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Zeinab Yadegari, a Fisk University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, has received $300,000 from The National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency that funds scientific research. Yadegari’s goal is to take a closer look…

Robert Carr, Jr. Ed.D  who has led a 20 year career in education, has been appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs. He will begin at the university on…

Fisk University's historic Erastus Milo Cravath Library will be preserved thanks to a $500,000 grant from the Historically Black Colleges and Universities grant program, which is funded by the Historic…

After a 25-year hiatus, the federally funded TRIO-Upward Bound Program will return to Fisk University. The program will increase the number of low-income, first-generation students in the metro Nashville area…

Fisk University is excited to announce the launch of a new Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program. The four-year curriculum will prepare students for professions in advocacy and allow them…

This past Thursday Dr. Diane Nash ’61, civil rights icon and Fisk alumna, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. Along with 16 other recipients,…

Julius Rosenwald with students during one of his visits to “Rosenwald Schools”. Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library Special Collections, Julius Rosenwald Fund…