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A new organization with a goal of making healthy food reliably available to all Middle Tennesseans will publicly launch Friday, Feb. 23 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville. The event is free and open to the public. Read More

Anti-poverty expert to get honorary degree on February 23 Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University was welcomed Thursday into the Million Dollar Circle of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, in recognition of generosity during the 2006 United Way campaign. Read More

Professor Yi Cui has gotten recognition - and funding - for his novel idea that could give YouTube a run for its money. Read More

David Williams II of 91ÌƲ®»¢ University has been elected a fellow by the Tennessee Bar Foundation. Read More

Nashville Vice Mayor Howard Gentry Jr. will share stories with middle and high school students across the nation about growing up in a segregated Nashville when he is a presenter for the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Virtual School on Feb. 15. "Breaking the Color Barrier" will be a step back in time to a very different life for African-Americans in the 1950s and even ‘60s, according to Patsy Partin, director of the Virtual School. Read More

A new album of uplifting music from Uganda compiled by a 91ÌƲ®»¢ University ethnomusicologist is being released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as part of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University Peabody College of education and human development experts are available to discuss various aspects of No Child Left Behind as Congress considers its reauthorization in 2007. Read More

A group of graduates from the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Owen Graduate School of Management, who now work in the health care industry, has created an association to advance Owen‘s successful health care MBA program. Read More

Operating without direct funding, Tennessee‘s trauma center network is at a critical crossroads, said health professionals today, who launched a statewide education campaign aimed at raising the profile and sounding the alarm bells regarding the system. Read More

Four Tennessee schools and one community outreach program have each won a $10,000 grant from the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Center for Child and Family Policy to help close the achievement gap between white and black and Latino students. Read More

Community college presidents from across Tennessee will convene at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Feb. 13 to discuss service learning. The event will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. at the First Amendment Center, 1207 18th Ave. South. It is closed to the public. Media are welcome to attend. Read More

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for playing Meadow Soprano on HBO‘s Emmy-award winning drama The Sopranos, has cancelled her speaking engagement at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University on Thursday, Feb. 15. Read More

Arnold W. Strauss, M.D., chair of the Department of Pediatrics and medical director of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children‘s Hospital at 91ÌƲ®»¢, is leaving to become chief medical officer and director of the Children‘s 91ÌƲ®»¢ Foundation at Cincinnati Children‘s Hospital Medical Center in Ohio. Read More

Oakley Ray, who taught at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University for more than 30 years and wrote both an enduring textbook and self-help books for the general public, died Feb. 7. He was 76. Read More

Starting Feb. 15 91ÌƲ®»¢ professors will offer informed perspective on the acclaimed exhibition Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ sophomores Henry Manice and Wil Keenan‘s two-month trip to Uganda last summer changed lives — theirs and the lives of many Ugandan artisans and children. Read More

Afeni Shakur, former member of the Black Panther Party, community outreach activist and mother of slain rap artist Tupac Shakur, is the keynote speaker during a series of events commemorating Black History Month at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Read More

Doing spiritually inspired work for the Lord usually begins with the tricky job of persuading someone to donate cold hard cash to the cause. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ers will present papers on a series of topics including the impact of agro-terrorism; the role of international agreements in achieving food security; what tragedy teaches us about 100-year-old food laws; food-borne infections and the global food supply and regulating food aid in disasters. Read More