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Some search for God in the contemplative routine of a monastery. Bonnie Miller-McLemore found the divine in piles of laundry needing folding, the sounds of her sons carousing in a playground and "the stench of a dirty diaper, wiping the bottom of a child." Read More

James McPherson, a noted American Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, will deliver a public lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on May 2. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will host a panel discussion, "Keeping Our Promise: HIV/AIDS Ministry and the Black Church" on April 10, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. in room G-23 at the Divinity School. Read More

The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University this month. Read More

Civil rights leader and non-violent activist the Rev. James Lawson will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University this month as part of the University Seminar in Religion and Culture. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's lifelong learning opportunities for older adults will expand and flourish thanks to a $100,000 grant from The Bernard Osher Foundation. Read More

School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read More

On Feb. 28, 2007, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, which represents approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories, reached an agreement on a new three-year contract. The contract was ratified by the union membership March 2, 2007. Read More

Raising hefty sums of cash early in the 2008 presidential campaign puts candidates in the driver's seat for competing successfully in the primaries, according to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

Three ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Peabody College of education and human development rose to No. 3 in U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate and professional schools released on Friday. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's schools of business, law and engineering all improved their positions. Read More

The Trojan War, sparked by the abduction of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is over. The Greeks, led by Odysseus, are victorious. Odysseus has not yet spent his 10 years traveling the world in the tales made famous in Homer's Odyssey. Read More

Adjunct professor of health care innovation and entrepreneurship Michael Burcham is using his expertise as a teacher and a current CEO to lead a team of fellow professors, students and volunteers for this year's Accelerator-²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Summer Business Institute. Read More

A new ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University study has identified a chemical signal that plays a critical role in forming the heart, which could lead to new strategies to combat congenital heart defects. Read More

Will people learn to be more tolerant in the 21st century than we are now? That's the question the current chief justice of Canada's Supreme Court, Beverley McLachlin, will discuss when she speaks at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Law School April 5 at 3:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read More

"I Got a Woman" was a No. 1 R&B hit for Ray Charles in 1955, but the scope of both the song's origins and influence are still largely unappreciated. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University has named Clinical Professor of Management David Owens to assistant to the provost for strategic process innovation. Read More

If Alberto Gonzales survives a growing loss of support on Capitol Hill, the standoff between the executive branch and Congress over whether to require sworn testimony from Bush aides is not likely to reach the courts, according to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University judicial expert Stefanie Lindquist. Read More

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, an expert in women's studies with a particular interest in the lives of African American women, will give ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center's annual lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Wilson Hall, Room 103. Read More

The author of the Piled Higher and Deeper comic strip, which has been called the Dilbert of academia, will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University about "The Power of Procrastination." Read More