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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ reported April 20 at a meeting of the American Physical Society reveals that the early universe may have behaved like a liquid in the first few microseconds after the Big Bang. Physicists from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University were part of a prestigious international team that made the surprising findings. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Chancellor Gordon Gee presented five faculty members with annual awards when ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ‘s Spring Faculty Assembly convened April 4. Read More

Richard Davidson, a psychologist who studies adults and young children who have or are at risk for emotional disorders, autism and other developmental disorders, will speak at the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Kennedy Center for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Human Development on Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University professors Lynn Fuchs and Doug Fuchs are the recipients of the Special Education ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Special Interest Group of the American Educational ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Association (AERA) 2005 Distinguished ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Award. Read More

Members of Expressions, the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Community Outreach Partnership Center‘s after-school dance program for local teens, will perform "FUSION" April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Tennessee State University‘s Recital Hall. Read More

There aren‘t many people who can pull a fighter jet weighing more than 14,000 pounds 47 feet in 60 seconds. There aren‘t many people who have a 3.1 grade point average with a major in chemical engineering. There aren‘t many men, much less women, who can claim to have accomplished both difficult feats. ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Junior Kara Mann has achieved both and is a strong woman in every sense of the word as she defies stereotypes on a daily basis. Read More

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is the featured speaker for the April 25 annual meeting for Retirement Learning at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Blackburn, who represents Tennessee‘s 7th District and is a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, will discuss findings from her recent trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel. Read More

Disparities in health care based on race and culture will be discussed during a three-day conference at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University that will bring participants from the United States, Canada and Europe to campus. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Dyer Observatory will take on the festive air of Carnival time in the Caribbean on Sunday, April 24, when the Commodore Steel Drum Band performs as part of the Music on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Students from six area high schools and nine middle schools will demonstrate their enthusiasm and expertise with technology during an April 13 competition at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ‘s Wyatt Center. Read More

Bi-weekly conversations this fall among 13 students at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will be the modest beginnings of a movement designed to eventually transform the experience of every graduate student on campus. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University‘s School of Engineering will play an important role in a major new $19 million National Science Foundation (NSF) multi-institutional center to protect the nation‘s computer infrastructure from cyber attacks while improving its reliability. Read More

The Chancellor of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will be appointed to the board of trustees of the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, the White House announced. President Bush intends to appoint Gordon Gee to a six-year term on the 13-member board, which oversees programs to "encourage and support research, study and labor designated to produce new discoveries in all fields of endeavor for the benefit of mankind." Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University and the University of Pennsylvania challenges the American Psychiatric Association‘s position that antidepressant medications are the only effective treatment for moderately to severely depressed patients. Read More

Jack Matlock, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, will reflect on changes in U.S. foreign diplomacy from the Cold War to the War on Terror during an upcoming lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Read More

T. John Koo, assistant professor of computer engineering, has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support his efforts to pioneer a new science that will help engineers do a better job of designing the wide array of "smart devices" which contain microchips and are spreading rapidly throughout modern society. Read More

Nashville kids ages 4 to 18 are invited to enter a new local art contest to help decorate the Learning Sciences Institute at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

It‘s nature‘s fastest quick-change artist: In less than the time it takes a beam of light to travel a tenth of a millimeter, vanadium dioxide can switch from a transparent to a reflective, mirror-like state. Read More

Peter Guralnick, biographer of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke and a visiting professor at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University, will read from his work this month at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University will look within the borders of its own campus for potential bone marrow donors during a registry drive on Thursday, April 7. Read More