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Roger W. Ferguson Jr., vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will speak on “September 11, the Federal Reserve and the Financial System” as part of the Owen Distinguished Speaker Series on Feb. 5. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty representing the Law School, the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Divinity School will address the subject of corporate responsibility in a panel discussion on Feb. 3. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s impact on the local economy totaled at least $3.4 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University's economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2002 is up from $3 billion in FY 2001 – a 13 percent increase. Read More

President Bush’s Jan. 28 State of the Union address is his most important opportunity to date to make the case for going to war with Iraq, according to Thomas Schwartz, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ expert on U.S. foreign policy and alliance politics. Read More

Partners of the Heart, a documentary chronicling the 34-year relationship between a white physician and a black lab technician that resulted in a major breakthrough in pediatric cardiac surgery, will be shown Monday, Feb. 3, at 4 p.m. at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Sarratt Cinema. The special screening is free and open to the public. Read More

It’s a business where the cry of “strike” is as devastating to the game itself as to the player swinging the bat. The economic concerns of major league baseball—from labor-management relations and legal issues to competitive balance and contraction—will be the focus of a one-day conference at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ on Feb. 21. Read More

More and more tearful goodbyes are happening across the country between American children and parents who are being deployed because of impending war. Read More

Michael Aurbach, professor of art at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, has been elected president of the College Art Association (CAA), a national organization of more than 14,000 individual artists, art historians and other visual arts and museum professionals. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty are available to offer commentary and insight into what effect the prospect of war—and outbreak, should it happen—will have on the U.S. economy. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, which remains committed to increasing the supply of affordable housing in Nashville, has renewed its five-year $100,000 investment in the Nashville Housing Fund. Through public and private resources, the nonprofit corporation assists low- and moderate-income families and individuals who want to become successful homeowners, and also works with developers to expand affordable housing options in Nashville. Read More

Renee Levine Melammed, assistant dean of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies in Israel will present "Defying the Spanish Inquisition: The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile" on Sunday, Feb. 2, and "The Forgotten Holocaust Victims: Sephardic Jewry," on Monday, Feb. 3. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ law professor Rebecca Brown and Linda Manning, director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, will give a talk on the historic Roe v. Wade decision at a noon lecture on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Read More

Patout Burns, the Edward A. Malloy Professor of Catholic Studies at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Divinity School will lead “The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Church: Explorations of Christianity's Quest for Power,” the fifth in a series of studies exploring religion in the global context of culture, art, politics and economics. Read More

Gisela Mosig, 72, a pioneering genetic researcher and distinguished faculty member at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, died Jan. 12 at Alive Hospice. She had been undergoing cancer treatment for two years. Read More

David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States, will give a series of lectures at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Read More

Kent D. Syverud, dean and Garner Anthony Professor of Law at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School, was installed as president of the American Law Deans Association (ALDA) at the organization’s annual meeting earlier this month. Read More

Since opening its doors 50 years ago, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Arthur J. Dyer Observatory has introduced thousands of Nashvillians to the world of astronomy through school tours, public observation nights and other community programs. Read More

Two of the leading thinkers in class action litigation will meet at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School on Jan. 22 to debate controversial pending legislation that would reform the way class action lawsuits are tried. Read More

A highly competitive graduate-level fellowship program established to encourage economic and democratic growth in Eurasia is bringing a more international flair to the student body at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Peabody College of education and human development. Read More

David Brogan, a Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ biomedical engineering senior who combines his studies with cross-country competition and community involvement, has been chosen to receive one of the prestigious Marshall Scholarships. Read More