaughtered in an ethnic bloodbath—was the day she tied her destiny to Africa. Read More

    Oct 16, 2008