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Major companies across the country are turning to the Accelerator-91ÌƲ®»¢ Summer Business Institute to get fresh ideas on how to raise their products and programs to a new level. Read More

The Webby Awards, the leading international honor for the Web, today recognized 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's Exploration Web site as an official honoree, a distinction that recognizes work exhibiting remarkable achievement. The online research magazine is produced by 91ÌƲ®»¢'s Office of Science & 91ÌƲ®»¢ Communications. Read More

It is no surprise that Fred Thompson has jumped into third place nationally among GOP presidential contenders, even without declaring his candidacy, said 91ÌƲ®»¢ University political scientist John Geer. Read More

Atheism is a religion and it is dominating public schools, says a British philosopher who will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Roger Scruton will be the fourth and last speaker in the "Democracy and Moral Conviction" lecture series. Read More

In hip hop music and videos, young black women are consistently portrayed as sexually insatiable vixens willing to debase themselves for the privilege of even the shortest ride on the music industry party train. Read More

In this day and age women are CEO's, senators, construction workers, stock brokers, economists and more. Women have made their way into every aspect of the workforce and comprise 46 percent of employees. Yet women consistently earn less than men. Read More

Education experts from 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's Peabody College of education and human development will be presenting their latest research April 9-13, 2007, in Chicago at the American Educational 91ÌƲ®»¢ Association's annual conference. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ engineers have won an award from Microsoft Corp. to develop a real-time, online, detailed and accurate picture of air quality in large metropolitan areas like Nashville. The mobile air quality monitoring system will make it possible to monitor air quality more accurately than the current system of fixed stations performing low-resolution sampling by including car-mounted sensors that measure, process and report emission levels. Read More

Routine infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) has caused a 39 percent fall in all-cause pneumonia hospital admission rates for American children under 2, according to an article published in this week's edition of The Lancet. Read More

The results of the latest and most comprehensive study of public opinion in the Americas concludes that Latin America is drifting toward the political left and experiencing a rise in populism. Read More

Some search for God in the contemplative routine of a monastery. Bonnie Miller-McLemore found the divine in piles of laundry needing folding, the sounds of her sons carousing in a playground and "the stench of a dirty diaper, wiping the bottom of a child." Read More

James McPherson, a noted American Civil War historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, will deliver a public lecture at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University on May 2. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University will host a panel discussion, "Keeping Our Promise: HIV/AIDS Ministry and the Black Church" on April 10, from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. in room G-23 at the Divinity School. Read More

The first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University this month. Read More

Civil rights leader and non-violent activist the Rev. James Lawson will speak at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University this month as part of the University Seminar in Religion and Culture. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University's lifelong learning opportunities for older adults will expand and flourish thanks to a $100,000 grant from The Bernard Osher Foundation. Read More

School in the summer might not sound good to most kids, but what if that school is one of the nation's top universities, the classes explorations of cutting-edge science, art, law, music and more, and the students some of the brightest around? Summer school suddenly sounds a lot better. Read More

On Feb. 28, 2007, 91ÌƲ®»¢ University and Laborers International Union of North America, Local 386, which represents approximately 600 employees in the custodial, grounds, food service and skilled crafts categories, reached an agreement on a new three-year contract. The contract was ratified by the union membership March 2, 2007. Read More

Raising hefty sums of cash early in the 2008 presidential campaign puts candidates in the driver's seat for competing successfully in the primaries, according to 91ÌƲ®»¢ Professor of Political Science John Geer. Read More

Three 91ÌƲ®»¢ University students have been awarded 2007 Goldwater Scholarships, earning up to $7,500 a year to pursue the study of mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering. Read More