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Families, faith and foster care are the focus of the 13th annual Family Re-Union conference, set for Oct. 18 at the downtown Nashville Public Library, located at 615 Church Street. Read More

"Abraham's Bridge," a dialogue about Jewish-Muslim relations,led by interfaith activist Jacob Bender and Wayne State University lecturer Saeed Khan is coming to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Tuesday, Oct. 16. Read More

Virginia Shepherd, a pathology professor at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University and co-chair of the Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics, will take part in two panel discussions on Monday, Oct. 15, as the Knight Commission discusses a faculty survey on intercollegiate athletics. Read More

Paul Cobb, professor of education at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Peabody College of education and human development, is the first recipient of a new endowed faculty chair, the Peabody Chair in Teaching and Learning. Cobb will receive the new title during Homecoming festivities on Friday, Oct. 12. Read More

Former Vice President Al Gore, a former ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ student and moderator for a decade of annual Family Re-Union conferences held at the university, was named a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his work to combat global warming. Read More

Nashville Public Television (NPT) and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University have entered into a new strategic partnership designed to develop, enrich and extend educational programs and services throughout the region. Read More

Scholars from across Europe and the United States with expertise in European history, politics, and cultural studies will meet in Nashville for an international symposium. Hosted by the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, the symposium "Imagining Europe: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent" takes place at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Nov. 1-4. Read More

Leaders of a global immersion trip to Namibia will reflect on the experience during a community breakfast Nov. 1 sponsored by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School. Read More

Allen Shamblin, Steve Seskin and Chuck Jones will perform 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 13, at Dyer Observatory. This final show of the 2007 Bluebird on the Mountain series closes the third year of the highly popular outdoor concerts. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University invites members of the Nashville community to attend its annual homecoming parade on Saturday, Oct. 13, at noon. Read More

Novelist and short story writer Robin Lippincott will read from his work at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Lippincott is the author of the new novel In the Meantime, which follows the intertwined lives of three friends for six decades from a small Midwestern town to Manhattan. Read More

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen has declared Tuesday, Oct. 9, as ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ LifeFlight Day throughout the state of Tennessee, encouraging citizens to join him in observance of the life-saving program celebrating 23 years of service. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University is taking the lead on a landmark study into the emerging field of law and neuroscience - analyzing the human brain to better understand how the brain's actions impact the law. Read More

There are two aspects to creating an effective drug: finding a chemical compound that has the desired biological effect and minimal side-effects and then delivering it to the right place in the body for it to do its job. Read More

An all-star cast of roots music singers and players will perform a benefit concert for Butch Baldassari, a respected Nashville musician, record producer and adjunct associate professor of mandolin at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Blair School of Music, who is battling cancer. Read More

Peter Cummings, John R. Hall Professor of Chemical Engineering at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ, will receive the 2007 American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum Award at the institute's annual meeting in November. Read More

Last week the Federal Reserve surprised the markets with a 50-basis point cut in the Federal Funds rate target, which is somewhat larger than the market anticipated. The Fed cited, "the tightening of credit conditions" and the potential for these conditions "to intensify the housing correction and to restrain economic growth more generally"as justifications for their move. Read More

Like most people who have followed the saga of the Jena Six, I am dismayed by the series of events preceding and following last Thursday's civil rights protest over the disparate treatment of six black teens charged with attempted murder for attacking a white teenager. Read More

All Metro Council representatives are invited to attend a policy seminar co-hosted by Vice Mayor Diane Neighbors and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Oct. 6 at the university's Student Life Center. Read More

Globalization may have transformed the world, but there's still much to learn from how things operated before that monumental shift. Read More