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Grins (pronounced “greens”) is Yiddish for vegetables and the name of Nashville’s first fully kosher restaurant. Located at the new Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life on the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ campus, the restaurant is now open to the public for breakfast, lunch and afternoon takeout. Read More

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Engineering and the Middle Tennessee Java Users Group will hold a one-day seminar on Web programming technology at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Stadium Club on Friday, Sept. 27. The topics to be addressed are developing Web services using Java™ and developing wireless applications using Java™. Read More

Victims of domestic violence as well as the future lawyers who will represent this growing constituency will benefit from a nearly $259,000 U.S. Department of Justice grant to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School to establish the first domestic violence clinical training program for law students in Middle Tennessee. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Sankaran Mahadevan has been selected by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) to receive the international 2002 Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award. Read More

Nashville business owners surrounding Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ know when the fall semester is about to begin. The signs are everywhere. More traffic along West End and 21st avenues. More foot traffic on sidewalks and in area shops. And more 20-somethings populating neighborhood restaurants, coffee houses and watering holes. Read More

Hungry for knowledge? Thirsty for the truth? Join Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the Nashville Public Library as they serve up the next round of their popular box lunch and lecture series, back after a summer break. Read More

A high school that pulled itself from near extinction and a community college that opens doors of opportunities to rural Tennesseans topped the agenda on the second and final day of the inaugural Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Roads Scholars Tour. Read More

Their arrival on campus will be followed by a week’s worth of traditions and other eventsthat are expected to become traditions, including the first-ever “Founders Walk” Aug. 27 through the main University gate by incoming freshmen, who will be greeted by faculty, staff and current students. Read More

Peter T. Cummings has joined the School of Engineering at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ as the John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering. Read More

The chiefs of Tennessee’s largest public and largest private universities sat down for dinner last night and vowed cooperation, as the first ever “Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Roads Scholar Tour” ended day one of an excursion designed to strengthen ties between the Nashville school and East Tennessee institutions, businesses and people. Read More

A highly decorated Marine Air Group has begun streamlining its planning and reducing operational risk with a new software system developed at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the University of Southern California. Read More

Biologists at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ and the University of Missouri have uncovered what could be a major clue into the mysterious molecular processes that direct cells to the correct locations within a developing embryo. Read More

Four cranes will lift two sections of a nearly 100-foot span of steel over 21st Avenue beginning at midnight Saturday as Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ creates an aerial link between its central campus and the historic Peabody College area. Read More

Political candidates will not be the only ones logging miles on Tennessee’s highways this summer. For the first time, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Chancellor Gordon Gee will hit the road with about 40 newly tenured and newly hired faculty and students to East Tennessee to learn more about the state and to visit areas where Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is engaged in community outreach. Read More

On Aug. 17, organizers from Chicago, Atlanta, New York and other major cities across the country hope to attract millions of people to a protest march on the U.S. Capitol, “built with slave labor”. With the theme “You Owe Us,” the event hopes to build momentum for paying reparations to the descendants of slaves in America. Lawsuits recently filed in New York and New Jersey seeking $1.5 trillion from major corporations for having wrongly profited from the slave trade promise to further fuel this debate. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ faculty are available to offer commentary and insight into widely divergent sides of this issue. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ will host two educational booths with hands-on science and technology experiments for Metro Schools’ students during the Mayor’s First Day Festival Aug. 11 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center. Staff members from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Day On Campus Program and Mel Joesten, professor of chemistry, emeritus, and faculty adviser to Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Student Volunteers for Science, will assist participating students. During one of the experiments, students will discover how to separate colors in the water-soluble ink of a marking pen, utilizing the principles of chromatography. A second experiment teaches students how to develop “invisible ink.” These experiments are part of the kits that Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Volunteers for Science take to Metro Schools throughout the school year. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ is a major sponsor of the First Day Festival, which was created by Mayor Bill Purcell to celebrate the first day of school in Metro. Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Law School has announced several new and newly promoted administrative staff in student affairs, the legal clinic, alumni and development and information technology. Read More

When you gaze at a bowl of fruit, why don\'t some of the bananas look red, some of the apples look purple and some of the grapes look yellow? Read More

Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s two child care centers have received three stars, the highest rank, in the first year of Tennessee’s new star-quality program. Read More

Three faculty of Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Department of Political Science today discussed the 2002 Tennessee primaries and made projections for the November general election. Read More