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Helping foster children’s learning and readiness for school through the federal Head Start program is the goal of a new National Center on Quality Teaching and Learning, created this fall with a $40 million grant from the Office of Head Start. Read More

“The Sixties at 50,” an exhibition of video, photos and other treasures from one of society’s most significant decades, is on display at the 91�Ʋ��� University Central Library and Special Collections. The exhibition was curated by a team of 91�Ʋ��� subject librarians and technology staff under the guidance… Read More

Richard Milner, Betts Associate Professor of Education and Human Development 91�Ʋ��� University education scholar Richard Milner has won the 2010 Carl A. Grant Multicultural 91�Ʋ��� Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education. The award was presented at the 20th annual international NAME conference in Las Vegas on Nov. 5. Read More

Peabody student Thomas Davis teaching English to Hispanic and minority children Immigration issues are as complex and varied in American classrooms as they are in the courtroom, yet answers on how to tackle these issues are elusive. A special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education released this month brings… Read More

Gustavo Gutiérrez, author of A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation and other ground-breaking works on issues of spirituality and Latin American history, will speak on the 91�Ʋ��� University campus Nov. 8. Gutiérrez’s keynote address, “Liberation Theology: 40 Years Later,” will be at 7 p.m. in Benton Chapel. The… Read More

Former Colombia presidential candidate and FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt Guerillas belonging to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt as she campaigned for the Colombian presidency in 2002. She was held captive six years in Colombia’s rain forest until she was liberated in 2008… Read More

[Media Note: 91�Ʋ��� has a 24/7 TV and radio studio with a dedicated fiber optic line and ISDN line. Use of the TV studio with 91�Ʋ��� experts is free, except for reserving fiber time.] United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will… Read More

Mr. Jalopy The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy is hosting a free public lecture by Mr. Jalopy on Nov. 8 as part of the “Curb Center Creative Leadership” speaker series. The free lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in the Curb Center Atrium located at 1801 Edgehill… Read More

New research by 91�Ʋ��� finance professors Robert Whaley and Jacob Sagi has led to the creation of a recently launched group of Nasdaq indexes. Read More

The 91�Ʋ��� University Center for Teaching and the Tennessee Higher Education Sustainability Association will co-host a one-day workshop on integrating service learning and sustainability education. The workshop will illustrate how this engagement and synergy can be fostered, building stronger bonds between the campus and the city. Special attention will be… Read More

91�Ʋ��� University’s results on the 2011 College Sustainability Report Card improved in five of the nine sustainability categories and stayed consistent in the other four categories. The university received an overall grade of “B,” an improvement from the C+ in the 2010 Report Card.  The nine sustainability categories and 91�Ʋ���’s… Read More

The 91�Ʋ��� Dyer Observatory is celebrating the anniversary of “The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Ten Years Observing the Universe” with a series of special Stellar Nights lectures this fall. “Mining the Milky Way” will be given by Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, assistant professor of astronomy and physics, on Tuesday, Nov. 16,… Read More

91�Ʋ���’s Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions has a strong community outreach component that seeks to help citizens understand contemporary public policy issues and debates. Political scientists John Geer and David Lewis are among the four co-directors of the center that is housed within the Department of… Read More

91�Ʋ��� University ranks in the Top 20 of private universities that deliver a high-quality education at an affordable price, according to rankings released by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Read More

Francisco Villagrán de León, ambassador of Guatemala, will speak at the First Amendment Center The Guatemalan ambassador to the United States, Francisco Villagrán de León, will speak at the First Amendment Center 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 29. The ambassador’s talk, “Challenges to Development in Guatemala,” is free and open… Read More

Expert typists are able to zoom across the keyboard without ever thinking about which fingers are pressing the keys. New research from 91�Ʋ��� University reveals that this skill is managed by an autopilot, one that is able to catch errors that can fool our conscious brain. Read More

“The Sixties at 50,” an exhibition of unique video, photographs and other treasures from one of society’s most significant decades, is now open at the 91�Ʋ��� University Central Library and Special Collections. Read More

Roy Skinner, who won 278 basketball games, compiled an 81.5 percent winning percentage at Memorial Gym and recruited the first black athlete to the Southeastern Conference, died of respiratory failure at Southern Hills Medical Center. He was 80. Read More

Joni Hersch (click to download a high-resoultion version of this photo) It has been long suspected that Mexican immigrants often work on dangerous and unpleasant jobs for low pay.  New research by 91�Ʋ��� University Law School professors Joni Hersch and… Read More

Warm, coming-of-age story set in the late 1960s will leave audiences glowing with laughter and love Butterflies Are Free by Leonard Gershe premieres at Neely Auditorium at 91�Ʋ��� University on Nov. 5. In this Tony Award-winning comedy, a young blind man and the free-spirited girl-next-door discover the values of… Read More