In this Wall Street Journal article, William F. Fox, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research, talks about the importance of a city offering incentives as a necessary tool for its economic development.
While most of Knox County’s air quality measures in the green or good range today, the Knox County Health Department is advising that areas near the downtown-area mulch fire are likely still being impacted by unhealthy air due to smoke. While the impact area changes due to weather conditions and wind direction, health officials said
UT Knoxville teemed with aspiring high school scientists last weekend during the annual Tennessee Science Olympiad State Tournament. Thirty-six middle and high school teams from across the state competed in the event to determine the state’s preeminent science scholars. Teams from Knoxville and Nashville took top honors. More than a hundred UT faculty and students
More than a quarter-ton of paper, a half-pound of food waste, and 1.25 pounds of plastic bottles and aluminum cans per faculty, staff, and student. That’s just a sample of what the campus collected in this year’s RecycleMania competition. In total, the campus community collected 299,000 pounds of recyclable material and finished fourth in the
The biosolar energy work of Barry Bruce, associate professor Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, was featured in the Metro Pulse.
This semester’s finale for the Ready for the World Café will be held Thursday, April 26, featuring hearty German cooking.
A native of British Columbia, Canada, Larry McKay had to pull out a map to locate the state of Tennessee twenty years ago when he was invited to UT. Knoxville was the place he wanted to go to start his career as a professor after he learned the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences would
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, but Professor Gilya Schmidt does her part every day to make sure people don’t forget the horrors of the Holocaust. A professor in the Department of Religious Studies, Schmidt has researched the world of German Jewry for the past twenty years. She teaches the undergraduate course Voices of the Holocaust