KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Notable women at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville will be permanently honored with a plaque unveiled Thursday at the Carolyn P. Brown University Center. The award is named for Angie Warren Perkins, UT-Knoxville’s first dean of women (1889-1900), a position she held without pay, UTK Chancellor Bill Snyder said. Perkins is also the
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Routine testing for E. coli bacteria, rather than for salmonella, is the best way to ensure a safe meat supply, a University of Tennessee food scientist said Thursday. Dr. Curtis Melton said the change in meat-testing methods being considered by the U.S. Agriculture Department will not weaken its plan to improve the
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An earthen-dam break sending damaging flood waters through a small New Hampshire town demonstrates the need for reinspection of private dams, a University of Tennessee civil engineer said Wednesday. The town of Alton, N.H., is cleaning up from the Wednesday flood which damaged some homes and many vehicles, tore up a quarter-mile