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An information session on Accelerator — ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Summer Business Institute at the Owen Graduate School of Management will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 222 at the Owen School. Undergraduate students from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and other area colleges and universities and their parents are invited to learn more about ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's unique summer program, and students attending the information session are eligible for a program discount. Read More

W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch, law and economics scholars at Harvard Law School, will join the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University faculty later this year as the law school launches the first program of its kind — a Ph.D. in law and economics. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will examine the legacy of African American fraternities and sororities, which celebrate their 100th birthday this year, during a week of activities Feb. 6-10. Read More

USA Baseball announced today that Tim Corbin of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will serve as head coach of the 2006 USA Baseball National Team that will represent the United States this summer. Read More

Hailed as one of the great voices in contemporary literature, Maya Angelou has worn many hats — poet, bestselling author, actress, historian, playwright, civil rights activist, producer and director — and she will share her experiences Monday, Feb. 27, at a public lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's Memorial Gym. Read More

Sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Rodney Stark, who debunks the notion that Christianity has held back scientific progress in his new book, will preview a new project about why religions succeed or fail during a lecture series at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Members of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University and Nashville communities will gather for a candlelight vigil honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Monday, Jan. 16, at 7 p.m. in the university's Benton Chapel. Read More

James Ransome, illustrator of more than 50 children's books, will deliver the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College 2006 Martin Luther King Lecture Thursday, Jan. 19 at 2 p.m. His lecture, "A Painterly Palette of My Life," will take place in the Wyatt Center Rotunda and is free and open to the public. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ will add women's swimming as a varsity sport by the fall of 2007, possibly sooner, as the result of an internal periodic review of its athletic program. This addition helps insure that the institution is providing opportunity for its student body to compete at the highest levels of intercollegiate athletics. Read More

John Douglas, former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has hunted some of the most notorious criminals of our time and he will share an inside look during a free public lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. Read More

Ed Colker, a noted print-maker and book publisher, will address "Modern Arts of the Book," at 4:10 pm. on Jan. 16 in 114 Furman Hall. A reception will follow his illustrated lecture, which will cover many of the major art movements of the 20th century. Read More

Classroom-based interventions for children with emotional and behavioral disorders was the topic of a Jan. 11 ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Human Devleopment lecture. Read More

Charles Baxter, whose fiction has been described as "a valentine to the Midwest" by The Atlantic, will read from his work on Jan. 30 at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Efforts to reform drug regulation in the wake of the Vioxx withdrawal do not go far enough, according to experts at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center. Read More

A new public service announcement for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University features an urgent drum cadence by the "Spirit of Gold" Marching Band Drumline accompanied by images showing student and academic life. Read More

A study in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs concludes that increasing the number of registered nurses and hours of nursing care per patient would save 6,700 lives. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and Michigan will meet in the 2006 season opener on national television, officials at both universities and ESPN announced Jan. 10. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵers at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ-Ingram Cancer Center have uncovered a clue to explain the invasive nature of an aggressive kind of brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme, or gliomas, and their findings are published in this week's online edition of the journal Oncogene. Read More

The legacy of entertainer Richard Pryor and history of African American comedy will be explored by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University at two January events sponsored by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ legal and political experts Suzanna Sherry and Stefanie Lindquist are available to discuss the qualities that make a good justice, how the Senate should seek to evaluate those qualities in Samuel Alito's confirmation hearing, and the politics surrounding Supreme Court appointments. Read More