Alumni Veterans Are Saluted at a Weekend Reunion
Some 90 alumni veterans returned to UT over the weekend for a reunion.
Retail Expert: Holiday Shoppers Will Spend More, Break Online Sales Records
Adobe Digital Insights predicts the 2017 holiday season to be the first to break $100 billion in online sales, a 13 percent increase from last year.
Burghardt Shares Opinions on Pet Reptiles in New York Times
Gordon Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was quoted in a New York Times article about the debate on whether reptiles and amphibians should be house pets.
Tickle College of Engineering, Children’s Hospital Introduce Kids to 3D Printing
UT’s Tickle College of Engineering and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital have teamed up to entertain and educate patients through the use of a portable 3D printer.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Khomami
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named UT’s Bamin Khomami, the head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, as a 2018 Fellow.
Dean’s ‘Endurance’ Hits #5 on New York Times Best Seller List
Margaret Lazarus Dean first spoke to Scott Kelly when he was living on the International Space Center. The conversation launched a friendship between the professor and the astronaut that lead to a collaboration on Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery, which recently hit number five on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Four Volunteer Veterans Presented with Quilts of Valor
Four UT veterans—two students, a campus librarian, and the UT police chief—were surprised November 17 with one of the warmest honors veterans can receive: a handcrafted quilt from the Quilts of Valor Foundation.
Veterans Resource Center Holds Grand Opening Celebration
Several hundred people—many of them student and alumni veterans—gathered November 17 to celebrate the grand opening of UT’s Veteran Resource Center in John C. Hodges Library.