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The ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Alumni Association Board is seeking nominations for the Distinguished Alumnus/a Award and five additional awards. Read More

Construction crews working on ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s new ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Barnard residential college will begin blasting Monday, Sept. 12. Traffic on West End Avenue will be affected. Read More

A new report highlights the need to improve college affordability, especially for lower-income families. Read More

High-achieving black students are half as likely as their white peers to be assigned to gifted education. Their teachers’ race may explain why. Read More

When Tennessee’s governor wanted to develop better principals, he turned to the experts at Peabody College. Read More

Could an emphasis on mental toughness be harming the psychological and physical health of black students? Read More

²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University’s pioneering Academic Strategic Plan, now in its third year, continues to drive the institution forward, creating innovative solutions for the important issues facing society. Read More

New research from ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Peabody College looks at the constraints of a popular teaching practice. Read More

Students return Aug. 20 for move-in weekend at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University. Read More

Before Commencement in May, 1,195 members of the Class of 2016 made gifts to the annual Senior Class Fund, representing a record-high 76 percent participation rate.

It has been 47 years since Ben Shahn’s mosaic Peabody—1968 was dedicated in the Hobbs Human Development Laboratory on what was then the campus of George Peabody College for Teachers. The effort to commission Shahn, an artist well known for his advocacy for the poor, was spearheaded by Susan Gray, professor of psychology, emerita, and an advocate for children, particularly those held back developmentally by poverty. Read More

New fossil evidence strengthens the proposition that the world’s first mass extinction was caused by ‘ecosystem engineers’ – newly evolved organisms that radically altered the environment. Read More

Faculty at ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Peabody College are available to comment on trends in K-12 and higher education. Read More

Associate Professor of Psychology Bunmi Olatunji is one of 45 members elevated this year to the status of fellow by the Association for Psychological Science. Read More

A team of engineers and psychologists have developed a virtual reality driving simulator designed to help teenagers with autism spectrum disorder learn to drive, a key skill in allowing them to live independent and productive lives. Read More

The Peabody Reflector is published twice annually, in January and July, by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ Peabody College of education and human development in cooperation with ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ University News and Communications, 2100 West End Ave. Suite 1100, Nashville, TN  37203. It is produced by ²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ’s Creative Services and Printing Services, and University… Read More

Peabody’s 2016 Commencement ceremony took place on Peabody Esplanade May 13, where 629 undergraduate students and 64 graduate students earned their diplomas. Lenora Peters-Gant (²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ) U.S. security and intelligence expert Lenora Peters Gant received the 2016 Distinguished Alumna Award during Commencement May 13. Gant earned a master’s of… Read More

Gary Henry (²¤ÂÜÊÓƵ) Evaluating the North Carolina Transformation, a new initiative to turn around 79 of the state’s lowest-performing schools, is the focus of a study led by Gary Henry, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education. The research is supported by a five-year, nearly $5… Read More

Sometimes researchers must face that their work has produced unexpected and counterintuitive results. Read More

When Peabody professors Mark Lipsey and Dale Farran embarked on a study to evaluate the long-term benefits of Tennessee’s multimillion-dollar voluntary prekindergarten program, they fully expected conventional wisdom to prevail. After all, pre-K is known to close the achievement gap, prepare children for school, and jump-start early learning. The numbers should bear that out, right? Turns out it wasn't that simple. Read More