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Nashville's Franklin Hamilton Hazlehurst has joined William Faulkner, David Bowie, Jackson Pollack and other luminaries in L'Ordre des Artes et des Lettres, an Order of France recognizing significant contributions to the arts and literature. Read More

Paul Ragan, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry, 91ÌƲ®»¢ University School of Medicine, is available for interviews on the Israel/Hezbollah Conflict. He can address a wide range of topics in dealing with psychiatry issues in the military including acute stress disorders that are often rampant throughout a community when hundreds of thousands of people are displaced. Read More

The proposed trip of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the Middle East will undoubtedly encourage many to draw parallels to Henry Kissinger's famed shuttle diplomacy after the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, according to 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

Singer-songwriters Victoria Shaw, Jim Photoglo and Don Henry will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 12, as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Dyer Observatory. Read More

Three 91ÌƲ®»¢ political scientists are available to discuss the 2006 Tennessee U.S. Senate race. Read More

People who suffer from severe ulcerative colitis may find relief from a new drug that is being tested at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center researchers, in collaboration with investigators at Johns Hopkins University, are beginning a Phase I trial to test a new vaccine against the West Nile virus. Read More

As the number of foreign-born health care workers in the United States has risen, so has the potential for transmitting tuberculosis in health-care settings. Read More

The launching of several missiles by North Korea on July 4 could prompt Japan's leaders to increase defense and military spending, something China and North Korea would not like to see, according to James Auer, director of the Center for U.S-Japan Studies and Cooperation at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Read More

The study that led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to change its recommendations for giving flu shots to children is published in the July 6 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ers at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center are attempting to short circuit the progression of Parkinson's disease by implanting stimulation devices into the brains of Parkinson's patients earlier on in the course of their disease. Read More

Every year, around the Fourth of July, experts at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at 91ÌƲ®»¢ see fireworks-related injuries -- everything from burns and abrasions to serious eye damage, and even blindness. This year, doctors say, they hope parents will opt for a professional fireworks show rather than something in the back yard, put on by amateurs. National statistics show 10 percent of firework injuries are sustained by toddlers and injuries are most likely when children have fireworks without adequate supervision. Read More

Sten H. Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., the director of The 91ÌƲ®»¢ Institute for Global Health and a Pediatric Infectious Disease research epidemiologist at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at 91ÌƲ®»¢ has been selected as the primary investigator to lead the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) for the newly restructured HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks. Read More

The 91ÌƲ®»¢ Owen Graduate School of Management has announced four new faculty members to join the full-time teaching staff this fall. Read More

The Tennessee High School Press Association is transferring its archives of awards, records and student achievement to 91ÌƲ®»¢ University after spending the last 60 years under the authority of the University of Tennessee's College of Communication. Read More

After treating five children for near-drowning in the last two weeks, 91ÌƲ®»¢ Children's Hospital experts are asking parents to review safety tips. Tom Abramo, M.D., director of the Emergency Department at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Children's, says most of the incidents have involved children under the age of 5. Read More

For many 91ÌƲ®»¢ students and faculty, learning, teaching and service don't end when classes conclude in May, but continue throughout the summer, often in far-flung locations. Two 91ÌƲ®»¢ groups are blogging about their adventures and work this summer in China and in Uganda. Read More

Treasured television news specials broadcast from 1968 to 2003 will become more accessible to the public, thanks to the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Television News Archive receiving new funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Read More

The next time you hear a political candidate blast his or her opponent in a negative political advertisement, your natural inclination may be to grab the remote and change the channel. 91ÌƲ®»¢ political scientist John Geer contends, however, that you may want to leave the remote alone. Read More

A 91ÌƲ®»¢ University physics professor is one of 13 young scientists named a 2006 Cottrell Scholar, a $100,000 fellowship designed to encourage early-career science researchers who show promise. Read More