UT Hosts Film Showing to Commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day
UT’s McClung Museum will host a viewing of the film Unmasked Judeophobia at 7 p.m. on January 26 in its auditorium.
UT Selects Firm to Assist with Athletic Director Search
UT intends to award a contract to Turnkey Sports and Entertainment to assist Chancellor-Elect Beverly Davenport in the search for the university’s next director of athletics.
Seven UT Students Awarded Gilman International Scholarship to Study Abroad
Seven UT students are among the more than 850 American undergraduate students from 359 colleges and universities across the country selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The scholarship, sponsored by the US Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, allows students to study or intern abroad during the spring
UT-ORNL Research Highlighted in Physical Review Letters
A breakthrough in the understanding of a key aspect of materials science and physics stemmed from recent UT-ORNL research.
News Sentinel: UT’s LeCleir Helps Knox County Students with Space Flight Experiment
A group of local middle school students who designed a microgravity experiment to test a treatment for common pinkeye in space will travel to Cape Canaveral in February to watch their experiment take flight. Gary LeCleir, assistant research professor in the Department of Microbiology, helped the students design their experiment using a common pinkeye bacteria.
Center for International Education Awards Study Abroad Scholarships for Spring 2017 Semester
The Center for International Education awarded 124 undergraduate students Study Abroad Undergraduate scholarships totaling $152,500 for the spring 2017 semester and spring break study abroad programs. This highly successful scholarship program is made possible by student fees and donations. The Undergraduate Study Abroad Scholarship is merit and need based and ranges in value from $750
Simek to Appear in Nat Geo’s ‘The Story of God with Morgan Freeman’ Monday
UT’s Jan Simek will appear in the National Geographic series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman on Monday, January 23. The segment will air at 9 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel. In the episode, Simek and Beau Carroll, a UT anthropology graduate student and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, talk
RSVP for Faculty Appreciation Week Events
Faculty Appreciation Week will be held February 6–10, and some of the planned events require RSVPs if you want to attend.