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In a poor economic climate riddled with corporate scandals, good leadership can be hard to find. The Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will present a workshop about "Personal Responsibility and Moral Leadership in the Professions" on Saturday, Jan. 24, from 8 a.m. to noon in the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School's Reading Room. Read More

On a break from her "Listening Tour through the Axis of Evil," Kelly Hayes-Raitt will speak Jan. 29 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Leadership Breakfast about her experiences as an activist, political consultant and writer. Read More

One of the most important themes to listen for in Barack Obama's inaugural address is a call for a united American body or citizenry, says Vanessa Beasley, an associate professor of communication studies at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Beasley is the author of You, The People: American National Identity in Presidential Rhetoric, which looks at previous inaugural addresses from 1885 to 2001. Read More

As the curtain falls on the Bush presidency, we will inevitably try to assess his legacy. So will President Bush. He's been doing interviews, holding press conferences, and just delivered his farewell address all in an effort to define that legacy. Read More

Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture Monday, Jan. 19, for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Listen to Blair Professor Greg Barz on Wisconsin Public Radio\'s "Higher Ground." podcasts interviews and music from the World Music Spotlight. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will host several events to mark the historic inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. All events are free and open to the public. Read More

Voters in Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams' district could continue to support and re-elect the Elizabethton representative – even if he switches parties – says ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University political scientist Christian Grose. Read More

Dhavan Shah, a leading national researcher on how political ads and digital media work in tandem to influence politics, will present "Network Nation: How Campaign Ads and the Internet Shape Participation" on Wednesday, Jan. 28, from noon-2 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

The literature of Flannery O'Connor, especially the theology that informs it, will be examined during a series sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Associate Professor of History Leor Halevi has received the 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press). Read More

Butch Baldassari, a Blair School of Music professor who created a cottage industry around his love of mandolin music, died Saturday at a Nashville hospice. He was 56. Read More

With all the focus on the president-elect's views about the Burris appointment and the economic stimulus, we forget that Barack Obama is about to assume responsibility as chief executive of an organization that employs close to 2 million civilian employees. Obama's fortunes as president will depend in large part on his success at taking charge of the machinery of government. Read More

James A. Webb Jr., a three-sport athlete at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, prominent Nashville banker and an emeritus member of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Board of Trust and the board of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Medical Center, died Thursday at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. He was 86. Read More

Major Cathy Ryan was named interim police chief at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, replacing departing Chief Marlon Lynch while a national search is launched for his successor. Lynch resigned his ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ position effective Feb. 1 to take a job as associate vice president for safety and security at the University of Chicago. Read More

Films from Russia, South Korea, Israel, India, Romania and the United States are in the lineup for the International Lens Film Series this spring at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. All the films in the series will be free and open to the public. Read More

America's arduous struggle over competing visions of nationhood involving race is a giant step closer to resolution with the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, says ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University historian Gary Gerstle. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Jan. 14 about his new book God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe. Read More

Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University was judged No. 15 as a "best value" university in rankings released by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Read More