KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A national study shows that most states are sitting on huge budget surpluses, but not Tennessee, a University of Tennessee economist said Friday. A study by the National Conference of State Legislatures says states are holding $33.4 billion in surplus dollars in 1998-99 fiscal budgets, the largest in 20 years. Twenty states
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A University of Tennessee scientist’s plan teaming youths, retirees and college professors to monitor pollution was a finalist in an international competition seeking practical solutions to environmental problems. The proposal by Dr. Jack Barkenbus, director of UT’s Energy, Environment and Resources Center, was among the top three of 250 submitted in a
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A disappointed geologist will return to the University of Tennessee-Knoxville without the dramatic images he had hoped for after the failure of a NASA spacecraft to photograph asteroid 9969 Braille. Dr. Dan Britt, the newest member of UT’s Planetary Geosciences Institute, was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday,