Fisk University News

People like good news, especially at this time of the year. That's why it was exciting to hear recently that Nashville's Fisk University had received reaccreditation for another 10 years by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, December 18, 2009 Source: Vanderbilt University - Comments Vanderbilt University Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Kelly Holley-Bockelmann has been awarded the National Science Foundation's largest ever Faculty Early Career Development grant.

I am scared. It is exactly nine days until graduation, and I refuse to repeat the same mistakes I did when I graduated from high school.

Fisk University is celebrating its reaccreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

One of the blessings of Christmas is the wonderful music associated with this festive season.

The Nashville Branch of the NAACP along with the Nashville Bar Association will hold a legal clinic, 'Knowing Your Rights in a Traffic Stop,' from 9 a.m. to noon today at Fisk University's Park Johnson Hall.

The tin roof of the little red schoolhouse called Sugar Hill is caving in. The mossy pillars beneath it are starting to buckle.

The renovation of Hulda Margaret Lyttle Hall will help Meharry Medical College logistically, but what's better is it will bring the life back to that part of the campus.

Pastor Dorsey and Mrs. Glad Robinson of Murfreesboro announce the engagement of their daughter, Crystal Dawn Robinson, to Andrae Phillip Crismon.

Four decades ago, the city carved a swath of interstate across Jefferson Street, the symbolic center of African-American life in Nashville.

Fisk University is getting a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to assist graduate students in getting degrees in fields where African Americans are underrepresented.

The Board of Trustees of the DuSable Museum of African American History has announced the appointment of Carol L. Adams, PhD as the Chief Executive Officer of the Museum.

The 1920s was an era of rapid growth for South Bend's black population, with the city's factories booming and the Great Migration drawing thousands of blacks from the rural South.

A 2001 Scene article by Bill Carey provides some interesting historical context for Cheatham Place, which sits near Werthan Lofts and Salemtown: In 1937, Congress passed a national housing act, authorizing millions of federal dollars for public housing projects across the country.

Mayor Karl Dean and former Tennessee Titan Eddie George unveiled Thursday designs and a master plan for the new "Gateway to Heritage" streetscape improvement project in Nashvillle's historic Jefferson Street district.

Former Tennessee Titan Eddie George is planning a major overhaul of Nashville's historically black Jefferson Street district.

In a way, coming to Fisk University to speak Thursday during a NAACP 100th anniversary fundraiser was like a homecoming, the association's chairman said.

A photosensitized high-surface area transparent electrode has been employed to increase the short circuit current of a photovoltaic device with a blend of poly and -phenyl C61 butyric acid methyl ester as the active layer.

Main American anthropologist and educator ne Betsch born Oct. 19, 1936, Jacksonville, Fla., U.S. anthropologist and educator who was the first African American woman president of Spelman College .

For the preservationists, Fisk University is perfect makeover material - an aging beauty in need of a bit of reconstructive work.