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Green printing, paper recycling, reducing plastic bottles and a reusable lunch bag are among the new green initiatives being implemented this year for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s Commencement activities. Read More

Nashville activist, scholar and author Tommie Morton-Young will receive the Distinguished Alumna Award from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s Peabody College of education and human development during Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 14. Read More

Nearly 100 students, staff and faculty members, and even families in town for Friday’s commencement will be working in Nashville Tuesday, May 11, helping victims from floods that overtook the area last weekend. Read More

A special online ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Flood Relief Fund has been established to get resources directed more efficiently within the university community. Read More

Immortality and uncontrolled cell division are the fundamental differences between cancer cells and normal cells. Read More

Nashville Opera and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory are joining forces to present a unique evening of operatic music and star-gazing on Saturday, May 15. The concert will begin at 7 p.m. but doors will open at 6. The concert will take place in the observatory’s patio tent and guests are encouraged to bring a picnic basket and beverages. Read More

Tradition and technology will each be a part of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s annual Commencement Week activities, which run May 12-14 with the main Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 14. Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos will deliver the traditional Commencement address in a ceremony beginning 9 a.m. on Alumni Lawn. Graduates are invited to tweet their thoughts during the ceremony and a new text messaging service is available for updates on weather, events and other Commencement issues. Read More

As part of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s broad efforts to assist in Middle Tennessee’s flood recovery, up to two weeks paid leave is being granted to faculty, staff and trainees whose personal residences were destroyed or otherwise rendered uninhabitable on May 1-2. The paid time off will be over and above accrued vacation or personal time. Read More

Many in the Nashville community have been adversely affected by the flood and are in need of resource items immediately. To help, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will be hosting a flood relief giveaway of items donated by its employees on Friday, May 7. Read More

While there are still numerous clean up and restoration efforts happening, buildings are up and operational. Read More

Campus officials, faculty and students with final exams on their minds are coming together to bring aid and comfort to members of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ community affected by flooding in Nashville over the weekend. Read More

University officials are monitoring flooding in the Nashville area. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ has created a special website to update information as we get it about the flooding and other inclement weather affecting the Nashville area. Please check it frequently here. Read More

Although Robert Scherrer, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, is a highly regarded cosmologist and an award-winning teacher, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) has selected him as the 2010 recipient of its Klopsteg Memorial Award based on his work as a published science fiction writer. Read More

A ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University professor whose expertise is medieval and Renaissance European history has been named a 2010 Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read More

The latest research on the nation’s key K-12 and higher education issues, from No Child Left Behind to charter schools to higher education funding, will be presented by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Peabody College researchers April 30-May 4 at the American Educational ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Foundation annual conference in Denver, Colo. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Professor of Physics Paul Sheldon heads a multi-institutional team that has received an Internet2 award for a networking system that they have developed to make it easier to move and store mountains of digital data. Read More

An April 28 incident involving a Metro Nashville police officer and a suspect he was attempting to apprehend in a garage adjacent to the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ campus involved no one affiliated with ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. The incident was confined to the garage of the 2525 West End office building and ended quickly with the suspect being taken into custody. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ police responded to assist the Metro police in containing the scene. Read More

As the Obama administration researches candidates to succeed retiring Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ experts are ready to weigh in on Justice Stevens, the Supreme Court and the list of potential nominees. Read More

A poet at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University was named one of "Forty Favorite Poets" by Essence magazine in honor of its 40th anniversary. Stephanie Pruitt, who will receive her Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing May 14 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Commencement ceremonies, was listed alongside such luminaries as Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, Marilyn Nelson and Gwendolyn Brooks. Read More

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