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Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s Senior Class Day lecture on Thursday, May 8, has been moved to Memorial Gym because of the threat of severe weather. Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will now speak at 10 a.m. in the gym. Read More

There is a threat of severe weather on Thursday, May 8. Senior Class Day events will be moved indoors. Video of the event will be streamed live from this Web site at 10 a.m. Read More

In his May 9 commencement address at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s Owen Graduate School of Management, Howard Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, will tell graduating MBAs that the heart and soul of a business resides inside its people and transcends success in the marketplace. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s police department is joining with hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the country to intensify efforts to enforce seat belt laws during the 2008 Click It or Ticket campaign May 12 - June 1. Read More

Richard McCarty, a distinguished psychologist who has led the largest school at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ for the past seven years, will be presented to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Board of Trust next week for confirmation as the university\'s chief academic officer. Read More

Discovery Education and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ are partnering to launch a new research-based evaluation tool that measures the effectiveness of school principals. The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Assessment of Leadership in Education (VAL-ED), which is being exclusively distributed by Discovery Education, was created at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ through a grant from the Wallace Foundation. Read More

Two professors in Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s College of Arts and Science have been named 2008 Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Michael D. Bess, the Chancellor\'s Professor of History, and Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German, are among 190 recipients in the United States and Canada to receive a Guggenheim. Read More

Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will speak at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 8, at 10 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Senior Class Day, which starts with a ceremonial walk through the gates of the university at 9:30 a.m., is held the day before the university\'s commencement exercises. Geldof\'s speech will be webcast live. Read More

Read a selection of profiles of some of the stellar members of the Class of 2008. Read More

Fifteen retiring faculty members will be recognized during Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s May 9 commencement ceremony when the university honors their years of service and bestows on them the title of emeritus or emerita faculty. Read More

A team of Executive MBA students from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s Owen Graduate School of Management has won first place in the MBA Jungle Business Plan Competition, a national competition held recently in New York City. Read More

Palmer Harston was on a spring break trip visiting relatives in Nashville when her family was involved in a terrible car wreck. Eight-year-old Palmer was airlifted to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Children\'s Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgeries to save her life and was a patient for months. Her injuries left her confined to a wheelchair. Years later, her memories of the life-saving treatment she received at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ led her to apply for college here. Read More

La Chureca, the city dump on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua, could be the setting for a dreary, futuristic movie. A city of scavengers, many of them orphans, they live in the filthy heaps of refuse at this municipal garbage dump. Clothed in rags, they rummage for food, scrounging out a meager existence by selling the small trinkets or recyclables they find, or sometimes selling their own bodies to survive. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ basketball star Shan Foster, who will receive a degree in human and organizational development from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ\'s Peabody College on May 9, is the kind of student who gives teachers hope that the next generation is in good hands, said Sharon Shields, professor in the practice of human and organizational development."He embodies the idea that learning should be transformational," Shields said. "And it was for him. But he also transformed those around him." Read More

If you have a nagging feeling that life is getting increasingly hazardous, you may be interested in the new book, "Operational Risk Management," by Mark D. Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Read More

When Noah Walcutt arrived at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ to study engineering, he had little or no interest in art. But a chance decision to take an elective course in sculpture led him to create an award-winning design melding his engineering skills, musical interests and new-found artistic creativity into a project that has changed the course of his life after graduation. Read More

Ten middle school students who live in public housing will show Nashville what the world looks like through their eyes at an exhibition of their documentary photography and social change work May 8 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Nashville Civic Design Center. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ has partnered with the University of Memphis and East Tennessee State University to host a statewide, free electronics recycling event May 14 to 17. The LP Field parking lots will be the collection point for Middle Tennessee. Read More

Grant recipients were announced this week for the 2008 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Health at One Hundred Oaks Community Grant Program. Read More

A posthumous book by social critic Seymour Melman has been published by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ online journal AmeriQuests. Read More