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The Switch Your Thinking energy-saving effort at UT Knoxville is halfway to its goal of a 10 percent reduction in energy use compared to last year. As of March 1, the campus has used 5 percent less energy this fiscal year than last, resulting in a savings of $559,000. The savings are a result of
John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, will be at UT Knoxville on Wednesday, March 25, to discuss the U.S. and rising global powers. The free lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in the Great Room of the International House. Mearsheimer’s lecture is part of the
Tennessee and Southern cuisine will highlight the menu the week of March 23 at the Ready for the World Café. The menu includes shrimp and Southern cheese grits; Smokey Mountain seared trout; Swiss steak with caramelized peppers; Tennessee cordon bleu; fried green tomatoes; squash casserole; country green beans; and au gratin potatoes.
Howard Hall, a nuclear chemist and expert in preventing and responding to nuclear terrorism, has been named as the third UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair. Hall, currently the radiological detection and response program leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will hold appointments in the UT Knoxville nuclear engineering department and the global nuclear security division at ORNL.
Tennessee and Southern cuisine will highlight the menu the week of March 23 at the Ready for the World Café. The Ready for the World Café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center. Diners pay $11 for the
Robert Cargile has joined the University of Tennessee’s National Defense Business Institute (NDBI) as deputy director of contracts management. Cargile joins the institute from UT Knoxville’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, where he served as the research services coordinator. Prior to that, he was assistant director of UT Knoxville’s Office of Research.
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of “Tent City” — one of the first heroic struggles for voting rights in the rural South — with a Voting Rights Symposium March 31 and April 1. The symposium, which is free and open
Scott Studham has been named Chief Information Officer for the University of Tennessee, effective immediately, Executive Vice President David Millhorn announced.
Tom Siegfried, award-winning science writer and new editor-in-chief of Science News magazine, will give UT Knoxville’s annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31 in the University Center Shiloh Room. Siegfried will speak on “Odds Are, It’s Wrong — The Misuse of Math in Science, Medicine and the Media.” The
Darrin Hulsey, an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, co-authored a study on dental genes in members of the Cichlidae family of fish that, 500 million years ago, may have provided the blueprint for all teeth in vertebrates today. QUEST, UT Knoxville’s comprehensive research initiative, has selected Hulsey as its Scholar
The second-ranked Tennessee Lady Volunteers traveled deep into the heart of Texas and demonstrated they have enough heart of their own to win a national championship on the home turf of the nation’s No. 1 team, capturing their second NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championship trophy in the past five seasons Saturday at Texas A&M’s