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Musician and social activist Bob Geldof will receive 91ÌƲ®»¢ University\'s third Nichols-Chancellor\'s Medal and the cash prize of more than $100,000 on May 8, when he will address graduating seniors and their families. Read More

Prominent Muslim scholar Amina Wadud will lecture at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University on "Islam, Gender and Change" for the annual Antoinette Brown Lecture. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢\'s Dyer Observatory is open to the public at least once a month starting in March for either a free Open House Telescope Night or an Exploration Night. Reservations are required for Exploration Nights and there is a $5/person, $10/family fee. Read More

Creative approaches to preaching and worship in African American Christianity will be detailed in classes led by two 91ÌƲ®»¢ Divinity School professors as part of 91ÌƲ®»¢\'s Relevant Religion Series. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢\'s eighth chancellor promised "my hardest work" and reflected about the journey of his family from Greece to America as he addressed the entire 91ÌƲ®»¢ community for the first time as chancellor, instead of interim chancellor. Read More

Affordable housing - in Nashville and across the nation - is the topic of a daylong conference Thursday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University\'s Peabody College Wyatt Center. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ education researcher Christopher Loss has won the American Education 91ÌƲ®»¢ Association, Division J (Post-Secondary Education) Dissertation of the Year Award. Read More

A distinguished group of scholars, journalists and activists will grapple with some of the thorniest issues of immigration during a March 20-21 symposium at the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Law School. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ will celebrate the selection of Nicholas S. Zeppos as the university\'s eighth chancellor during a special open house Monday, March 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Student Life Center. Read More

Franz Rosenzweig was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, and in recent years his journals, letters and writings have been an important spur to thinking about the possibilities and limits of the humanities. He also remains a central figure in fields as varied as literature, history, philosophy and religious studies. Read More

In the space of only five weeks, three Nobel Prize-winning physicists will visit the 91ÌƲ®»¢ campus and provide local researchers with updates on the latest developments in fields ranging from cosmology to the behavior of atoms to science education. Two of the three will also give free public lectures while they are here. Read More

When your mother told you to eat your vegetables it appears that maternal wisdom had a scientific basis. 91ÌƲ®»¢ers with 91ÌƲ®»¢-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China have discovered a possible link between a diet rich in certain vegetables and a decreased risk for breast cancer. The study appears in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Read More

The arrival of daylight-saving time this weekend means extra time for evening yard work or barbecues, but for some it also means sleepy days at work and even a bit of crankiness. Read More

With dangerous youth gangs becoming firmly entrenched in communities throughout the United States and Central America, a March 11 conference at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University will bring together leading experts to share solutions to the alarming problem. Read More

Exploding stars and black holes. Colliding galaxies and dark matter. Dark energy and cosmic inflation. The universe that modern science has revealed is strange and wild and beautiful, but doesn\'t seem particularly hospitable to life or very comprehensible. Read More

Gifted black students often underachieve in school because of efforts to "act black," new research has found, offering insights into the achievement gap between black and white students in the United States and why black students are under-represented in gifted programs. Read More

Variations in a gene involved in blood clotting determine patients\' initial response to the common blood thinner warfarin, researchers at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center have reported. Read More

An op-ed by 91ÌƲ®»¢ sociologist Dan Cornfield criticizing recent actions involving immigrants in Middle Tennessee. Read More

While some Democrats fear that the increasingly negative tone in the protracted battle for the Democratic presidential nomination will hurt the party\'s chances in November, a 91ÌƲ®»¢ University political scientist anticipates just the opposite. Read More

Rising photographer Valerie Taylor\'s first exhibit is about family from the perspective of single parents. Read More