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Historian Wilson Miscamble will explore Harry Truman's sudden transition to the presidency when Franklin Roosevelt died and its true impact on the outbreak of the Cold War in a ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ public lecture on March 26. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center (VUMC) will participate in a large-scale national clinical trial to learn if the nutritional supplement creatine can slow the progression of Parkinson's disease. Read More

Watch live streaming video of former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. delivering the third of the three 2007 Impact lectures at 7:30 p.m. March 21. Read More

Watch video of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivering the second of the three 2007 Impact lectures March 20 at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ is recruiting local families to take part in a study that is examining ways to help families cope with depression. The study, named the Raising Healthy Children Project, is part of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded study designed to decrease depression among children. Read More

Billy G. Hudson, Ph.D., wants to bring back the one-room schoolhouse. Read More

"It's time to regulate the airline industry; customers need a passengers' bill of rights." A recent massive snowstorm grounded and delayed hundreds of flights across the country. While many airlines found successful ways to handle the delays, some Jet Blue customers were trapped on planes for more than nine hours, with overflowing toilets. Other passengers were forced to camp out for days at airports, with no clear solution from Jet Blue. Airline expert Michael LaprÈ believes this latest evidence of "massive miscalculations from the airlines," shows that it is time for regulation. Read More

Fifty years ago, two men took a bold step for themselves and for the future of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School. Shortly after the landmark decision, Brown v. Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, and after strong encouragement from the law faculty, ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School broke the color barrier and became the first privately funded law school in the South to admit African American students. Read More

More than 4 billion people around the world are considered poor, earning an average of $2 a day. A highly motivated group of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ students want to change that statistic and is inviting fellow students to come together to share ideas. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center has been recognized for the eighth consecutive year as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, in a study by Solucient Institute. Read More

Patricia Pierce, who has been in a leadership role with ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´'s Opportunity Development Center almost from its inception, will retire April 30. Read More

A distinguished German scholar who has played an important role in contemporary debates about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary studies will speak at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ on March 27. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ will celebrate the establishment of the James M. Lawson Jr. Chair at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ with a symposium on Lawson's legacy and an inaugural lecture by the first holder of the Lawson Chair. Read More

Journalist Lou Dobbs, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. will deliver public lectures at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ March 19-21 as part of the university's annual Impact Symposium. Read More

Anja Becker, a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Center for the Americas at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, will deliver the Founders Day Lecture at 4 p.m. March 15 in the Bennett-Miller Room at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School. Becker's lecture is titled "As a Man Thinketh in His Heart So He Is: The Educational Values of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Chancellor James H. Kirkland (1893-1937) as Expressed in His Letters and Speeches." A scholar with the German Academic Exchange Service, Becker has researched the history of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, Kirkland and the influence of German educators on education in the South. Members of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ community and the public are invited to attend. Read More

Last week's 107.5 River of Hope Radiothon was the most successful radio-based fund-raiser in the history of ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Children's Hospital. Read More

Ray Suarez, a senior correspondent for The NewsHour on PBS and author of a book about the relationship between religion and politics in America, will speak at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ on "The Politics of Faith in America." Read More

Qubad Talabany, son of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and representative to the United States for the Kurdistan Regional Government, will be available to answer media questions, Wednesday, March 14, at 3:15 p.m. prior to his lecture at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´. Read More

In the continuing battles between creationists and evolutionists, DNA expert Sean Carroll is strengthening the case that evolution is a natural law, as unassailable as the theory of gravity. Carroll will speak Thursday, March 29, at Ingram Hall on the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ campus. Read More

An assistant professor of physics at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ has won a $45,000 research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation aimed at encouraging promising young scholars. Read More