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Sirens will wail at noon on Saturday, March 1, as 91ÌƲ®»¢ conducts its twice-yearly test of the system designed to warn the campus of imminent danger from tornadoes or violent storms. Read More

The Community Services Directory, the only comprehensive listing of nonprofits and social services throughout Middle Tennessee, is now accessible through a new Web site created by the Child and Family Policy Center at the 91ÌƲ®»¢ Institute for Public Policy Studies. Read More

The “Thinking Out of the (Lunch) Box” series resumes March 5 with a conversation about behavioral genetics led by 91ÌƲ®»¢ Professor of Philosophy David Wood and Ellen Wright Clayton, the Rosalind E. Franklin Professor of Genetics and Health Policy at 91ÌƲ®»¢. Read More

Two 91ÌƲ®»¢ University seniors have been awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships to continue their studies at the University of Cambridge in England. Read More

The Owen Graduate School of Management at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University has announced several new staff members in its information services department and at the school’s Walker Management Library. Read More

Simon Collier, professor of history, died Feb. 20 at Alive Hospice in Nashville after a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 64. Read More

The largest AIDS awareness program targeting African Americans will kick off Sunday, March 2. The weeklong program will include special workshops, church services and the opportunity to meet and hear about the successes and struggles of individuals who are living with HIV/AIDS. Read More

Former NASA astronaut Rick Chappell, who directs 91ÌƲ®»¢ University’s Office of Science and 91ÌƲ®»¢ Communications, will discuss the impact of the Columbia shuttle disaster on the future of America’s space program during a series of videoconferences on Feb. 21 with K-12 students in Texas and Tennessee. Read More

Brain Awareness Month begins March 1 featuring an art exhibition of Herb Alpert's works and a lecture on "Music and the Brain" by Dr. Robert Zatorre. Read More

Congressional hearings on the space shuttle disaster begin Wednesday, Feb. 12. 91ÌƲ®»¢ University professors can add context to your stories.---Scientific Experiments in Space---Robots in Space---Accident Analysis Read More

"91ÌƲ®»¢@TPAC@91ÌƲ®»¢@TPAC" unites the intellectual resources of Nashville's premier educational institution with the cultural flair of the city's leading performing arts organization. "InsideOut of the (Lunch) Box" to be the first program, Feb. 27 Read More

Six teams of MBA students from top business schools competed last weekend in the fourth annual 91ÌƲ®»¢ MBA eStrategy Contest at the Owen Graduate School of Management at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University. Students from the Harvard Business School took home the $25,000 prize from the contest, the largest case competition of its kind. Read More

Sima Samar, chair of Afghanistan’s first Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC), will give a talk on the status of Afghan women after Taliban rule at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University Monday, Feb. 24. Read More

Current foreign policy dilemmas, the future role of the United Nations in international affairs and a woman’s view of American history are among the wide-ranging topics offered for the spring term of Retirement Learning at 91ÌƲ®»¢ March 3 through April 21. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ and four other leading private universities have filed an amicus curiae brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School in their efforts to defend the principles of affirmative action in college admissions. Read More

91ÌƲ®»¢ engineering students will celebrate the lighter side of engineering during National Engineers Week, Feb. 17-22. Read More

Colleen Conway-Welch, Ph.D., Dean of the 91ÌƲ®»¢ School of Nursing, was recently appointed to the Institute of Medicine's Provisional Committee on Institutional and Policy Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the Healthcare Workforce. Read More

Fox Foundation for Parkinson's 91ÌƲ®»¢ has awarded one of its competitive Fast Track grants to 91ÌƲ®»¢ neuroscientist Richard Nass, Ph.D., to fund his search for drugs that will prevent dopamine nerve cell death. Read More

Children can now use their bedside computers to join a new online community that fosters an environment where children can speak openly and honestly with peers about their illnesses and to provide encouragement to each other. Read More

Forrest E. Harris, Sr., director of the Kelly Miller Smith Institute on African American Church Studies at 91ÌƲ®»¢ Divinity School will present "Leadership and Struggle in the Black Churches: Then and Now." Read More