There are just three weeks left in this year’s RecycleMania and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is off to a great start! In the first five weeks, the campus has 40 percent more materials this year compared to 2010. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, recycled more than 63,060 pounds of cardboard, paper, plastic and cans
Appearing on WATE-TV, Nuclear Engineering Professor Lawrence Townsend discussed radiation sickness symptoms in light of the nuclear crisis in Japan. Townsend said, depending on their health, radiation sickness may affect some people more quickly than others. Cancer is another threat of radiation, but usually won’t show up for a long period of time. Townsend was
The network/system outage that was planned for this weekend has been postponed. The Office of Information Technology will not be moving forward with the infrastructure upgrades that were announced to begin tomorrow, March 18. The upgrades will be made at another time when the outage will have less of an overall impact on campus services.
The UT-Institute of Transportation Engineers Rural Teenage Driver Education Program was featured on WBIR-TV, WATE-TV and WVLT-TV. Led by doctoral students, the program seeks to teach rural teenagers to be proactive and conscientious drivers. Twenty-six percent of Tennesseans live in rural areas, yet 54 percent of the road fatalities in the state are in those