Amber Williams Named Vice Provost for Student Success
Amber Williams, assistant vice chancellor for academic services and enrollment management at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will become UT’s first vice provost for student success.
Chancellor Shares Message of Courage during Investiture Ceremony
UT is at a moment of great opportunity, and capitalizing on this momentum requires the courage to take risks, to care about one another, and to lead our state and world.
Faculty Member Explores Growing Trend of Senior Co-Housing
Increasingly, older adults are single and either have no children or live a considerable distance away from their grown children. They try to stay fit and take a more holistic approach to their health. They want to live independently as long as possible. At the same time, many are lonely.
Microbiologist Karen Lloyd Awarded $2.5M Grant for Permafrost Research
As permafrost thaws, microbes break down the newly available carbon in the soil, possibly resulting in a flux of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Study: Fire-Spawned Fungi Hide in Other Organisms
When a wildfire obliterates a forest, the first life to rise from the ashes is usually a fungus—one of several species that cannot complete its life cycle without fire.
UT Libraries Ranks among Top 25
For the second consecutive year, the UT Libraries ranks 23rd among public research university libraries in the United States, according to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), a coalition of 124 major research libraries in the US and Canada, including the National Library of Medicine and the Library of Congress.
Study: Underground Fungal Relationships Key to Thriving Plants
For a plant to thrive, it needs the help of a friendly fungus—preferably one that will dig its way deep into the cells of the plant’s roots.
Architecture Schools Ranked Among Most Admired with Most-Hired Graduates
UT’s College of Architecture and Design has been recognized in several categories in the most recent national rankings report released by DesignIntelligence, the preeminent source of design program rankings.
Researchers to Test Habituation as a Tool in Child Obesity Treatment
Researchers with the Department of Nutrition have received a $2 million grant to develop a limited dietary prescription that uses habituation to improve long-term weight loss for patients with childhood obesity.
UT Professor Awarded NIH MIRA Grant for 3D Genome Structure Research
UT biophysicist Rachel Patton McCord has been awarded a $1.84 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award from the National Institute for General Medical Science to investigate how the 3D folded structure of the human genome reacts to physical stress in health and disease.
Advisory Board Reviews Budget, Receives Update from Chancellor
UT Knoxville’s Advisory Board met today to hear a presentation from Chancellor Donde Plowman, take a detailed look at the university’s budget, and receive an update on student success and enrollment metrics.
Urban Architecture Students Design for Middle Tennessee
In 2008, when Thomas K. Davis took over the Nashville Urban Design Studio in the College of Architecture and Design, he had a clear vision in mind: his students would design projects that could become real-world structures across Nashville and other parts of Middle Tennessee.