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Moving up two places from rankings announced last year, researchers from the Department of Pediatrics at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ are listed as sixth in the nation for federal funding of pediatric research with grants in 2005 totaling $20,238,000. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ mathematicians is getting increased recognition via one of the top industry standards — how often its published papers are cited in major mathematics journals. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's "Meet the Candidates" community picnic on Oct. 6 is expected to be one of the area's largest and most festive political gatherings prior to the Nov. 7 election. The picnic provides an excellent opportunity for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's students, faculty and staff as well as the university's neighbors, to learn more about the campaigns. Read More

The First Amendment, current health issues and historical presidential elections are just a few of the varied topics offered for the fall term of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Retirement Learning program Oct. 7 through Nov. 17. Read More

The stage is set for Shinzo Abe to become Japan's new Prime Minister Sept. 26 following his election as the leader of the country's ruling party. Read More

Local religious leaders and interested members of the public are invited to conversations with ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University researchers on Christianity and the environment on Saturday, Sept. 30. Read More

Kevin Klose, president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio (NPR), will speak Sept. 27 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Law School. Read More

The Holocaust Lecture Series at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ, the longest continuous holocaust lecture series at an American university, turns its attention this year to damage intentionally wrought upon their victims' rich cultures by Nazi Germany and other genocidal regimes. Read More

On Saturday, Oct. 21, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University School of Medicine and the Melanoma ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Foundation (MRF) will host an educational symposium for melanoma patients, family and health care providers. Read More

Historian and author Lamin Sanneh, a significant voice in inter-religious dialogue, will deliver the 2006 Cole Lectures at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Tennessee State and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ universities' bands will join forces for three performances at the historic football match-up between the two schools on Saturday, Sept. 23. Read More

The Fall of Fujimori, the complex story of a former Peruvian president who is fighting extradition from Chile on charges of corruption, murder and human rights abuses, will be screened Sept. 27 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Ellen Perry, director and producer of this award-winning documentary, will attend the screening, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. in Wilson Hall's Room 103. Read More

Award-winning poet A.E. Stallings will read from her work at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on Monday, Oct. 9. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Kenneth C. Catania, a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University neuroscientist who studies odd-looking mammals for clues about the workings of the human brain, was named Tuesday as a MacArthur Fellow. Read More

A $2.48 million, four-year grant is the largest ever made by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (BCBST) Health Foundation, making a significant collaborative project possible that may save babies' lives and save millions of dollars in health care money for Tennesseans. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies has received a prestigious $1.5 million federal grant from the Department of Education to assist faculty and students working in Latin America as well as to expand an outreach program for local public schools and the Nashville community. Read More

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College of education and human development has created a new resource to help employers tap the talent of the college's growing numbers of master's students and alumni in non-traditional education programs. Read More

Two ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College literacy and language experts are available to discuss why a resolution under consideration by the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County to ban the use of bilingual services by many Metro agencies will not help non-English speakers learn the language and could in fact further isolate them from speakers of English and necessary services. Read More

Gov. Phil Bredesen's new initiative to reduce the dropout rate is badly needed and well-timed, according to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College Professor of Special Education Carolyn Hughes. Read More

On the recent fifth anniversary of 9/11, Americans faced anew a choice between fear and compassion. Five years have passed since that bright blue, cloudless, horrific morning. Since then it has become a truism to say that American life has changed unalterably. In the coming weeks, politicians and pundits will pontificate about how 9/11 changed American life. But a prior, more basic question will remain unasked: Why should that day change the very fabric of our common life? Should heightened security concerns corrode our national character? Must it lessen who we are? Read More