The research of UT Professor Gordon Burghardt will be featured on the Oct. 20 NOVA program on PBS from 8 – 9 p.m. (Comcast channel 2, digital cable channel 15). The show is focused on the entire group of monitor lizards, which includes the largest lizard in the world, the Komodo Dragon. Burghardt is a
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will be hosting a flu clinic to provide immunizations for the H1N1 (swine) flu in the very near future. Both the flu mist nasal spray and the injectible vaccines have been ordered, and we are waiting arrival of our shipment from the Tennessee Department of Health. The flu vaccinations will
The College of Communication and Information at UT Knoxville will receive $3.2 million over five years — the largest grant award the college has ever received — to participate in a National Science Foundation project to help create a data network that will enable earth and environmental scientists worldwide to share and preserve their research.
Nearly 120 contemporary arts scholars from around the world will come to Knoxville next week for the inaugural conference of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, a newly-formed international interdisciplinary academic society. Hosted by UT Knoxville, the conference, “ASAP/1: Arts of the Present,” will be held Oct. 22-25 at the
UT employees who take advantage of State of Tennessee group medical insurance coverage will notice some changes in their premiums in the coming months. At its last meeting, the State Insurance Committee approved both a six percent increase to medical premiums, as well as two medical premium holidays — two months for which no premium