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For a little more than a year, members of the U.S. military serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and their families wrote about their wartime experiences and now these uncensored writings will be shared Wednesday, Nov. 29, at 4:10 p.m. in Room 103 of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University‘s Wilson Hall. Read More

The Meharry/²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ-Ingram Cancer Partnership has been awarded $14 million by the National Cancer Institute for research that seeks to reduce cancer mortality among African Americans and other minorities. Read More

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ-Ingram Cancer Center and AstraZeneca have developed a master scientific agreement to streamline and integrate collaborations in basic, translational and clinical cancer research, officials with the company and cancer center announced today. Read More

All it took to rip the roof off Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in 1988 was the gradual corrosion around rivet holes that had, over time, created tiny cracks in the Boeing 737‘s fuselage that suddenly combined with fatal results. Read More

Jan O. Pedersen, chief scientist for search and marketplace with Yahoo!, has cancelled his Nov. 30 speaking engagement at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Peterson was to lecture on "Web Search: How Does it Work?" Read More

The challenges of evaluating the moral complexities of people‘s actions in war — military and civilian — propelled ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University historian Michael Bess to write about World War II, a conflict that he said is too often depicted in morally simplistic terms. Read More

A team of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ chemists whose work could make the light bulb pass√à and cut electricity consumption by half are among the recipients of Popular Mechanics magazine‘s 2006 Breakthrough Awards. Read More

A team of students from the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Owen Graduate School of Management won first place at the 11th annual International Case Competition Nov. 10-11 at Carnegie Mellon University‘s Tepper School of Business. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center‘s vice chancellor for Health Affairs, Harry R. Jacobson, M.D., has announced the creation of the Annette Schaffer Eskind Chair to be held by Pat Levitt, Ph.D., the director of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Human Development. Read More

A ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ student has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to study in England.John Jumper hopes for placement at the University of Cambridge, where he would use the scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics. The senior in the College of Arts and Sciences has already taken enough of the graduate curriculum in physics to gradate with a master‘s degree. Read More

Nattaly Perryman, a junior majoring in African American and Diaspora Studies at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, is the first recipient of the Global Leaders scholarship from American Airlines. The scholarship is a partnership between the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Study Abroad Office and American Airlines. Read More

A ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center (VUMC) LifeFlight helicopter touched down at Arnold Engineering Development Center‘s (AEDC) airfield recently as part of a training effort to conduct airborne emergency evacuation familiarization training. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center has achieved designation as a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Read More

Much like the electrical wiring in your house, the nerves in your body need to be completely covered by a layer of insulation to work properly. Instead of red, white or black plastic, however, the wiring in the nervous system is protected by layers of an insulating protein called myelin. Read More

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., has been named the 2006 recipient of the American Heart Association‘s Basic Science ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Award. Read More

An international student adviser and a professor from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University were awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2006-07 academic year, according to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University community members who want to "think locally and act globally" have a new resource on campus — the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ International Office (VIO). The office opens officially on Nov. 15 — during International Education Week (Nov. 13-17). Read More

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Owen Graduate School of Management has established a Board of Visitors, an advisory group of leading corporate executives, to further strengthen its connection and ensure relevance to the national and international business communities, Dean Jim Bradford announced. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Read More

Best-selling author John M. Barry will speak Thursday, Nov. 30, at Ingram Hall at the Blair School of Music on the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University campus. Read More