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It is no surprise that Fred Thompson has jumped into third place nationally among GOP presidential contenders, even without declaring his candidacy, said ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University political scientist John Geer. Read More

Atheism is a religion and it is dominating public schools, says a British philosopher who will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Roger Scruton will be the fourth and last speaker in the "Democracy and Moral Conviction" lecture series. Read More

In hip hop music and videos, young black women are consistently portrayed as sexually insatiable vixens willing to debase themselves for the privilege of even the shortest ride on the music industry party train. Read More

In this day and age women are CEO's, senators, construction workers, stock brokers, economists and more. Women have made their way into every aspect of the workforce and comprise 46 percent of employees. Yet women consistently earn less than men. Read More

Education experts from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Peabody College of education and human development will be presenting their latest research April 9-13, 2007, in Chicago at the American Educational ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Association's annual conference. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations performing low-resolution sampling by including car-mounted sensors that measure, process and report emission levels. Read More

Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to an article published in this week's edition of The Lancet. Read More

The results of the latest and most comprehensive study of public opinion in the Americas concludes that Latin America is drifting toward the political left and experiencing a rise in populism. Read More

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