Flagship Scholarship Expands to Eight New Tennessee High Schools
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has announced eight new high schools are now eligible for the Flagship Scholarship.
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has announced eight new high schools are now eligible for the Flagship Scholarship.
Four UT students are among more than 1,400 American undergraduate students from 427 colleges and universities across the country selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.
Niklos Toldi has been named the first-place winner of the 2018 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship.
The Graduate School encourages faculty to help UT attract the best and brightest students by reaching out to prospective PhD candidates now to remind them of the January 17, 2018, application deadline for the FY 2019 Tennessee Fellowship for Graduate Excellence.
Receiving the Memphis UT Knoxville Alumni Chapter Scholarship helped Michael Pham, a 2017 graduate of Christian Brothers High School, become a Volunteer.
In recent years, UT has challenged its alumni to fund more scholarships, and they have met that challenge with the help of alumni chapters, special interest councils, and individual donations.
Dean and Priscilla Mills of Morristown, Tennessee, have given the university $25,000 to endow a scholarship in memory of their son Jonathan, who died in 2016 at age 28 of complications from an asthma attack.
Two students in the College of Architecture and Design have won prestigious scholarships and internships with Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm with 46 locations and 5,000 professionals on five continents.
For two lucky UT students, Wednesday was doubly special: They helped the university set a GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the largest human letter and they each walked away with a $5,000 scholarship.
Adrian Altshuler, a 1981 UT graduate who is now an attorney in Franklin, Tennessee, has established two scholarships, each providing $3,000 per year to a UT student in the Tennessee Pledge program.
In accordance with a new Tennessee law, Public Chapter 1066, UT has reallocated approximately $436,000 in the university’s 2016–17 fiscal year budget for scholarships to be awarded through a new minority engineering scholarship program.
More than forty-three thousand donors and philanthropic investors chose to support UT in fiscal year 2016.