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Singer-songwriters Tony Mullins, Kent Blazy and Monty Holmes will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, July 8, at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Dyer Observatory as part of the Bluebird on the Mountain concert series. Read More

Children who stutter often face greater challenges managing their behavior and emotions than other children, researchers have found, offering new insight into how to help these children in a more holistic way. Read More

The state of Tennessee has recognized 91ÌƲ®»¢ University for its leadership and innovation in protecting the environment with the 2006 Governor's Environmental Stewardship Award in Pollution Prevention. Read More

President George W. Bush announced June 15 that he will nominate Camilla P. Benbow to the National Science Board, an independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation. Benbow is Patricia and Rodes Hart Dean of Education and Human Development at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's Peabody College. Read More

President George W. Bush recently announced his intention to nominate 91ÌƲ®»¢ University School of Nursing Dean Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., as a member of the Board of Regents of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Read More

The 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Police Department has announced the following promotions and staff changes effective July 1. Read More

Internationally renowned derivative securities expert Robert E. Whaley has been named the Valere Blair Potter Professor of Management at the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Owen Graduate School of Management. Whaley, who began his academic career at the Owen School 28 years ago, most recently was the T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, where he had been on faculty since 1986. Read More

The district attorney prosecuting the rape case against three of Duke University's lacrosse players received significant support from both black and white voters in the recent Durham primary, according to a voting analysis by 91ÌƲ®»¢ University political scientist Christian Grose. Read More

With a thousand distractions vying for your attention, how do you stay focused? Just who, or rather what, is in charge of your brain? New research into how the brain manages information has found that an area previously thought to be just an information collector in fact plays the role of an executiveóhelping to filter out extraneous information to help you stay focused. The findings offer potential insights into helping people with attention disorders. Read More

The Food and Drug Administration is examining study data from 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Medical Center researchers, published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, to determine if new warnings should be placed on common blood pressure medications indicating an increased risk of birth defects for babies whose mothers take these medications during the first trimester of pregnancy. Read More

When 24-year-old Charles Dougherty checks into 91ÌƲ®»¢-Ingram Cancer Center tomorrow, he'll be preparing for a treatment that has never been performed before in an adult patient in Nashville, and will be only the second case in Tennessee history. Read More

Lou H. Silberman, an internationally recognized scholar of the Hebrew Bible and Judaic studies and longtime campus leader at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, died June 6 in Tucson, Ariz. He was 91. Read More

Mike Newton, acting associate clinical professor of law at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University, is an expert on war crimes and international criminal law. 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz says that one of the real dangers about the Haditha investigation is that the truth about the incident could become secondary to opposing political agendas. Read More

Robyn Minton, director of the YWCA's Domestic Violence Services program, has been named the first recipient of tuition sponsorship to the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Owen Graduate School of Management Executive MBA (EMBA) program under the school's partnership with the Center for Nonprofit Management. The sponsorship, which will pay Minton's tuition for the 21-month program, is valued at about $73,000. Read More

Admission will be free to attend faculty and ensemble concerts at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's Blair School of Music starting with the fall 2006 semester, announced Dean Mark Wait. Read More

About 20 91ÌƲ®»¢ University students will work with health organizations in Uganda this summer as part of that country's response to HIV/AIDS. Read More

The possibility that Iraqi civilians were massacred at Haditha has brought back painful memories for many about the infamous My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, according to 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Professor of History Thomas Alan Schwartz. Read More

Rich Milner, assistant professor of education at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University's Peabody College of education and human development, has been honored with an Early Career Contribution Award from the American Educational 91ÌƲ®»¢ Association. The award, presented annually by the association's Committee on Scholars of Color in Education, recognizes a scholar who is within the first decade of his or her career following receipt of the doctoral degree. Read More

A new university-wide initiative is urging tourists and Middle Tennessee residents alike to Visit 91ÌƲ®»¢. Read More

The first buildings completed as part of the Commons, which will serve as the home for all first-year students at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University beginning in 2008, have been named for a woman who played an integral role in 91ÌƲ®»¢'s very existence and a man whose medical discoveries earned him a Nobel Prize. Read More