For the second year in a row, a group of UT students are going to the Kentucky Derby to work behind the scenes. Members of Team UT will leave May 2 and will work a pre-Derby event on Friday and the main event on Saturday. They will return May 5. The group, in partnership with
As the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens battle it out on the field, a team of UT students will be behind the scenes at the NFL’s Super Bowl XLVII preparing special events and working VIP hospitality suites. TEAM UT, which includes fifteen undergraduate and graduate students and three faculty members, will work directly with
Nineteen elite South Korean athletes—from Olympic gold medalists to world champions—will spend the next few months at UT learning skills to become coaches and international sports ambassadors. The retired athletes also will improve their English language, learn sports marketing, pick up coaching techniques, and work in their area of athletic expertise as part of the
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For the first time, a team of UT students will be working behind the scenes at the Kentucky Derby and will manage the hospitality suite for the event’s elite guests. The group leaves on Thursday, May 3, and returns Sunday, May 6.The students received an invitation to help with the Derby after its officials learned
A group of UT Knoxville students and one faculty member will help prepare special events and conduct other behind-the-scenes work at this year’s NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, Indiana. TEAM UT, a mix of undergraduate and graduate students, will work directly with the Indianapolis Host Super Bowl XLVI Committee for the February 5 event.
UT Knoxville and Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea, have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on student and faculty exchanges, joint research activities, and other programs. The agreement was signed Monday by Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek and officials from Dong-A University.
A year ago, after learning that many high schools were desperate for high-end math and science calculators, UT Knoxville physics senior George Duffy began collecting them one by one. Along the way, he met professor Fritz G. Polite, director of the Institute for Leadership, Ethics, and Diversity. On Wednesday, the collection project—dubbed Calculators to Classrooms—donated
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and WNBA star and former Lady Vol Tamika Catchings are teaming up to help at-risk high school students in Knoxville. The collaboration was announced today at a press conference at UT. Catchings began Catch the Stars Foundation in 2004 to empower youth to achieve their dreams by providing goal-setting programs
Six students and one faculty member from UT Knoxville head to Miami this weekend to work behind the scenes at the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl XLIV. The students, all of whom want careers in sport management or journalism, will spend 10 days learning how a large-scale sporting event is prepared and carried out by
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