Singer Lily Allen is leading the nominations at this year's MTVU Woodie Awards, receiving two nods.

Hulking security guards standing at the side of New York’s Hunter College lecture hall offered a big hint that the course’s usual professor might be taking the afternoon off.

Melissa Etheridge, Kanye West and Martha Stewart are among the list of stars set to give lectures on college cable network mtvU.

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson tore into organised religion during his lecture at an American university last Monday.