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Civil rights leader and non-violent activist the Rev. James Lawson will speak at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ this month as part of the University Seminar in Religion and Culture. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's lifelong learning opportunities for older adults will expand and flourish thanks to a $100,000 grant from The Bernard Osher Foundation. Read More

School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read More

On Feb. 28, 2007, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, which represents approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories, reached an agreement on a new three-year contract. The contract was ratified by the union membership March 2, 2007. Read More

Raising hefty sums of cash early in the 2008 presidential campaign puts candidates in the driver's seat for competing successfully in the primaries, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

Three Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Peabody College of education and human development rose to No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional schools released on Friday. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's schools of business, law and engineering all improved their positions. Read More

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Summer Business Institute. Read More

A new Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ study has identified a chemical signal that plays a critical role in forming the heart, which could lead to new strategies to combat congenital heart defects. Read More

Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That's the question the current chief justice of Canada's Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

"I Got a Woman" was a No. 1 R&B hit for Ray Charles in 1955, but the scope of both the song's origins and influence are still largely unappreciated. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ has named Clinical Professor of Management David Owens to assistant to the provost for strategic process innovation. Read More

If Alberto Gonzales survives a growing loss of support on Capitol Hill, the standoff between the executive branch and Congress over whether to require sworn testimony from Bush aides is not likely to reach the courts, according to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ judicial expert Stefanie Lindquist. Read More

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, an expert in women's studies with a particular interest in the lives of African American women, will give Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ about "The Power of Procrastination." Read More

Historian Wilson Miscamble will explore Harry Truman's sudden transition to the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died and its true impact on the outbreak of the Cold War in a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ public lecture on March 26. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Medical Center (VUMC) will participate in a large-scale national clinical trial to learn if the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Read More

Watch live streaming video of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. delivering the third of the three 2007 Impact lectures at 7:30 p.m. March 21. Read More

Watch video of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivering the second of the three 2007 Impact lectures March 20 at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ. Read More