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Mayor Karl Dean and businessman Cal Turner Jr. will speak at a May 6 breakfast to introduce an online directory of classes and services for the city’s growing foreign-born population. Read More

Although reading and writing have become essential skills for almost every job, the majority of students do not read or write well enough to meet grade-level demands. A new report co-authored by 91ÌƲ®»¢ researchers Steve Graham and Michael Hebert finds that while the two skills are closely connected, writing is an often-overlooked tool for improving reading skills and content learning. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ Peabody College of education and human development was ranked as the best graduate school of education in the nation by U.S. News & World Report for the second consecutive year. Read More

Camilla Benbow, Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of 91ÌƲ®»¢ University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, testified before Congress April 15 on the role that schools of education, like Peabody, play in ensuring that all students have great teachers and great school leaders. Read More

While students through the years have sought out libraries as places for quiet learning, an increasing number of today’s young people use libraries for collaborative study sessions and instruction classes. Read More

There are two major schools of thought when it comes to educating children and youth with severe learning needs and both are off target, researchers from 91ÌƲ®»¢ and Clemson universities report. The researchers argue a return to the original principles of special education that is informed by modern data and techniques is needed to reform both general and special education. Read More

A lecture about Google’s effect on culture, commerce and community set for April 15 at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University has been canceled. Read More

Ira Berlin, an American historian and author of The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations (Viking 2010), will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University on April 16. Read More

The White House announced that it plans to appoint 91ÌƲ®»¢ associate professor of law and philosophy Nita Farahany to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ physicist Joe Hamilton played a key role in the discovery of element 117, a new super-heavy element that has been created and identified by an international scientific team. Discovery of the new element provides new information about the basic organization of matter and strengthens the likelihood that still more massive elements may form an "island of stability": a cluster of stable super-heavy elements that could form novel materials with exotic and as yet unimagined scientific and practical applications. Read More

RR, an avant-garde film by James Benning about the influence of railroads on the United States, will be screened for free April 10 at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Read More

Elie Wiesel, author and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Monday, April 12, at 7 p.m. at Langford Auditorium. Read More

C. Robert O'Dell, Distinguished 91ÌƲ®»¢ Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at 91ÌƲ®»¢, will deliver the lecture "What Blew Up on the Fourth of July in 1054? The Crab Nebula of Course" on Tuesday, April 13, at 7 p.m. at the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Dyer Observatory. Read More

A national literary journal, Nashville Review, has been launched by graduate creative writing students at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. The journal will operate under a broad definition of literature, including fiction, poetry, comics, songs and films. There will also be interviews of distinguished artists. Read More

Students in 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's World War II history class will watch a P-51 Mustang, arguably the most potent and effective fight plane of that war, fly over the northern part of the 91ÌƲ®»¢ campus at noon on Friday, April 2. Read More

Professional actor, writer and producer Lance Kinsey has been named this spring's Fred Coe Artist-in-Residence by the 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Theatre.  Read More

On Tuesday, March 30, 91ÌƲ®»¢'s high-energy physicists are opening a virtual control room that will allow them to participate fully in the experiments that will be conducted on the world's largest particle accelerator, the $9 billion Large Hadron Collider located in Switzerland. The LHC is beginning its research program on Tuesday and the European Organization for Nuclear 91ÌƲ®»¢ (CERN), which operates the machine, has invited the world's science press to cover the event. Read More

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Keeping track of the latest titles of 91ÌƲ®»¢ University faculty, staff, schools, teams and programs can be a challenge. This guide is designed to help reporters, editors and others who write and report about 91ÌƲ®»¢ accurately refer to its people and places. The Basics Formal name and appropriate first reference:… Read More

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