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Doctors at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Children's Hospital have found a whole new use for the popular erectile dysfunction drug Viagra. Sildenafil, as it is called by its more anonymous chemical name, may have the power to save babies. Read More

National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice will be the guest speaker at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´'s inaugural Senior Class Day on Thursday, May 13, at 10 a.m. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Professor of Political Science John Geer will become editor of The Journal of Politics, consistently ranked as one of the nation's most influential political science journals, in January 2005. The scholarly journal, which is published quarterly by the Southern Political Science Association, will be housed within the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Department of Political Science for four years. Read More

Springtime means longer days, warmer weather and the return of outdoor community gatherings, and ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´'s Community Concert Band plans to usher in the season with an evening of free music on Tuesday, April 13. Read More

Jay Clayton, chair of the Department of English at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´, has been appointed to an endowed chair as a William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English. Read More

By all accounts, Don Matl was not expected to survive his second bout with melanoma in 1998. He was given less than a 5 percent chance. But he lived.Another recurrence in 2001 yielded a similar inference ó but again he persevered. Now Matl knows why he beat the odds. Read More

Gerry G. Hull, president and chief executive officer of Automated Logic Corporation, has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ School of Engineering. Read More

Do dyslexia, ADHD and speech and language disorders occur jointly in some children because of a shared genetic cause? Bruce Pennington, Ph.D., a world-renowned geneticist, will address this question in a lecture in the series on development and developmental disabilities on Thursday, April 8, at 4 p.m. at the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Read More

Members of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ and Nashville communities came together March 28 to honor the life and work of Rabbi Randall Falk at an event hosted by the University's Divinity School. Read More

Vaccines, drugs, diagnostic devices and medical surveillance are all crucial tools in the fight against bioterrorism and emerging infectious disease, but experts say they are not enough, and Congress has asked a group of national experts in the field, which includes the National Center for Emergency Preparedness (NCEP), housed at the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ School of Nursing, to target new ways to increase the level of personnel preparedness. Read More

Nurses from foreign countries that have relocated to the Nashville area and want to work as nurses in the United States will get some help thanks to a new course created by the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ School of Nursing, in partnership with the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ English Language Center. Read More

The ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Vision Research Center (VVRC) has been awarded a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Eye Institute to support vision and eye research. The grant was awarded through a competitive renewal process. The previous five-year grant was for $1.9 million. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´'s Peabody College of Education and Human Development has again been ranked 4th in the nation among education schools by U.S. News and World Report in its annual ranking of the leading graduate and professional schools. The college's Special Education program was named No. 1 for the second year in a row. Read More

Women and teen-age girls have yet one more reason to become more physically active ñ reduction of their risk of developing the most common gynecologic malignancy, endometrial cancer, researchers at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center and its ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´-Ingram Cancer Center report. Read More

Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell has been named the 2004 Distinguished Alumnus of the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Law School, and Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr., senior U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, will be given the Law School's Distinguished Service Award. Read More

Owen Graduate School of Management student John Owens was named the 2004 winner of the Graduate Business Foundation Student Leadership Award at the foundation's annual conference last weekend in Ann Arbor, Mich. Read More

ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Medical Center will expand its LifeFlight helicopter air ambulance program by adding a base in Lebanon, Tennessee, and purchasing three new state-of-the-art helicopters at a cost of $5.4 million each. Read More

Each member of a theatrical, bohemian family invites a guest for a blissful weekend in the English countryside, a ripe setting for the urbane wit of Noel Coward in his 1925 classic "Hay Fever." Read More

Soccer World sporting goods specialty shop has chosen ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Children's Hospital as a beneficiary of Soccer World Super Clasico (SWSC), the first major international soccer match to be held in Tennessee. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ Children's CEO, Jim Shmerling, joined representatives of Soccer World, the two participants, the LA Galaxy and the UAG Tecos, and Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell Tuesday at the Coliseum to make the announcement. Read More

The Sweet 16 setting moves to Norman, Okla., for the ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ women's team. ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ students will gather on campus Sunday to see if the women's basketball team can keep the winning streak going against No. 6 seed Stanford. Read More