University of Memphis

In today's increasingly crowded marketplace, successful small business owners recognize that creativity is paramount in besting their competitors and maintaining a vibrant brand. Customer engagement is key. And that will be the focus of the...

One could almost say that professor Brandon Goff of Francis Marion University just moonlights as a teacher because that's such a small part of what defines him. The 39-year-old Goff, who teaches music, specifically in the music industry discipline at...

She called him her best friend. He called her "daddy's little girl." He was the last person she expected to rape her. Harlee Lowder's parents were getting a divorce. She was visiting her dad, a Navy veteran, in Oklahoma for the summer and had been there...

athryn Downing says creating swipes of black war paint beneath her eyes is something she started last season in an attempt to intimidate opposing batters. When Downing wore the war paint, she noticed that the wins came as she pitched for the Bowling...

On Sunday afternoon, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenged the University of Memphis' newest crop of lawyers to use their law degrees to fight corporate corruption and protect one of the world's most vulnerable entities: the environment. The 122 graduates of...

Have you ever enjoyed the air-conditioned comfort of The Peabody? If so, Charles Yarrington Bancroft was among the people who deserved your thanks. A Memphis businessman whose Bancroft Leasing company has provided equipment for luxury hotels and...

Dr. Richard Janikowski, the criminologist who has lived and worked in Memphis for more than a quarter of a century, recently bought a home security system for the first time. It was for his new home in the North Carolina mountains, where he and his...

Political scientists and operatives, including top Democrats, say that Gov. Bill Haslam's reputation of integrity is mostly shielding him -- for now, at least -- from the tarnish that allegations from a federal investigation has placed on his family...

The jury was out for more than three months on what the new Republican supermajority in the Tennessee legislature would do with its unchecked power. The majorities elected last November were so big there would be a quorum to pass laws and change rules...

CBS Sports Network college basketball insider Jon Rothstein says the University of Memphis picked up an impact player for 2013-14 on Tuesday in George Washington senior forward David Pellom. An athletic 6-8, 220-pound forward who sat out the 2012-13...

Entrepreneurship goes global this week, with at least three programs to connect business professionals with global commerce markets. In late 2011, Gov. Bill Haslam and Commissioner Bill Hagerty of the state Dept. of Economic and Community Development...

Tennesseans will pay less tax on food, investment income and inheritance, worry a little less about police drones surveilling their backyards, send their children to new municipal school systems and keep their guns in their cars on most parking lots....