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"²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ@TPAC@²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ@TPAC" unites the intellectual resources of Nashville's premier educational institution with the cultural flair of the city's leading performing arts organization. "InsideOut of the (Lunch) Box" to be the first program, Feb. 27 Read More

Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the fourth annual ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Students from the Harvard Business School took home the $25,000 prize from the contest, the largest case competition of its kind. Read More

Sima Samar, chair of Afghanistan’s first Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC), will give a talk on the status of Afghan women after Taliban rule at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University Monday, Feb. 24. Read More

Current foreign policy dilemmas, the future role of the United Nations in international affairs and a woman’s view of American history are among the wide-ranging topics offered for the spring term of Retirement Learning at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ March 3 through April 21. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ and four other leading private universities have filed an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School in their efforts to defend the principles of affirmative action in college admissions. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ engineering students will celebrate the lighter side of engineering during National Engineers Week, Feb. 17-22. Read More

Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., Dean of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ School of Nursing, was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Provisional Committee on Institutional and Policy Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the Healthcare Workforce. Read More

Fox Foundation for Parkinson's ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ has awarded one of its competitive Fast Track grants to ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ neuroscientist Richard Nass, Ph.D., to fund his search for drugs that will prevent dopamine nerve cell death. Read More

Children can now use their bedside computers to join a new online community that fosters an environment where children can speak openly and honestly with peers about their illnesses and to provide encouragement to each other. Read More

Forrest E. Harris, Sr., director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on African American Church Studies at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Divinity School will present "Leadership and Struggle in the Black Churches: Then and Now." Read More

Historian Bryan Mark Rigg will discuss his book "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers" at the Ben Schulman Center for Jewish Life at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Read More

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering L. Roy Xu has won a Young Investigator Program award from the U.S. Office of Naval ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ for his research on hybrid interface mechanics and nano-composite materials. Read More

George Fredrickson, one of the leading American scholars on race, will compare and contrast anti-Semitism with racism against people of African descent during a Feb. 27 lecture at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Fredrickson will deliver the annual Byrne lecture at 8 p.m. in the Moore Room (218) of ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Law School. Read More

Noted scholar and orator Cornel West will deliver a talk titled “Race and Democracy” at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University on Thursday, Feb. 13. Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ School of Nursing's Faculty Practice Network (VNFPN) is opening the doors on a new nurse-managed, community-based clinic this week. Read More

Rita D. Hayes, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, Switzerland, will discuss the role of that international organization on current intellectual property issues at 12:10 p.m. Feb. 12 in Flynn Auditorium of the ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Law School. Read More

Noted Afro-Brazilian writer Esmeralda Ribeiro will join in a panel discussion at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Furman Hall on the role of black women in Afro-Brazilian literature and sexism within the black movement in Brazil. The discussion is free and open to the public Read More

Arnold Sameroff, internationally known for his contributions to understanding the factors that put children at risk or protect them as they develop socially, emotionally and academically, will speak at a free public lecture Thursday, Feb. 13, at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s John F. Kennedy Center for ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ on Human Development. Read More

Political pundits James Carville and Mary Matalin and national security expert Gen. Barry McCaffrey will be the featured speakers for the 2003 IMPACT Symposium at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

When a toddler sees herself on a home video, she may say “baby” or “girl” or think it is her sister on television. She knows she is here, in the real world – who is the child on the television? Read More