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John C. Bogle, founder of The Vanguard Group and president of the Bogle Financial Markets ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Center, will speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 15, as part of the Owen Graduate School of Management's Distinguished Speaker Series. The event, which will be held in Benton Chapel on the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ campus, is free and open to the public. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ anthropologist Tom Dillehay has spent the past 30 years uncovering the ancient history of Chile and other South American countries, in the process changing our understanding of how and when humans first came to the Americas. His contributions to Chilean culture were recognized this fall by Chile's President Ricardo Lagos with an announcement that his work will be used to symbolize Chile's Sello Bicentenario, or bicentennial, which the nation will celebrate in 2010. Read More

Two former U.S. ambassadors and alumni of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will discuss diplomacy during a forum that will be part of International Education Week at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio's award-winning legal affairs correspondent, has cancelled her speaking engagement at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on Thursday, Nov. 10. Read More

Credited with launching the fields of sustained drug delivery and tissue engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Institute Professor Robert S. Langer will give the John R. and Donna S. Hall Engineering Lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11. Read More

An Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and a member of the Nazi Youth Movement will discuss their "uncommon friendship" as part of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Holocaust Lecture Series Thursday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. at the Law School. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University ranks fifth among the "Best Places to Work in Academia," according to a survey of researchers in the life sciences that will be released Nov. 7 in The Scientist magazine. Read More

Polls have shown that Argentina is one of the Latin American nations with a high level of anti-American sentiment, so one cannot be entirely surprised by the protests surrounding the international summit in Mar Del Plata, says ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University political scientist Mitchell Seligson. There has been a recent political shift to the left among several Latin American countries, with tension between the United States and Venezuela of particular note. A number of Latin Americans feel that the benefits of free trade have not yet "trickled down" to them, and that may be helping to fuel the protests. Read More

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new therapy in almost a decade for pancreas cancer, the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Read More

The arts at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ entered a new era with the dedication of the $13 million E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center in the center of campus. "It's not just a place to put an easel, but a lot more. It's a place I can call my own √± my private sanctuary to work out my ideas," said ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ senior Kayla Jones at the Nov. 2 dedication ceremony. Read More

The stars are now much closer for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and Tennessee State University students√≥so close, in fact, that they don't even have to leave their dorm rooms to study them. A new robotic telescope, made possible with funds from NASA and a partnership between TSU and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ's Dyer Observatory, will celebrate its "first light" at its Dyer Observatory home at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 7. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center is recruiting healthy volunteers for the second phase of testing of a novel HIV vaccine regimen that also is being studied in AIDS-battered countries around the world. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University officials and invited guests will dedicate the new $13 million E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center at a 5 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 2. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Chancellor Gordon Gee; Nicholas Zeppos, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs; Richard McCarty, dean of the College of Arts and Science; and E. Bronson Ingram's daughter and a major contributor to the project, Robin Ingram Patton, will be on hand to celebrate the official opening of the 48,000-square-foot facility. Read More

The Dan Marino Foundation has pledged $1.2 million over three years to establish the Marino Autism ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Institute at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center's Treatment and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders and the University of Miami Center for Autism and Related Disabilities. Read More

November offers several opportunities for members of the Nashville community to learn more about developmental disabilities, emotional temperament and art at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Human Development. The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center is located at the corner of 21st Avenue South and Edgehill Avenue. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Law School has received $2.9 million from the settlement of a class action lawsuit to which it was not a party. The award will fund the school's new civil litigation and dispute resolution program, designed to produce graduates with the experience and necessary competencies to make them more productive from their first day at work. Read More

The 17th annual ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Marching Invitational, one of the premiere marching band competitions in the Southeast, happens Oct. 29 on Dudley Field. Read More

The C.I.A. leak case has brought renewed scrutiny of the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq, and there are historical parallels to the Reagan administration's foreign policy during the Iran-Contra scandal, according to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center is enrolling volunteers in a study to test a new vaccine that targets avian flu, the first such vaccine against the virus. The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ trial, led by Kathryn Edwards, M.D., will test the new vaccine in nearly 100 individuals 65 years of age and over. It is the second phase of a national study led by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Read More

A delegation of leaders from South China Normal University, one of the top 10 education colleges in China, will visit Nashville the week of Nov. 7 to formalize a partnership to train both American and Chinese principals in effective leadership, education and management skills. Read More