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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

For the last week, astronomers gathered in Prague have debated, among other topics, what the right answer is to the question 'Is Pluto a planet?' This debate has captured the attention of huge numbers of people, many of whom have passionate opinions on this question. And now, by the vote of a small majority from among the 424 professional astronomers who happen to be members of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) — I am not — and who also bothered to attend the first part of the final plenary session of the meeting — more than 2000 persons attended the IAU meeting but did not participate in the vote — a decision has been made. The answer: vagueness and confusion. This debate will continue. Read More

Earlier this year, with surprisingly little media attention, we celebrated a major milestone in the fight against cancer — for the first time in record-keeping history, the number of American lives lost to cancer declined. Read More

From adolescence on, I heard a constant refrain from my Indian father: "Don't ever believe that you're really American." I found his advice peculiar, especially as I had been living in America since age 8 and had largely forgotten my time in India. To him, it didn't matter that the only language in which I could think a complex thought was English. It didn't matter that the only music I listened to was Michael Jackson, the Bee Gees and Billy Joel. Read More

Elliot W. Eisner, Lee Jacks Professor of Education and professor of art at Stanford University, will speak Friday, Sept. 29, at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Student Life Center. The speech is the second of the 2006-2007 Chancellor's Lecture Series and part of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's annual Family Weekend. Read More

A new study suggests that taking a wait-and-see approach before giving antibiotics to children with acute ear infections results in significantly lower use of antibiotics, with little difference in outcomes for the children. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Tracy Sharpley-Whiting is the winner of the 2006 Horace Mann Medal. The medal is awarded each year to a Brown University Graduate School alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions to scholarly research. Read More

"The Shape of Things," by Neil LaBute, will debut Thursday, Sept. 28, at Neely Auditorium at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. The critically acclaimed play follows the moves of an art student who makes it her mission to transform a nerdy, insecure, overweight undergraduate into her confident, stylish, good-looking lover. Although the transformation seems beneficial at first, unpleasant consequences soon ensue. Read More

Paul Rusesabagina, the hotel manager who saved more than 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide of 1994 and inspired the movie Hotel Rwanda, will speak Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Student Life Center. Read More

"Remembering Sept. 11" will be the focus of a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University interactive videoconference on Monday, Sept. 11, with Professor James Booth, whose research includes the remembrance of national events. Read More

Allan Guyet, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's chief of police for the past eight years, will retire at the end of the year. Read More

An album produced by two ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University professors is the first music collection to be added to a National Endowment for the Humanities collection of works which strengthen students' understanding of American history and culture. Read More

The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University community will mark the five-year anniversary of Sept. 11 with a morning remembrance and an open roundtable discussion led by faculty in the afternoon. Read More