Elizabeth Strand, clinical associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, is quoted in this WBIR story about an East Tennessee animal cruelty case. The college’s veterinary social work program does important work in examining the link between animal cruelty and juvenile delinquency.
Professor and author Donna Freitas, one of the country’s leading scholars of religion and youth culture, will share her views on spirituality and sexuality on college campuses at UT Knoxville on Wednesday, Oct. 21. Freitas will discuss her latest nonfiction book, “Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance and Religion on America’s College Campuses,”
Seasonal cuisine and artwork will be the design of the Ready for the World Café the week of Oct. 19 at UT Knoxville. The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center.
As a follow-up to its recent program on the Electoral College, the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at UT Knoxville will present a lecture by a UT alumnus who is serving on a national committee looking at the problem of “renegade presidential electors.” Jess O. Hale Jr., a senior legislative attorney with