KNOXVILLE, Tenn.– The University of Tennessee bestowed its highest student honor on seven seniors Wednesday at the campus Honors Banquet. The Torchbearer award went to Rebecca Loney of Knoxville, Travis Wright of Whitesburg, Tausha Carmack of Bristol, CeCedric Bobo and Jamie Pizzirusso of Memphis, James Kirkland of Jackson, and Andrew Schaeffer of Collierville. Loney, an
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Excellence in teaching and student advising was recognized at UT-Knoxville’s Honors Banquet with the presentation of awards to 17 individuals. Dr. David Etnier, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Dr. Mary Collins Holcomb, associate professor of marketing; Dr. Michael Mullen, associate professor of plant and soil science; and Dr. Gilya Schmidt, associate
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Students, faculty, staff and alumni of UT were recognized Wednesday for the hundreds of hours they give in service to the university. For contributions beyond that required in their jobs, Chancellor Bill Snyder presented Customer Service Awards to Mary Boyd, who is retiring after 38 years in the Career Services and Placement
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Jay S. Burns, honor student and senior class vice president at Greeneville High School, will receive the first Peyton Manning Scholarship at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. The new academic scholarship, a four-year award covering fees and room and board at UT, honors the former Vol quarterback. Manning, who will be watching the
MARTIN, Tenn. — A small, prehistoric clam is the state’s official fossil, thanks to the Tennessee General Assembly and geology students at the University of Tennessee-Martin. At the urging of students in Dr. Michael Gibson’s geology class, the legislature has resolved to designate the clam as the state fossil. Known to researchers as pterotrigonia scrabrotrigonia