2024: Rocky Top Year in Review
Take a look back at some of UT’s favorite photos and special moments from 2024.
The Conversation: In Hawaii, Parasites and Viruses Team Up in the Battle Against Fruit Flies – an Entomologist Explains the Implication for Global Pest Control
The complex interactions that insects have evolved with microbes may might help researchers tackle global food security issues.
The Conversation: Trees Compete for Space, Light and Resources, and Those Clashes Can Leave Battle Scars
Researchers can model forests’ future growth and development by understanding the ways trees react to weather and other disturbances.
The Conversation: Potato Plant Radiation Sensors Could One Day Monitor Radiation in Areas Surrounding Power Plants
Potato plants can survive 10 times the amount of radiation that would kill a human.
UT Names Recipients of Inaugural Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards
Five projects were selected for awards, with each researcher or research team receiving $50,000 to move research beyond the laboratory and into the commercial market.
The Conversation: Cannabis Products May Harbor Fungal Toxins Harmful to Human Health, but Regulations Are Uneven or Nonexistent
Controlling fungi in crops is essential for both plant and human health.
2023 Wrapped: A Banner Year
Take a look back at some of UT’s favorite photos and special moments from 2023.
UT, City of Knoxville Receive $4.3 Million to Plant Trees in Urban Areas
UT’s grant will increase tree canopy coverage, reduce stormwater runoff, mitigate extreme heat and bring ecosystem services to underserved communities in East Knoxville.
Board of Trustees Approves New Residence Halls, Institute of Agriculture Leader
The new residential communities will be built through a public-private partnership and are expected to add approximately 1,900 beds to the university’s housing inventory when they open in fall 2025.
The Conversation: Your Microbes Live on After You Die − a Microbiologist Explains How Your Necrobiome Recycles Your Body to Nourish New Life
Microbes play an important role in the microscopic way we live on after death.
Prominent UT Alumni to Address Spring Graduates
UT will host 11 commencement ceremonies May 18-20 as it welcomes more than 5,000 graduates into its alumni family.
The Conversation: Easter Bunnies, Cacao Beans and Pollinating Bugs—A Basket of Six Essential Reads about Chocolate
Two food scientists, an entomologist, an anthropologist, a veterinarian and a historian walk into a bar (of chocolate) and tell bitter and sweet stories of this favorite treat.