Envisioning a Difference
Turning the city’s rotting food into rich soil is just one of the ways graduate student Marilyn Reish is sowing the seeds of a better community.
UT Knoxville Advisory Board to Meet May 13
The UT Knoxville Advisory Board will meet May 13 at UT’s Institute for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing.
Student Start-Ups Awarded Funding
Six businesses by eight students were awarded a total of $20,000 in funding. The competition split the funding into two categories based on the startups’ scalability.
Luce Foundation Grant to Support New Exhibition on Mound
The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, received a $300,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to support the exhibition, a related website, educational outreach, and programming for “A Sense of Indigenous Place: Native American Voices and the Mound at University of Tennessee.” The exhibition will be presented
Celebrating Outstanding Students, Faculty, and Staff
Faculty, staff, and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, were recognized for outstanding achievements during the Academic Honors Banquet and the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet.
The Conversation: Nuclear Fusion Hit a Milestone Thanks to Better Reactor Walls—this Engineering Advance is Building Toward Reactors of the Future
David Donovan and Livia Casali explain the engineering advancements that made a recent nuclear fusion breakthrough possible.
Army ROTC Cadets Lead Largest Field Training Exercise in Program’s History
Nearly 160 junior and senior Army ROTC cadets from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, led a five-day comprehensive training program at Fort Knox, Kentucky, for cadets from four Tennessee universities.
Researchers map heat inequities in Knoxville
UT researchers will team up with community members to map urban heat islands and collect the data necessary to protect disproportionately affected communities.
Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Five UT graduate students have received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
UT Receives Gallup’s 2022 Don Clifton Strengths for Students Award
UT received one of two 2022 Don Clifton Strengths for Students Awards, which recognize colleges, universities, and districts that “enable students to learn what they naturally do best and apply their strengths to thrive in school and all areas of their lives.”
Alumna Thinking Big in the EV-Charging World
In 2019 Sheryl Ponds, a 1987 graduate of UT’s Tickle College of Engineering, founded Dai Technologies Corporation, which provides tailor-made turnkey installations of electric-vehicle charging stations for homes, multifamily developments, and commercial settings, including curbside parking in the Washington, DC, metro area.
Williams Named W. T. Grant Scholar
Assistant Professor of Sociology Deadric Williams is one of five new William T. Grant Scholars. The program supports the professional development of promising researchers in the social, behavioral, and health sciences.