A Clarksville, Tennessee, vineyard beat out wineries from fourteen states and won the Best of Show title at UT’s eleventh annual Wines of the South competition. Beachaven Vineyards and Winery took the main prize with its 2008 Syrah during the competition this month. Fifty wineries from across the Southeast entered the contest and submitted 392
Jose Castro, a clinical Instructor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, recently traveled to Ecuador to participate in the first International Seminar of Equine Emergencies, Reproduction, and Dentistry. Castro helped plan eight lectures and two labs related to gastrointestinal, wound management, and fractures and reproductive emergencies in horses.
Internationally acclaimed poet Adam Zagajewski—widely known for his poem “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” published in The New Yorker in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks—will be on campus on October 31 to read from his works. He will participate in an informal chat at 2:00 p.m. in McClung Tower. His
Historian Amy Remensnyder of Brown University will deliver the ninth annual Riggsby Lecture on medieval Mediterranean history and culture at 4:00 p.m., Friday, October 26. The event will be held at the Lindsay Young Auditorium in Hodges Library. Remensnyder’s lecture is titled “La Conquistadora: A Tale of Two Seas, The Virgin Mary, Muslims, Christians, Jews,
J.R. Shute, co-founder and co-director of Conservation Fisheries Inc., has been studying endangered fish for more than twenty-five years. He’ll be discussing the importance of protecting rare species of fish at Friday’s Science Forum. The Science Forum is a weekly brown bag lunch series that allows professors and area scientists to discuss their research with
More work is about to commence for the new Student Union. On Monday, October 29, construction fencing will go up around Temple Court, Aconda Court, and the building at 812 Volunteer Boulevard. The small Staff Lot 12 in this area will be closed. The area known as “the pit,” including the Smokey’s entrance, also will