Summer Awad, an anthropology student who just finished her freshman year, grew up hearing Arabic spoken at home but was never fluent in it herself. That may change this summer when she spends eight weeks in Nizwa, Oman, on a US State Department Critical Language Scholarship. Critical Language Scholarships give college students the opportunity to
UT alumnus Timothy Hulsey has been named associate provost and director of the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars programs. He will begin on July 1. He currently is the founding dean of the Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hulsey will be responsible for recruiting honors students and faculty to work with them. Among other
Fadi Saleh is a UT pre-med sophomore from Memphis who’s making a name for himself in the Internet music mash-up world. His recent video of President Barack Obama “singing” Carly Rae Jepsen’s hit “Call Me Maybe” has been an Internet and media sensation this summer, earning mentions on CNN and in Us Weekly magazine, The
The Knoxville News Sentinel took an inside look into the thirteen students graduating this week as part of the inaugural class of Haslam Scholars, UT’s premier scholarship program.
This fall, fifteen high school seniors will enter the university as the 2012 class of Haslam Scholars, the university’s premier, four-year scholarship program. The group includes the program’s first male scholar-athlete, swimmer Ben Miller, and Franco D’Aprile, the sibling of a current Haslam Scholar.
Next month, the first class of Haslam Scholars will graduate. These students arrived at UT four years ago as part of the inaugural class of the Haslam Scholars Program, a premier four-year scholarship program created with generous contributions from Jimmy and Dee Haslam and Jim and Natalie Haslam.
Caitlin Conley Wise will never forget the day she met Steve and Laura Morris, who are making her college dreams a reality. Wise is part of the university’s first-year class of Haslam Scholars and the first student to benefit from the M. Steven and Laura Capps Morris Endowed Honors Scholarship, which is awarded to an
Thirty high school seniors from Tennessee, Texas and North Carolina will be on campus this weekend to interview to be part of the 2012-2013 class of Haslam Scholars, the premier scholarship program offered by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
When Chelsea Knotts began volunteering with a homeless ministry, she realized she could contribute her own talents by creating a running club for area homeless. Knotts is a senior Haslam Scholar majoring in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology. She is also a Lady Vol cross-country runner. She had worked with Redeeming Hope Ministries on
Fifteen high school seniors, including fourteen from Tennessee and one from Arkansas, have been named as the 2011-12 class of Haslam Scholars at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The Haslam Scholar program is UT Knoxville’s premier four-year scholarship program. Each year, it admits a maximum of 15 first-year students from the university-wide Chancellor’s Honors Program
High school seniors from Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas have been selected as finalists for the 2011 class of Haslam Scholars at UT Knoxville. The finalists will be on campus next month to interview. Fifteen will be invited to be part of the 2011-2012 class of Haslam Scholars.
Fifteen students have been named as the 2010 class of Haslam Scholars at UT Knoxville. Haslam Scholars are part of an intimate academic and leadership group mentored by top UT faculty. Selection criteria included scholastic achievement, leadership potential, maturity and seriousness of purpose, and special talents.