The children and staff at UT’s Early Learning Center have begun growing a lot of their own food in an effort to eat healthier. They want the school’s new kitchen garden to be a model for the community and a training ground for early childhood educators on gardening with young children and families. The school
As a high school student, Elizabeth Cagle attended the Design Matters camp at UT to see if architecture would be a viable career option. “It was confirmation that architecture was for me,” she said. “The camp exposed me to UT’s space and curriculum, so I felt comfortable here as a freshman.” Cagle and nine other
More than 3,730 undergraduate and graduate students received degrees from the university last week. Thirteen ceremonies took place between Wednesday, May 8, and Saturday, May 11, and featured a wide variety of speakers imparting their wisdom to these newly-minted UT alumni. Tennessee Today has collected some of the words of wisdom shared by this year’s
The Knoxville News Sentinel featured UT’s first graduates in the sustainability program, Nick Alderson and Alyssa Schroder. The program is an interdisciplinary degree, meaning students take courses that interest them in nearly any college as long as they focus on sustainability — the concept of living in a way that reduces society’s environmental impact and
Summer Awad, an anthropology student who just finished her freshman year, grew up hearing Arabic spoken at home but was never fluent in it herself. That may change this summer when she spends eight weeks in Nizwa, Oman, on a US State Department Critical Language Scholarship. Critical Language Scholarships give college students the opportunity to