Two University Professors Honored
Two University of Tennessee plant pathologists, Robert Trigiano and Mark Windham, are the 2007 recipients of the university’s most prestigious award for entrepreneurship, the Wheeley Award for Technology Transfer.
Two University of Tennessee plant pathologists, Robert Trigiano and Mark Windham, are the 2007 recipients of the university’s most prestigious award for entrepreneurship, the Wheeley Award for Technology Transfer.
This week’s Pre-Game Faculty Showcase at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, highlights the work of Sally Horn, professor of geography.
Jazz musicians from Knoxville, across the country and the world will headline this year’s “Knoxville Jazz for Justice” concert to benefit children in war-torn Northern Uganda.
University of Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl took his basketball team to Europe in August. In the midst of playing games and practicing, the players learned about Pearl’s Jewish faith in a visit to the Terezin Concentration Camp.
In the most recent edition of the Provost’s Forum, Robert Holub addresses changes in the way that general education courses are funded and the move to place the decision-making about the courses that must be filled where it belongs: at the college and department level.
Visiting architect Brian MacKay-Lyons will lecture about the utopian and ethical nature of architecture at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, in the McCarty Auditorium, Room 109, of the Art + Architecture Building at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Two University of Tennessee plant pathologists whose work with disease-resistant dogwood trees has revitalized the state’s nursery industry are the 2007 recipients of the university’s most prestigious award for entrepreneurship.
A $500,000 grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation will fund construction of a new media laboratory for the University of Tennessee’s College of Communication and Information in Knoxville.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is looking for all alumni who served in the U.S. Armed Forces. This year’s Homecoming activities include “Celebrating Our Heroes: Past and Present,” a special reception and dinner for veterans on Friday, Nov. 2, at Calhoun’s on the River.
D. Michael Lindsay, one of the nation’s leading authorities on religion and public leadership, will speak at UT on Oct. 23.
The UT Libraries are marking three anniversaries this year and are inviting students, faculty, staff and the public to a celebration on Oct. 26.
Tremendous growth is under way at UT, and much of it involves state-of-the-art facilities that will further UT’s status as a major research university and driving force in the state’s economy.