Two alumni of the College of Business Administration at UT Knoxville and a UT trustee are being inducted into the 2010 Junior Achievement of East Tennessee’s Business Hall of Fame. Alumnus William “Billy” Carroll Jr., president and CEO of SmartBank; alumnus Tim Williams, co-founder and CEO of 21st Mortgage Corporation; and UT trustee Bill Carroll
UT Knoxville will close Estabrook Drive between Neyland Stadium and Cumberland Avenue on Saturday, April 10, and Sunday, April 11, as part of the construction of the Min Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building. Estabrook Drive is expected to reopen on Monday, April 12. Construction work on a section of Andy Holt Avenue has
Award-winning singer and songwriter Martina McBride, along with her manager and husband, John McBride, and an entourage of interactive marketing experts recently visited UT Knoxville as guest lecturers. Their visit kicked off an applied-learning project for an MBA marketing class, which is producing a social media plan for McBride’s newest CD as part of its
UT Knoxville will host the Society of Human Resource Management Southeast Regional Student Conference and the “Jeopardy”-style Human Resources Games on Friday and Saturday. The two-day event begins at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 9, in the James A. Haslam II Business Building. All are invited to watch students from more than 25 colleges and
In this Washington Times story about the fairness and legality of organizations using interns, labor law blogger Jeffrey Hirsch, associate professor in the UT Knoxville College of Law,explains how the bad economy may be encouraging the trend of using interns and how this trend could be undermining the purpose of wage laws.
UT’s Department of Military Science-Army ROTC will host the third annual Mountain Man Memorial March on April 17 in Gatlinburg. Preliminary events begin on April 16. The events are a tribute which honors fallen American heroes, their families and veterans.