University of Memphis News

LaForrest Church, left, won the state title in the 800 last year for South Kitsap.

This week the NCAA Legislative Council approved a few new rules that could be made final when the Division I board of directors meets later this month, and one of them caught my eye.

William B. "Jake" Lockert announces his candidacy for re-election to the office of District Public Defender in the Aug. 7 Stewart and Houston County general elections.

James F. Williamson, FAIA, a professor in the department of architecture at the University of Memphis, has received the 2014 American Institute of Architects' Edward S. Frey Award for his contributions to religious architecture and support of the allied arts.

During a faculty meeting Thursday morning at Lakeland Elementary School, Supt. Ted Horrell named longtime assistant principal Joretha Lockhart as the school's next principal.

The Tennessee Board of Regents is still weighing how much it will need to raise tuition at its universities to compensate for a revised state budget that has pulled new funding for higher education.

When Oprah Winfrey served on a Chicago jury in 2004, she couldn't go to the bathroom attached to the jury room unless her fellow jurors sang to drown out the noise.

Melrose junior athlete Tony Pollard committed to the University of Memphis Wednesday morning, becoming the Tigers' first verbal pledge of the 2015 class, according to a source.

The University of Memphis Lambuth Campus held a campus and community planning meeting Tuesday night in which the planning group presented some ideas for the future of the Lambuth campus.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks' passing. He was a staple within the Memphis community and strong advocate for racial, social, and economic justice.

Tuition fees could soon be slashed for some out of state students looking to enroll at the University of Memphis.

For your information: MNT accounts were not affected by the recent Heartbleed bug, as we were not running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL.

Deborah Watlington and Renee Murley, two faculty members at the University of Memphis Lambuth Campus, did a study on the impact iPads would have on lesson design in education courses.

In a proposal submitted to the Tennessee Board of Regents late last week, the University of Memphis requested fee reductions of 43 percent for full-time undergraduate students from within a 250-mile radius of Memphis and 13.7 percent reduction for students outside of a 250-mile radius of Memphis.

One of the defining features of a traditional newspaper is the content bundle, a broad selection of topics and stories meant to appeal to the widest group of readers possible.

On an office door at 442-B E. Main St. in Clayton, white letters spell "The Ford Firm, PLLC." That's where attorney David Ford handles dozens of cases each month in real estate, election law and small- business matters.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Youth Empowerment Through Arts and Humanities 4/4-4/20/2014 It seems especially fitting that the first rock opera, created as a concept album at the end of the turbulent '60s, should have at its center a social and political rebel.

The development of robust new liver and fat cell models that report circadian clock function have been developed by scientists.

Archaeologists from the University of Memphis dated some of the material to 500 years before Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto came into the area in the 16th century.

Saturday marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Pillow - a battle that, for some, now rages on in a war of words.