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UT Board Approves Knoxville Campus Building Names
The university’s Board of Trustees approved proposals today to name or rename several buildings on the Knoxville campus. The trustees held their winter meeting on the UT Chattanooga campus. All of the names approved will honor families or individuals who have made a significant contribution to the university and its history. One of the names marks a first in UT history. The new Fred D. Brown Residence Hall is the first building on the UT Knoxville campus to be named for an African-American person.
Ready for the World Café to Feature Southern French Fare
The Ready for the World Café will feature traditional cuisine of southern France on Thursday, March 7. The café, sponsored by Sysco Foods, operates from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays in the UT Visitors Center on Neyland Drive. Advance tickets will be sold for the luncheons, and capacity is eighty diners. Cost will be $12, and the faculty-staff discount does not apply. For tickets and reservations, call 865-974-6645, or e-mail rhtm@utk.edu.
Inspiring Ideas: UT Libraries
Get to know Gayle Baker and Thura Mack from the UT Libraries. It’s Baker’s job to stay current on electronic resources for faculty and students, and then make sure they know how to use them. Mack has been working in libraries since she was in high school, when she worked with an outreach librarian who delivered books on tape for the blind in the community.
Inspiring Ideas: College of Arts and Sciences
As part of Faculty Appreciation Week, meet Michelle Brown, Tom Burman, Witek Nazarewicz, and Althea Murphy-Price from the College of Arts and Sciences. Brown is an assistant professor of sociology, Burman is head of the Department of History, Nazarewicz is a professor of physics, and Murphy-Price is an assistant professor of art.
UT Welcomes New Business Dean Steve Mangum
Steve Mangum begins serving today as the new dean of the College of Business Administration. He replaces Jan Williams, who retired on February 28 after more than twelve years as dean of the college and thirty-five years at the university. Before coming to UT, Mangum was senior associate dean at The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business.
Inspiring Ideas: College of Veterinary Medicine
Get to know Steve Adair and Diane Hendrix from the College of Veterinary Medicine. A veterinary sports medicine and rehabilitation specialist, Adair is known for paying special attention to his patients during their treatment and rehabilitation. Hendrix says a great day for her is when she has at least four different species of patients come across her exam table.
Service-Learning at UT
The Office of Service-Learning supports faculty in the design and implementation of service-learning courses and facilitates quality service-learning partnerships between faculty and community organizations.
Kudos
Our Department of History is home to faculty recognized as National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, and MacArthur fellows. In fact, 60 percent of the history faculty have won major research awards in the last decade.
With ten NEH awards, UT is tied for seventh place with Washington University (St. Louis) and UC-Irvine on the list of all universities, both private and public, that have been awarded the most NEH Fellowships since 2005.
Cone Zone
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Follow Smokey as construction transforms our campus
Cone Zone is designed to help you navigate our campus—through conezone.utk.edu and signs around campus—as constructions project continue to transform our landscape.
Work @ UT
Working at the University of Tennessee offers more than just a stable job. Generous vacation and personal leave, numerous retirement options, free tuition, and all the added benefits of life at a major research university.
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