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Marlon C. Lynch, chief and director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's Police and Public Safety Department, has been named ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's assistant police chief. He officially joins the university's police force Aug. 22. Read More

Before they even pick up their keys this weekend to their new "home" away from home, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University freshmen can "surf the net" on their laptops via wireless network access — in campus parking lots, no less. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University has launched a major study in collaboration with the Forest Stewardship Council to determine what constitutes the social impact of responsible forest management in the Americas and how that impact can best be measured. Read More

The fourth annual ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Roads Scholars Tour rolls out on Wednesday, Aug. 17, taking Chancellor Gordon Gee and about 50 faculty, senior administrators, staff, student leaders and a member of the Board of Trust to parts of Tennessee and Alabama. Initiated in 2002 with a trip to East Tennessee, the annual tour is designed to welcome new faculty and to familiarize them and other members of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ community with the region. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Law School has named Todd Morton, one of the most talented and experienced law school admissions officers in the nation, to head its admissions program. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University's campus will be a hub of activity next week as upperclassmen return to campus and incoming freshmen prepare to step on campus for the first time as official students. In anticipation of the start of classes on Aug. 24, the university will host a variety of activities to welcome new and returning students and introduce new students to campus life. Read More

If your partner seems to be ignoring you after a flash of nudity on the television screen, it might not be his or her fault. New research indicates that people shown erotic or gory images frequently fail to process what they see immediately afterwards. Read More

From the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and from the University of the South to Jack Daniel's Distillery, the cultural, educational and economic engines of southeastern and Middle Tennessee and north and central Alabama will be showcased on the fourth annual ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Roads Scholars Tour. Read More

The Crohn‘s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) and ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center (VUMC) are hosting the third annual Living With Crohn‘s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis patient education program. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University has raced up the list of national research-spending rankings, according to a July report from the National Science Foundation on research and development expenditures. The university advanced nine places in the agency‘s rankings to 30th, placing it between Emory University, which ranked 29th, and the California Institute of Technology, which ranked 31st. The rankings are based on the university‘s federal research expenditures in fiscal year 2003. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ researchers are two of the authors of a research study released today that revealed seafood from the area close to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska currently is not threatened by radioactive materials resulting from underground nuclear tests carried out at Amchitka Island between 1965 and 1971. Read More

Need for federal protection of voters remains relevant issue: Given the flurry of new voting requirements in Georgia, Indiana, Ohio and other states, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 still resonates today with its continued protection of those engaged in elections, says Devin Fergus, a ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University expert on 20th century African-American political history. Read More

Both the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and recently revised New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ listing standards prescribe a high percentage of outside directors on the corporate boards of public companies. This could spell disaster for certain types of companies, cautions Charu Raheja, assistant professor of finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Joan King, Ph.D., M.S.N., R.N.C., a cancer survivor and director of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University School of Nursing‘s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program, has been chosen to ride across the country alongside seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong in a campaign called the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope. Read More

Songwriters Fred Knobloch, Don Schlitz and Thom Schuyler will perform at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 13, at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Ruth Rogaski also honored with Berkshire Conference First Book Prize. Read More

An international team of biomedical engineers has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to grow healthy new bone reliably in one part of the body and use it to repair damaged bone at a different location. Read More

Rift within the AFL-CIO about class, not power: Dan Cornfield, ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University labor expert and professor of sociology, says the labor unions‘ split is not a power grab, but a response to the AFL-CIO‘s not giving priority to recruiting low-wage workers. He says the dissident unions tend to organize low-wage service and construction workers — who are also disproportionately women, ethnic-racial minorities and immigrants Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ‘s emergency physicians are seeing an increase in the number of heat-related emergencies and are urging the public to take precautions in the extreme heat. Read More

Responding to marketplace demand for health care leaders with advanced and specialized education, the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Owen Graduate School of Management has announced a health care MBA program that will have its students working in close collaboration with professionals at the top-ranked ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Medical Center and with some of the country‘s most innovative health care companies. Read More