Grad Student Studies How Libraries Can Better Serve the Homeless
A UT graduate student has studied how libraries can better serve poor and homeless people in their communities.
UT Center for Educational Leadership Recognized with National Award
The National Rural Education Association has recognized the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Educational Leadership with the 2018 NREA Exemplary Practices Award for its Administrators Planning Innovation for Rural Education rural school leadership initiative.
From Miley to Kanye: UT Course Looks at Celebrities’ Ups and Downs
Students in Big Idols, Big Falls, a First-Year Studies 129 course explore the redemption of public figures who have fallen from society’s good graces.
Visiting Scholar to Speak on Using the Arts for Social Change
Deborah Wong, an ethnomusicologist and professor from the University of California, Riverside, is the next speaker in the UT Humanities Center’s 2018-19 Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture Series.
McClung Museum’s Community Day Celebrates Local Diversity, Activism
UT’s McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture will celebrate Knoxville’s rich history of activism and diversity during a family and community day related to its current exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights.
CCI Diversity and Inclusion Week Features Award-Winning Journalist
The College of Communication and Information invites the campus community to participate in its ninth annual Diversity and Inclusion Week, September 24–27.
Student Documents ‘Hate in America’
UT senior and Knoxville native Andrew Capps spent seven months interviewing experts, attorneys, and victims about their experiences with hate crimes across America.
Williams’s US Open Controversy Is Platform for Discussion
The 2018 US Open final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka will be remembered for Williams’s argument with chair umpire Carlos Ramos.
UT Recycling to Fight Food Insecurity with New Campus Garden
UT Recycling has opened the Grow Lab, a campus garden that serves as an outdoor classroom and hub for community engagement while working to address local food insecurity.
Jackson Memorial Lecture to Trace ‘Southern Journey’
By tracing the movement of people through the South in the eras of slavery, segregation, and the present, Edward Ayers will tell the story of Southern history over two centuries.
Psychologist Looks at How We Find Common Ground
Garriy Shteynberg will lead a three-year study to examine how Americans’ social and political attitudes have grown more extreme.
CSPS Partnership Awarded ESPN Sports Humanitarian Award
A Center for Sport, Peace, and Society partnership program has been named a Stuart Scott ENSPIRE Award honoree at ESPN’s Sports Humanitarian Awards.