Sixty students selected for this year’s Alternative Fall Break will volunteer on projects in five different cities from October 17 through 20. To defray their travel expenses, the students are raising money through UT’s new “Impact Big Ideas” crowd-funding program. Although the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development established online giving years ago, the crowd-funding
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in physics to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for their research on what has come to be called the Higgs field, which gives elementary particles mass. The UT High Energy Physics group has been part of the hunt for the Higgs boson since 2006,
Peter Diamond, Nobel Prize winner in economics and U.S. labor market expert, will be the guest speaker at the Knoxville Economics Forum on Friday, November 8. Reservations are being accepted now for the event, which is sponsored by UT’s Department of Economics. The program will take place at Club LeConte. Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m.
In celebration of International Archaeology Day and National Fossil Day, the McClung Museum will host a family-friendly event, “Can You Dig It?” on Sunday, October 13. The event, from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m., will feature activities about archaeology and fossils. It is free and open to the public and reservations are not required.The event will
The College of Law’s Homer A. Jones Jr. Wills Clinic has been providing estate-planning services to East Tennesseans of modest means since 2009. Under supervision, students prepare wills, powers of attorney, living wills, and other estate planning documents free of charge for clients, including nonexempt university staff, who meet certain financial and other guidelines.
The technology of 3D printing and manufacturing is the topic of the continuing Science Forum series. Chad Duty, group leader of Deposition Science and Technology Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will present “3D Printing: The Next Generation of Manufacturing” Friday, October 11.