Governor Announces Advisory Board Members
Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam recently appointed 20 members to new advisory boards for each of the campuses within the UT System.
Professor Advocates Interdisciplinary Approach to Climate Change
Solving climate change requires a new and deeply interdisciplinary approach, says Lisa Reyes Mason, assistant professor and director of the College of Social Work PhD program, in a recent commentary for “Nature Climate Change”.
Boyd Venture Challenge Awards Funding to UT Student Startups
Three businesses owned by students at UT were awarded a total of $25,000 in the fall 2018 Boyd Venture Challenge.
Underground Life Has a Carbon Mass Hundreds of Times Larger Than Humans
Microorganisms living underneath the surface of the earth have a total carbon mass of 15 to 23 billion tons, hundreds of times more than that of humans, according to findings announced by the Deep Carbon Observatory and coauthored by UT Professor of Microbiology Karen Lloyd.