UT Researchers Develop Comprehensive, Accessible Vision Testing Device
1/18/12 9:20 am •
Eighty-five percent of children’s learning is related to vision. Yet in the US, 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. Three researchers at the UT Space Institute are working to change that with an invention that makes children eye exams simple to inexpensive, comprehensive, and simple to administer.
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Former Presidential Speechwriter John McConnell to Speak at UT
1/27/12 12:54 pm •
John McConnell, former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney will speak at the University of Tennessee on January 31. The main event is at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center. It is free and open to the public.
UT Scores Big on EPA Game Day Recycling Challenge
1/27/12 10:43 am •
Last October, the campus competed in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Game Day Recycling Challenge, a friendly nationwide contest to determine which university can reduce the most waste during a football game day. In total, seventy-five universities competed in five categories: recycling, trash diversion, greenhouse gas reduction, organics reduction, and waste minimization.
Faculty Appreciation Week: Order basketball tickets, make TLC lunch reservations now!
1/27/12 10:15 am •
Faculty Appreciation Week will be celebrated February 13–17, and now’s the time to buy your discounted basketball tickets and reserve a spot at a special luncheon seminar being sponsored by the Tennessee Teaching and Learning Center.
Book Drive for L&N STEM Academy
1/26/12 5:39 pm •
Help Knox County’s newest high school put books on its library shelves by joining the campus book drive from February 3 through February 10. Books must be donated with no strings attached and may be used in any way that benefits the new high school library.
In Memoriam: Bain Stewart
1/26/12 10:19 am •
Former UT English professor and department head Bain Stewart died Saturday, January 21, at the age of 96. Stewart came to UT in 1940 when John Hodges was the department head and retired in 1985—a forty-five year career that was interrupted only by service in World War II.
EUReCA Highlights Undergraduate Achievement
1/25/12 5:38 pm •
The University of Tennessee’s sixteenth annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement will be held March 28-29 at the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center Ballroom. EURēCA highlights research and creative projects completed by UT Knoxville students in collaboration with a faculty mentor.
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- 1/20/12 • USA Today: Centaur ‘skeleton’ takes science center stage
- 1/18/12 • Greenwire: Scientists chart new path for Deepwater Horizon plume
- 1/18/12 • LA Times: Gulf currents aided breakdown of oil after BP spill, study says
- 1/12/12 • Science: Could Climate Change Alter Lizard Learning?
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