Releases
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²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s impact on mid-state economy increases to $3 billion
²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s impact on the local economy totaled at least $3 billion last year, according to a recently completed analysis. The University\'s economic impact on the Middle Tennessee region in fiscal year 2001 is up from $2.8 billion in FY 2000 – a 7 percent increase. Read MoreJan 14, 2002
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Pulitzer Prize winner Jared Diamond to speak at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ
Cultural critic and physiologist Jared Diamond had studied bird evolution in New Guinea for 34 years when one day a local politician asked him two very direct evolutionary questions: Why had New Guineans continued to use stone tools until relatively recently, and why had Europeans and Americans been the ones to introduce them to steel tools, books and ships? Read MoreJan 4, 2002
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Music the focus of events celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University
A performance by the internationally renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers, improving Black-Jewish relations through jazz, and music as a means of HIV/AIDS intervention are just some of the highlights Jan. 14-29 during ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s 2002 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series – “Music, Memory & The Movement: The Sounds of Liberation.” Read MoreJan 3, 2002