International Outlets Feature Study on Reducing Malaria Severity
International media outlets feature UT malaria study.
O’Meara Receives NSF CAREER Grant for Research on Species Evolution
Brian O’Meara, an evolutionary biologist at UT, is developing methods that will use information from species alive now, and potentially extinct species, to understand how and why species have changed through time.
WBIR Features Students’ Voterpalooza Event
A group of students organized Voterpalooza this week to help their peers learn about candidates and public policy issues. WBIR-TV Channel 10 featured the event.
The Atlantic: Business Faculty Members Search for Origins of Racial Wage Gap
Center for Business and Economic Research faculty member Celeste Carruthers and Economics faculty member Marianne Wanamaker were recently featured in The Atlantic. In the article, Carruthers and Wanamaker shed light on today’s racial wage gap by turning to history.
In Memoriam: Leonard Handler
Leonard Handler, a longtime professor in the Department of Psychology, passed away February 6. He was 79. Handler came to UT in 1964. He supervised graduate students in the clinical doctoral program.
Registration Opens Sunday for Sixty-Sixth Annual Wildflower Pilgrimage
Registration for the sixty-sixth annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage opens at 8:00 a.m. Sunday, February 14. The event is April 19-23 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Each year, more than 700 people from more than thirty-five states and beyond descend on the Great Smoky Mountains to see the forest flowers blooming as vibrant spring
A Heart for Others: From Peace Corps Volunteer to Tennessee Volunteer
With a heart to help others and a desire to make the world a better place, Abby Borst spent two years in Panama as a Peace Corps volunteer before enrolling at UT last fall.