Parties, parades and plenty of fun: it’s Homecoming time in Tennessee! Smokey’s Bayou Bash festivities begin at 4 p.m. Friday with the Homecoming parade. The centerpiece event, "Celebrating Our Heroes: Past and Present," follows the parade. This reception, honoring all UT alumni who served in the military, begins at 6:30 p.m. at Calhoun’s on the
This week’s Pre-Game Faculty Showcase at UT will feature a lively presentation by Marvelene Moore, professor of music education. Moore will present “A Musical Odyssey: Drumming, Dancing and Singing,” the fifth program in the Showcase series, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3, in the University Center Ballroom before the Homecoming football game against Louisiana-Lafayette.
The Love United Gospel Choir has been serving the UT campus and community by ministering through song for the past 30 years. The choir is celebrating its 30th anniversary during UT’s Homecoming, Nov. 2-4. The theme is “Celebrating the Legacy and Continuing the Vision,” and there are several events for alumni.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, welcomes back alumni for Homecoming this week. This year’s theme for Homecoming is “Smokey’s Bayou Bash,” and fittingly, the Volunteers host Louisiana-Lafayette at 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3.
Visiting architect Patricia Patkau will lecture at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 29, in the McCarty Auditorium, Room 109, of the Art + Architecture Building.
This fall, the School of Journalism and Electronic Media is celebrating a very special milestone: its 60th anniversary. All alumni of the school are invited to attend an anniversary celebration, 3-5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31, in the third-floor lobby of the Communications Building.
Despite a 1998 settlement designed to limit the marketing of smokeless tobacco to youth, tobacco companies are still getting their message out, according to a study led by UT Knoxville advertising professor Margaret Morrison.
Chaz Maviyane-Davies, an internationally renowned graphic designer best known for his posters on human rights, will speak at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, on Nov. 1.
Southern Association for Institutional Research (SAIR) has awarded the UT Office of Institutional Research and Assessment with top honors for its 2006-2007 e-Fact Book. UT won first place for "Best Electronic Fact Book" in front of more than 400 people at the SAIR 2007 Annual Conference awards breakfast held earlier this month.
"Scribes, Scholars and Students," a new UT Libraries Special Collections exhibit, opened recently in Hoskins Library as part of Medieval and Renaissance Semester.
The UT Libraries are marking three anniversaries this year and are inviting students, faculty, staff and the public to a celebration on Oct. 26. "A Remarkable Time: Celebrating the Past, Anticipating the Future" will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Jack E. Reese Galleria of the John C. Hodges Library.
Nationally renowned attorney Michael Tigar — whose clients have included Terry Nichols, Angela Davis and Allen Ginsburg — will give the College of Law Founder’s Lecture on Oct. 31 at UT.