Opera music, theater and museum tours and prehistoric art are just a few of the cultural activities planned for this year’s Alumni Summer College at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The program will focus on visual and performing arts and expose participants to a wide range of Tennessee experiences. Participants do not have to be
Brian Wirth, an authority in the ways materials behave in extreme environments, has been named the ninth University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair. Wirth is currently an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 2002 following several years as a materials scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Wirth
A linguist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will convene a historic gathering of Native American sign language users this summer on the northern Great Plains. Jeffrey Davis, an associate professor in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education, is identifying Plains Indian sign talkers who use the elaborate language so that it
The newest issue of Employee and Organizational Development’s employee course catalog “Training Pages” is now available online with course listings for July through December.