Last week Tennessee Today premiered a music video for Switch Your Thinking, our campus’s campaign to reduce energy consumption by 10 percent this year. The “Re-energize Switch Your Thinking” video featured everyone’s favorite mascot, Smokey, alongside students and staff from the Knoxville campus. The video was a collaboration of efforts from the Office of Communications
M. Mitchell Waldrop, acclaimed science writer and editor for the journal “Nature,” will give UT Knoxville’s annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in the Shiloh Room of the University Center. Waldrop will speak on “Lessons My Stories Taught Me.” The program is free and open to the public.
Three UT Knoxville undergraduates have been named 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. Juniors Britta Johnson and Mark Walker will receive scholarships from the Goldwater Foundation for their final year at UT Knoxville, and sophomore Madelyn Crawford will receive a scholarship for her remaining two years. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships are awarded yearly to sophomores
The Ready for the World Café celebrates Wellness Week at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the week of April 4-7 with healthy fare from around the world.
Marilyn Brown, a former University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor of geography with a previous career at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will discuss improving energy efficiency in the industry sector at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at the Baker Center.