Kudos for Spring 2018: Faculty, Staff, and Students Receive Outside Honors and Awards
Faculty, staff, and students were honored by outside organizations in recent months.
UT Names Parker Interim Dean of Tickle College of Engineering
Lynne E. Parker has been named interim dean of the Tickle College of Engineering.
UT, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Partner to Advance Health Science
The partnership looks to improve everything from patient wait times to recovery from surgery.
UT Honors Algal Blooms Expert with Cox Professorship
Steven Wilhelm, a microbiologist who is developing methods that could help scientists understand and mitigate the effects of bacteria and algal blooms in oceans and large lakes, has been named a James R. Cox Professor.
Manderscheid Named UT’s New Provost, Senior Vice Chancellor
David Manderscheid, currently executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for arts and sciences at the Ohio State University, has been named UT’s new provost and senior vice chancellor.
Papanicolaou Earns 2018 Einstein Award
Swimmers, tubers, and boaters often have the same question when they are in or around the water: what exactly is down there? UT’s Henry Goodrich Chair of Excellence Thanos Papanicolaou has helped solve that riddle by developing a way for researchers to see underwater sediment and predict its likelihood for mobility.
College of Law to Offer Flexible Schedule JD Degree
Beginning in fall 2018, students can attend the College of Law without having to commit to full-time study.
Art Students, Children Completing Mural at Elementary School
Art students have been working with children at Maynard Elementary School to create a mural in the school’s library.
Nursing PhD Candidate Came to UT Because of Faculty Mentors
Sandy Cobb first became interested in seizure disorders while working as an EEG technician at the University of North Carolina Medical Center.
UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair to Lead Major Research for US Navy
The US Navy has chosen a UT professor to lead one of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative programs.
Allard Named Third CCI Board of Visitors Professor
Suzie Allard has been selected as the third recipient of the CCI Board of Visitors Professorship.
Three UT Graduate Schools Ranked in the Top 30
Several UT colleges and programs earned recognition from U.S. News and World Report in its 2019 graduate school rankings, which were released March 20.