MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A national health care workforce policy would result in a better distribution of physicians to areas where they are needed, the University of Tennessee’s dean of medicine said Wednesday. “This nation has not come to grips with the idea that it needs a national health-care workforce policy,” Dr. Robert Summitt said. “Until
TULLAHOMA, Tenn. — The estate of the late newspaper publisher Morris Simon has given the University of Tennessee Space Institute $25,000 for a student fellowship endowment. At a 1993 banquet in Simon’s honor, UTSI faculty members pledged more than $20,000 to establish the Morris Simon Fellowship Endowment Fund. Moved by the gesture, Simon the next
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The children of University of Tennessee law graduate Thomas Ryan Prewitt Sr. of Memphis have honored their father with a pledge of $100,000 to the College of Law at UT-Knoxville. The gift, part of UT’s $250 million 21st Century Campaign, makes Prewitt a founder of the college’s new Center for Advocacy, which will