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Dhavan Shah, a leading national researcher on how political ads and digital media work in tandem to influence politics, will present "Network Nation: How Campaign Ads and the Internet Shape Participation" on Wednesday, Jan. 28, from noon-2 p.m. at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Read More

The literature of Flannery O'Connor, especially the theology that informs it, will be examined during a series sponsored by the Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture program at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Divinity School. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University Associate Professor of History Leor Halevi has received the 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press). Read More

Butch Baldassari, a Blair School of Music professor who created a cottage industry around his love of mandolin music, died Saturday at a Nashville hospice. He was 56. Read More

With all the focus on the president-elect's views about the Burris appointment and the economic stimulus, we forget that Barack Obama is about to assume responsibility as chief executive of an organization that employs close to 2 million civilian employees. Obama's fortunes as president will depend in large part on his success at taking charge of the machinery of government. Read More

James A. Webb Jr., a three-sport athlete at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, prominent Nashville banker and an emeritus member of the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Board of Trust and the board of 91ÌƲ®»¢ Medical Center, died Thursday at 91ÌƲ®»¢. He was 86. Read More

Major Cathy Ryan was named interim police chief at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, replacing departing Chief Marlon Lynch while a national search is launched for his successor. Lynch resigned his 91ÌƲ®»¢ position effective Feb. 1 to take a job as associate vice president for safety and security at the University of Chicago. Read More

Films from Russia, South Korea, Israel, India, Romania and the United States are in the lineup for the International Lens Film Series this spring at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. All the films in the series will be free and open to the public. Read More

America's arduous struggle over competing visions of nationhood involving race is a giant step closer to resolution with the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, says 91ÌƲ®»¢ University historian Gary Gerstle. Read More

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Levering Lewis will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Jan. 14 about his new book God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe. Read More

Charles McDew, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and its chairman from 1961 to 1964, will deliver the keynote lecture for 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Series. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University was judged No. 15 as a "best value" university in rankings released by Kiplinger's Personal Finance. Read More

The 91ÌƲ®»¢ Owen Graduate School of Management will host a free workshop for Nashville-area companies to learn how to get the ideal intern for their business. The workshop will be held at the Owen School, Room 218, on Jan. 16 at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 7:30 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ won a bowl game for the first time in exactly 53 years after Bryant Hahnfeldt kicked a 45-yard field goal with 3:26 left to beat Boston College 16-14 Wednesday in the Music City Bowl. Read More

For risk-takers and impulsive people, New Year's resolutions often include being more careful, spending more frugally and cutting back on dangerous behavior, such as drug use. But new research from 91ÌƲ®»¢ finds that these individuals—labeled as novelty seekers by psychologists—face an uphill battle in keeping their New Year's resolutions due to the way their brains process dopamine. Read More

Cornelia Heard, professor of music and chair of the strings department of the Blair School of Music at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, has been named the holder of the newly created Valere Blair Potter Chair. The chair is endowed through a gift to the university by the grandchildren of Valere Blair Potter. Read More

Lauren J. Brisky, who has overseen the financial and administrative operations of 91ÌƲ®»¢ University for the past decade as the university has made spectacular gains in its research, health care and educational endeavors, announced Dec. 26 she will retire Feb. 1, 2009, after 20 years at 91ÌƲ®»¢. Read More

Space 204, the gallery of the Department of Art at E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, will debut two new exhibitions with a reception on Thursday, Jan. 8. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ by 91ÌƲ®»¢ University professors on Chinese architecture and the Trojan War are among grants announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

Marlon Lynch, assistant vice chancellor and chief of police at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, has made Security Magazine's Top 25 Most Influential People in the Security Industry list for 2008. Others on the list include government leaders, industry authors, chief security officers and research pioneers. Read More