KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– Dr. D.M. “Pete” Gossett, vice president of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture since 1987, announced Friday that he will retire effective June 30, 1998. Gossett, who began his career in the agricultural extension service at North Carolina State University, has been at UT since 1965. “The accomplishments and achievements of the
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– Efforts at ethics reform have been a dismal failure, a University of Tennessee law professor said Friday. “The post-Watergate discussion about ethical reform has really been about image rather than substance,” said Glenn Reynolds, co-author of The Appearance of Impropriety: How Ethics Wars Have Undermined American Government, Business and Society. “We have done
KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– Proper cooking of meat is the best way to prevent illnesses associated with E coli bacteria, a University of Tennessee food scientist said Friday. Dr. Curtis Melton, a food science professor with the UT Agriculture Extension Service, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture is making a mistake in focusing its prevention efforts on