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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ has received a $40 million Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) - its largest ever government research grant - to expedite the translation of laboratory discoveries to patients in the community. Read More

Conversational lectures from thought-provoking professors and entertaining performance-related presentations - all accompanied with delicious boxed lunches - continue for the 2007-08 school year, thanks to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's thriving community partnerships. Read More

Author Mark Noll, named one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals by Time magazine, will deliver two lectures on "The Bible in American Public Life"as this year's Cole lecturer at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School. Read More

Metro K-12 teachers attending a Sept. 14 workshop sponsored by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies can try dancing the tango with instructors from Tango Nashville. Read More

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Parents v. Seattle nudges the nation further along the path of race-neutral decision-making in the educational arena. Unlike the 2003 Michigan cases that dealt with racial preferences in higher education, the latest case strikes down the use of race in pupil assignment to K-12 schools in Louisville, Ky. and Seattle, Wash. By doing so the Court agreed with the parents that the diversity plans being challenged violated the equal protection rights of the white students to attend the schools of their choice. Read More

For several months last spring, the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ greenhouse held more members of a rare species of native sunflower than are known to exist in the wild. Read More

Acclaimed poet Robin Becker, poetry editor and contributing editor for The Women's Review of Books, will give a public reading from her work at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

The future career path and creative direction of gifted youth can be predicted well by their performance on the SAT at age 13, a new study from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University finds. The study offers insights into how best to identify the nation's most talented youth, which is a focus of the new $43 billion America Competes Act recently passed by Congress to enhance the United States' ability to compete globally. Read More

A pregnant woman is kidnapped outside an abortion clinic and held prisoner - chained to a bed - in an attempt to force her to deliver a baby. Read More

The changing brain, architectural "winners and losers" and the rise of Irish literature are among the topics offered this fall at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Read More

The role of lesbians and gays in the Christian church will be addressed at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University in the inaugural lecture of Ellen T. Armour as the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Associate Professor of Feminist Theology. Read More

Protestant leaders are on an endless quest to make their worship rituals relevant while keeping sight of traditions. During a three-part Relevant Religion workshop beginning Sept. 25, two ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School professors will consider the effectiveness of various new worship styles. Read More

Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, Shalimar the Clown and winner of numerous literary prizes, will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University to open the Chancellor's Lecture Series for the fall 2007 semester. Read More

Watch live streaming video of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ alumnus Perry Wallace delivering the first Walter R. Murray Jr. Memorial Lecture at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Read More

In 2008, Democratic campaign strategists might want to target traditionally Republican congressional districts with heavy casualties in Iraq, according to research by two ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University political scientists. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University maintained its rank of 23rd in the nation in the total value of federal science and engineering research grants awarded to campus researchers, according to an annual report compiled by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Read More

New research from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University and the University of Missouri-Columbia suggests that performance pay for teachers and administrators often has a positive impact on student achievement and should be explored by states and school districts. Their findings are the result of a review of six large current or planned performance-pay programs and the U.S. Department of Education's $500 million Teacher Incentive Fund implemented under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ clinical professor of law Alex Hurder has spent much of his career championing the rights of people with mental and physical disabilities. Now Hurder is taking on an even more powerful role as an advocate for individuals with disabilities. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will host "A Conversation with Gore Vidal" Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Sept. 11, at 8 p.m. in Benton Chapel as part of its Project Dialogue series. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the malaria mosquito uses to zero in on its human prey, an international team of researchers has taken an important step toward developing new and improved repellants and attractants that can be used to reduce the threat of malaria, generally considered the most prevalent life-threatening disease in the world. Read More