The News Sentinel recently highlighted the impact of the UT-Project GRAD Summer Institute in this story. The program, which was held this month, served 130 students from Fulton and Austin-East High Schools. The weeklong program aims to prepare inner-city students to succeed in college. The institute is a collaboration between UT and Project GRAD, which stands for Graduation
IBM surveyed leaders from thirty-three different industries in sixty countries to determine their most highly valued professional trait. The answer? Creativity. UT will celebrate creativity during the 2014-15 academic year by making creativity the theme of that year’s Life of the Mind book. A committee of faculty, staff, and students will review many books to
Fifty drinking straws, one roll of masking tape, a pair of scissors and a ruler. That’s all the rising high-school students participating in the Engineering Volunteers for Ninth Graders program at the College of Engineering were given on Monday. The Knoxville News Sentinel attended the project which is just one of the many interactive projects
Tiny, wood-boring marine crustaceans with a funny name and a penchant for collectively attacking piers and dining on driftwood, ships, boats, and docks have made a big splash in the science news media lately. These creatures, called Gribbles, have as their recent claim to fame a novel biomass-degrading enzyme in their guts that is of