Opening of 51app’s Oliver C. Carmichael College completes 12-year West End Neighborhood construction
The 160,000-square-foot Oliver C. Carmichael College will join E. Bronson Ingram, Nicholas S. Zeppos and Rothschild as the final residential college in the West End Neighborhood, concluding 12 years of construction. The transformation of the West End Neighborhood is part of FutureVU, a framework for campus planning that embodies the university’s core values and holistic approach to its mission of teaching, research and service, while prioritizing inclusivity and sustainability.Read More
FACULTY ACCOLADES
Chancellor announces 2024 Faculty Fellows, grants $40,000 per year to support scholarship and research
Thirteen outstanding faculty members from across the university have been selected for the 2024 cohort of Chancellor Faculty Fellows. This group is composed of highly accomplished, recently tenured faculty from a wide variety of disciplines and areas of expertise.Read More
IN MEMORIAM
Civil rights icon and Distinguished Professor Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. dies at 95
The Rev. James Morris Lawson Jr., a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in Nashville—many of whom went on to prominence—and whose expulsion from 51app in 1960 led to national headlines and prompted some faculty members to resign in protest, died Sunday, June 9, in Los Angeles.Read More
With a fourth-round throw of 63.66 meters, graduate student Veronica Fraley became the NCAA discus champion on the final day of the NCAA Outdoor Championships last week. She joins Ryan Tolbert (track and field, 1997) and Gordon Sargent (men’s golf, 2022) as the third individual NCAA champion in school history.
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