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In January, a panel of independent reviewers evaluated the quality, relevance and usefulness of the products of 14 of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs’ (OSEP) national centers funded in 2006–2007. The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements (IRIS II) ranked second, missing the top spot by only .08 points. Read More

Experts from Ģ����Ƶ’s Peabody College of education and human development are available to discuss issues related to the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act in 2014. Read More

Researchers analyzed data from the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) used by the George W. Bush administration to grade the effectiveness of federal programs. Read More

Federal judges will reflect and learn at a Ģ����Ƶ seminar designed to help them meet the extraordinary demands, both personal and professional, of their work. Read More

A brain-mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cognitive skill may underlie the profound difficulty with social interactions that characterize the disorder. Read More

Doctors and other health care workers need to be advocates for improving not just biological conditions, but also social ones, said the director of Ģ����Ƶ’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society. Read More

Fritz Eichenberg’s technical expertise in the difficult and now somewhat obscure medium of wood engraving, combined with his discerning eye and passion for literature, does more than illustrate words on a page. Read More

The method of selecting state appellate court judges will be discussed March 21 at a forum at Ģ����Ƶ Law School which is free and open to the public. Read More

The original thesis of John Ridley Stroop, who discovered one of the most famous tasks in cognitive psychology while studying for his doctoral degree at Peabody College, was donated to Ģ����Ƶ by his son Fred. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ's LAPOP researchers say people who have been asked to pay a bribe or been the victim of a crime are more likely to leave their Central America homeland seeking a new life. Read More

Deliverance Helped Make James Dickey, BA’49, MA’50, a Household Name. Forty Years Later It Casts a Long Shadow over Southern Appalachia.

Dean Eric Johnson, center, stands with volunteers for the New York City Chapter: Ben Crane, BA’12, Alex Quintana, BA’05, MSF’06, Lisa Ganz, BA’13, Jamie Hooker, BA’12, Jena Acuff, BA’07 (Photo by Shia Levitt) Eighty-four Ģ����Ƶ alumni and guests attended the Feb. 18 Tech Entrepreneurship Panel… Read More

Black Girls CODE founder Kimberly Bryant is available on Thursday, Feb. 20, to discuss introducing girls of color to tech careers. Read More

Ģ����Ƶ biologists have discovered that mosquito sperm have a “sense of smell” and that some of same chemicals that the mosquito can smell cause the sperm to swim harder. Read More

It may take repeated and varied exposure to anti-spear phishing messages before employees get the message, according to research. Read More

A Ģ����Ƶ economist turned his expertise back onto his own discipline and has published a 15-year analysis of graduate economics education in the United States. Read More

International scholars hailing from China, Guinea, Kosovo, Lebanon, Mauritania, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia and Swaziland will share their culture with students at Eakin Elementary School Jan. 27—31. Read More

Support for political tolerance remains strong in many Latin American and Caribbean nations, but in others a move in the opposite direction “represents alarming news,” concludes a study by Ģ����Ƶ’s Latin American Public Opinion Project. Read More

Five tips to help you — and your nose — survive crazy weather changes. Read More

Published on Jan 21, 2014 Jan. 16 class: Haley’s Comet; Nashville’s first skyscraper; Prohibition in Tennessee; city reservoir on 8th Avenue; East Nashville fire; the Dutchman’s Bend train collision; Spanish flu and more. “The Decade When the World at Home & Abroad Began to Change: 1910-1920” with Carole Bucy,… Read More