Calvin MacLean has always been a performer. MacLean joined the UT faculty in 2006 as the producing artistic director at the Clarence Brown Theatre and head of the theatre department. See an interview with Cal aired on UTTV - Campus Channel 65 and Comcast Digital 194 at 7:30 a.m. Thursday.
As chairman of the Chancellor Search Committee, I was pleased to announce last week that we have invited five highly qualified finalists to campus. During the finalists' visits, faculty and staff will have a chance to meet each candidate, ask them questions and provide the search committee with feedback.
Congratulations to Yanfei Gao, an assistant professor in the Materials Science and Engineering department, for winning our Tennessee Today readership contest! Gao is the lucky winner of free parking for the fall semester. We will publicize results of the survey once they are compiled.
Information Technology has a new home in the Kingston Pike Building, and UT Knoxville faculty and staff can take a peek next Tuesday, Sept. 9, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
A new Campus Status page on the UT Knoxville Web site will notify employees of road and building closures on campus. This important non-emergency information will appear in the daily Tennessee Today e-mail. Visit the page at http://www.utk.edu/status/.
Next week, the first two of our five finalists for UT Knoxville chancellor will visit campus. I'd like to remind you of the campus community forums that have been scheduled and urge you to attend. You can learn more about the candidates and see the schedule of public forums at http://chancellor.utk.edu/search/. Your participation and feedback are highly valued and encouraged throughout this process.
The National Science Foundation has awarded UT Knoxville $16 million to begin the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, or NIMBioS. The center will be directed by Louis Gross, a professor of math and ecology and evolutionary biology.
The musical Ain't Misbehavin', the story of the amazing performer and composer Fats Waller, kicks off the Clarence Brown Theatre's season tonight at 7:30 p.m. Performances run through Sept. 21. View a short video to learn more about Clarence Brown and the entire season. For tickets, call 974-5161 or visit www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. To read a profile of CBT artistic director and theatre department head Cal MacLean in the Sept. 2 Tennessee Today, click here.
Nicholas Frank of the UT College of Veterinary Medicine is one of the researchers answering questions on equine insulin resistance in this issue of The Horse magazine.
This News Sentinel article mentions the role played by UT's Community Partnership Center in bringing wireless Internet service to downtown Knoxville.
This AP story about the father and son hurt in a bear attack in the Great Smokies National Park mentions that the bear was taken to the UT Veterinary Medical Center to determine if it was ill or had rabies.
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UT's Department of Religious Studies has been selected to host Rivka Ribak of the University of Haifa as their 2008-2009 Schusterman Visiting Israel Professor. The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise selects 20 American universities each year to receive grants to appoint a visitor.
In support of UT's Ready for the World International and Intercultural Awareness Initiative, the Center for International Education seeks participants in its fall 2008 International Literary Colloquy on Native American culture.
Administrators from the Sichuan University of China are on the UT Knoxville campus to attend a training program sponsored by the newly-established Tennessee in China Initiative.