Category archive for ‘Arts & Sciences’ 
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April 18, 2013
The twelfth annual High School Arts Academy at UT gave eighty students from thirty East Tennessee schools an opportunity to study visual arts in a university setting last month. Students...Read More »
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April 17, 2013
Devon Burr, assistant professor of earth and planetary science, has been publishing papers about NASA's mission to Titan, a moon of Saturn, since 2006. She will be discussing some of...Read More »
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April 15, 2013
The Knoxville News Sentinel profiles the mass grave research project being conducted the Forensic Anthropology Center. For the next three years, scientists will monitor fresh burial sites made at the...Read More »
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April 10, 2013
Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, helped make an interesting discovery in a dinosaur fossil earlier this year. She will be discussing her research at...Read More »
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April 10, 2013
Research and development efforts can be time-consuming.Many projects end up taking years to complete and most researchers at the Y-12 National Security Complex must divide their time between numerous projects....Read More »
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April 9, 2013
UT's Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage has been honored with the Tennessee Native Plant Society Conservation Award, which is given annually to a person who has contributed significantly to the preservation and...Read More »
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April 8, 2013
The Gulf of Mexico may have a much greater natural ability to self-clean oil spills than previously believed, according to Terry Hazen, University of Tennessee—Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair...Read More »
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April 8, 2013
Stefan Spanier, an associate professor of physics and expert in accelerator-based particle physics, shares his insight into the hunt for the Higgs boson, also known as the "God" particle. Spanier...Read More »
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April 8, 2013
Research by Sean Doody in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was featured in Science. The research has found that unborn lizards can erupt from their eggs days early...Read More »
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April 3, 2013
The groundbreaking research of Gordon Burghardt, Alumni Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, was cited in a BBC article about cranes dancing. Burghardt...Read More »
