The Board of Directors of Leadership Knoxville, Inc., is accepting nominations for its 2011 class, which will run from August 2010 – June 2011. Frank Rothermel, President of Denark Construction and Leadership Knoxville Board member, will chair the selection committee. Deadline for submission is Friday, Feb. 26.
This News Sentinel article reports on the work of UT College of Veterinary Medicine staffers who performed surgery on a 25-year-old female chimpanzee at the Knoxville Zoo to stabilize four broken metacarpal bones in her hand.
An anonymous donor has made a $1 million challenge to raise money to provide financial assistance to students enrolled in the teacher internship program at UT Knoxville. The donor, a longtime supporter of the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences, has offered to give $1 million in memory of the late J. Clayton Arnold
Each year, the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet celebrates excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It is a time to honor academic and service achievements that represent the best of the university. This year’s banquet will be held on Monday, April 19, 2010, and nominations are currently being accepted.
The College of Architecture and Design kicks off its newest lecture series, Designing Environments for Health, Feb. 3. The semester-long lecture series will explore the connection between health and the built environment in the design of health-related facilities and the design of our communities.