Five students will graduate Friday, with more than 225 hours of community service each, earning the gold service medallion awarded by the Jones Center for Leadership and Service.
Conny Sidi Kazungu remembers hearing her dad’s voice on the other end of the phone and exhaling. Only minutes earlier, she had heard the blast from her home. Suicide bombers in trucks parked outside the US Embassy in Nairobi had exploded, killing more than 200 people.
Sales of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, T-shirt designed by a fourth-grade boy in Florida raised $952,101 for STOMP Out Bullying. The young fan created the homemade shirt to show his love for the Volunteers. UT’s VolShop offered to print the boy’s design for him as a gesture of appreciation.
On November 15, the night before Garth Brooks’s sold-out concert inside Neyland Stadium, Ashley Humphrey stood a few feet away from the singer during his sound check, waiting to ask for a favor. “Garth, will you sign my graduation cap?” she shouted during a pause in the music.
From his first week on campus four years ago, Mustafa Ali-Smith had his mind set. He would become the first person in his family to graduate from college. But as important as succeeding academically was to him, he knew he wanted to do more, too.
Kylie Hubbard is ready for her next story. Hubbard is concluding her third semester as editor-in-chief of UT’s independent student newspaper, the Daily Beacon. She graduates this month with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and electronic media.
UT senior Travis Bryan, a student veteran, dreams about graduating in December and walking into his future.
Bloomberg using Trump's playbook, but strategy faces big hurdles
Source: The Washington Times
CEO of Knoxville-based JTV says additional tariffs would have 'draconian' impact on company
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
National Park Service takes unprecedented step in Smoky Mountains to save endangered bats
Source: Knoxville News Sentinel
Melanin-producing Streptomyces Are More Likely to Colonize Plants
Source: Plant Management Network
