Destination Imagination (DI), a nonprofit organization that provides learning opportunities to enrich the global community, will celebrate its thirtieth anniversary at Global Finals. This is the fourteenth year Knoxville has hosted the creative thinking and problem-solving competition for kindergarten through university-level students.

“We are busy preparing to host more than 14,000 visitors from around the world at Knoxville and the UT campus. It is an honor for our community to be selected year after year as the site for this prestigious event. I know first hand how DI changes lives and prepares students to succeed in our modern world,” said Robert Gibbs, executive director of UT Conferences and Noncredit Programs. “Our goal is to join with Destination Imagination to provide our visitors with a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

Teams selected from more than 15,000 attempting to qualify will present the projects created during their regional competitions. In addition to the presentations, teams will compete in open-ended challenges during the week-long competition. Such challenges require teams to solve problems using a holistic approach of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) knowledge; improvisation; theater arts; writing; project management; communication innovation; teamwork; and community service.

In addition to the challenges, Global Finals will offer a glimpse at the future of technology at the Innovation Expo. This year’s Expo will feature twenty-three activities that include 3M’s Duct Tape Playground and Data Wind’s first US preview of the world’s least expensive tablet.

Founded in 1982, Destination Imagination has impacted more than a million students.

For more information, visit the Global Finals website.

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C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakely@utk.edu)

The program, which is also a research project, is geared toward children who have completed grades three through five but are reading below grade level. To be eligible, children must have received free or reduced-price lunch during the 2012-2013 school year.

The initiative is being offered by the faculty and students in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education’s Special Education Program and the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling. They are partnering with the Korn Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills (KLASS) Center.

Parents whose children meet the project criteria and who are interested in having their children take part may call 865-974-6177 to schedule an appointment.

The project has two parts. In early June, children whose parents agree they can participate will receive reading assessments from UT graduate students in special education and school psychology. Once assessments are complete, children who qualify will be assigned to either a books or tutoring group.

Half of the children will receive eight free books of their choice at a book fair when they are given their reading assessments.

Beginning in mid- to late June, children must agree to read one book per week for eight weeks and keep a reading log. They also must be willing to participate in follow-up reading assessments in late July.

The other half of the children will participate in tutoring for ninety minutes every day for about four weeks, from July 1 to July 26. No tutoring will be held on July 4 and 5.

Parents must provide transportation and the children must be available to attend all four weeks of tutoring. Children whose families have vacations or other activities that will keep them from participating will not be included in the tutoring project.

Reading tutoring will be provided by newly trained special education teachers under the supervision of Sherry Bell, a professor in special education, and Melissa Martin, a graduate student in special education.

Arrangements for dropping children off, picking them up, and parking will be made by the staff of the KLASS Center.

A summary of children’s assessment scores both before and after the books or tutoring will be provided to parents.

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CONTACTS:

Sherry Bell (865-974-4154, sbell1@utk.edu)

Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)

An acrylic painting of a snowy egret by artist Sandra Blair.

Paintings, sculptures, and graphics celebrating the timeless appeal of birds are the focus of a new exhibit that opens Saturday, May 25, at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture.

The touring exhibit, Birds in Art, runs through August 18. It features sixty works created in the past two years by artists from around the world.

Since 1976, the annual Birds in Art exhibition has presented some of the best contemporary artistic interpretations of birds and related subject matter. From the plumed whistling duck to the colorful Amazonian parrot, these works represent numerous species and explore environmental issues—such as climate change—affecting birds today.

Several free exhibit programs are planned. They include a Birds in Art Stroller Tour for parents, caregivers, and their children at 10:00 a.m. on June 17.

A Birds in Art Family Activity Day will be held at 1:30 p.m. on June 22. It will feature bird-related activities and tours.

From 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. on June 1, the museum will commemorate its fiftieth anniversary with a community birthday celebration. The event will feature family activities, including one themed around the Birds in Art exhibition, as well as refreshments.

The Birds in Art exhibit is presented by the First Tennessee Foundation, the Henley W. and Peggy H. Tate Museum Fund, and the Ardath and Joel E. Rynning Museum Fund. Additional support is provided by the Arts and Heritage Fund, Knox County, and the City of Knoxville.

The exhibition is organized by the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.

The McClung Museum is located at 1327 Circle Park Drive. Museum admission is free, and the museum’s hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday to Saturday, and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sundays. The museum is closed on Memorial Day and on July 4. Free two-hour museum parking passes are available from the parking information building at the entrance to Circle Park Drive.

For more information about the McClung Museum and its collections and exhibits, visit the website.

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CONTACTS:

Catherine Shteynberg (865-974-6921, cshteynb@utk.edu)

Christina Selk (865-974-2143, cselk@utk.edu)

During the various training scenarios, officers placed in response teams encountered violent, dynamic situations. Active shooters, improvised explosive devices, and fatally wounded ‘victims’ were several of the elements the teams negotiated.

Many of the response teams were comprised of officers from different local law enforcement agencies.

“Training together prior to an emergency enhances our ability to respond effectively when an actual situation occurs,” said UTPD Chief Troy Lane. “Realistic training to prepare emergency responders is an invaluable tool.”

UTPD hosts exercises like these to prepare a response to a potentially violent situation on campus.

The tour, which will focus on the Battle of Fort Sanders, will begin at 10:00 a.m. in the foyer at the museum on the Knoxville campus. It is part of a monthly series of free tours that allow parents and caregivers to interact with one another and museum staff without the worry of disrupting other visitors.

All tours will be led by museum educators and will take place in a different gallery each month, exposing guests to a variety of the McClung’s exhibitions and collections. The tours will last about thirty minutes with fifteen minutes of time for questions.

Next month’s tour is June 17 and will focus on the upcoming special exhibit Birds in Art.

The tours are free and open to the public but are first come, first served and require registration. For more information, contact Abby Naunheimer at 865-974-2144 or anaunhei@utk.edu.

In the future, registration will open one month before each tour.

The museum is located at 1327 Circle Park Drive. Free two-hour museum parking passes are available from the parking information building at the entrance to Circle Park Drive. The grassy area in Circle Park in front of the museum offers a great place for rest and play before or after tours.

Photography is welcome in most museum galleries. Restrooms are equipped with a changing station. A service elevator is available for those with strollers to go downstairs. Food and drinks are not allowed in the galleries.

The museum’s exhibits include archaeology, ancient Egypt, decorative arts, the battle of Fort Sanders, geology, and fossils. Admission is free.

For more information about the McClung Museum and its collections and exhibits, visit the website.

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CONTACTS:

Abby Naunheimer (865-974-2144, anaunhei@utk.edu)

Catherine Shteynberg (865-974-6921, cshteynb@utk.edu)

They want the school’s new kitchen garden to be a model for the community and a training ground for early childhood educators on gardening with young children and families.

The school is inviting the community to a garden party from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 16, at 1206 White Avenue.

The Early Learning Center provides full-day early education programs for families of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners. It also is a research and practice laboratory for UT students and faculty.

“We have been working with our own menu for the last couple of years trying to move back to more whole foods and off processed foods as much as possible,” said Kathy Kidd, a program director at the learning center and a lecturer in the UT Department of Child and Family Studies. “Our chef, George Lovell, is working to continually improve the quality of our offerings for the children.”

The students are gaining gardening experience as they tend to veggies and herbs in their pizza garden, which includes tomatoes, basil, onions, green peppers, oregano, and mushrooms.

They’re also growing beans, artichokes, eggplants, and a variety of tomatoes, herbs, and lettuces.

“The children can cut the herbs and experience that smell,” Kidd said. “What they grow will be incorporated into their menu.”

The kitchen garden was funded through a $15,000 grant from the UT Alliance of Women Philanthropists. The money is being used for extensive landscaping and repurposing a previously underused area of the center’s grounds for the garden, Kidd said.

To learn more about the UT Early Learning Center, visit the website.

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CONTACT:

Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)

Kathy Kidd (865-946-4093, kkidd@utk.edu)

“It was confirmation that architecture was for me,” she said. “The camp exposed me to UT’s space and curriculum, so I felt comfortable here as a freshman.”

Cagle and nine other former campers graduated this weekend from the UT College of Architecture and Design. They are among the students who attended the very first Design Matters camp after it was established in 2008.

The week-long overnight summer camp gives high school students the opportunity to learn innovation and invention skills. It also gives them an understanding of how design impacts invention and human experience. They gain an in-depth look at life as a university student.

This year’s camp will be June 16 through 21.

Besides Cagle, other former campers and now newly minted UT alumni are Forrest Reynolds, a dual major in engineering and architecture, who was a central designer of the UT Haiti Project; Emily Barnett and Caroline McDonald of the Interior Design Program; Ashlynne Camuti, Leslie Hood, Brandon McCloy, Kirsten Reed, and Frannie Robinson of the School of Architecture; and Sarah Howell, a dual major in architecture and engineering.

“These students represent some of the best of our graduating class,” said Matt Hall, an associate professor of architecture and program director of Design Matters. “The camp encourages imagination, innovation, and collaboration to solve problems. It promotes students to transform their ideas into spaces and products that affect people’s everyday lives.”

Cagle, who plans to attend a two-year Bible college in California and then eventually work as an architect, noted that the students in her class were instrumental in her positive experience at UT.

“We supported one another through good times and bad,” she said. “The community we had here is unparalleled.”

To learn more about the Design Matters Camp, visit the College of Architecture and Design’s website.

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C O N T A C T:

Kiki Roeder (865-974-6713, kroeder@utk.edu)

Lola Alapo (865-974-3993, lalapo@utk.edu)

Commencement ceremonies begin Wednesday and continue through Saturday. King will participate in the College of Business Administration commencement ceremonies on May 10. Her bachelor’s degree is in human resources.

As an eighteen-year-old freshman, King found out she was pregnant. She resolved to finish her degree while raising her child as a single mother.

Her son, Grant, who turns three in August, “has been a huge blessing to me and my family,” King said.

Yet, his unexpected arrival was a tough assignment for a young college student.

Grant was born a week before King began her sophomore year. Rather than withdraw from school, King dropped from a full course load to taking only two classes during the fall semester.

King returned to full-time status the next spring and has taken classes every summer term so she could graduate in four years. Beyond managing a full course load and raising a child, King accepted an internship with DeRoyal Industries during her junior year. Throughout her senior year she interned at Oak Ridge Associated Universities in addition to having a part-time job.

Though King is a single parent, she’s quick to acknowledge the support she’s received. Her parents care for Grant during the day, and Grant’s father, who also graduated from UT this spring, and his family remain involved in Grant’s life.

King is also the recipient of the Moll Anderson Endowed Scholarship for single parents pursuing business degrees. The endowment was established in 2010 by author, lifestyle consultant, and television host Moll Anderson, who is married to UT Trustee Charlie Anderson, president and chief executive officer of Anderson Media Corp.

“Mrs. Anderson’s generosity has eased my financial burden, allowing me to better focus on my son and my studies,” King said.

While King wants to impart valuable lessons to her son, his presence also has taught her a thing or two.

“My multitasking skills have grown tremendously,” she said. “I have to take advantage of every available moment to study.” Procrastination is no longer an option; she said she begins preparing for exams at least two weeks in advance.

King said Grant also has given her a new perspective on life.

“Being a mother changed my attitude about what’s important,” King said. “I’m working to earn the best grades I can so that I can get a great job and provide for my son.”

Since Grant’s birth, King has maintained an impressive 3.7 GPA.

“Although a 4.0 GPA from UT would have been terrific, I’m extremely proud of my accomplishments,” she said, “I would much rather be thought of as a phenomenal mother than being a straight-A student.”

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CONTACT:

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakely@utk.edu)

Did you know that UT has a place to find out your exact body fat percentage, resting metabolic testing, and lactate threshold? Brian Rider, a graduate assistant at the UT Center for Physical Activity and Health, talks about the center’s big idea of helping people in Knoxville get healthy and active. For more information, visit the center’s website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOAhXNKHKJs

Langley will address the college’s more than 300 graduates and their families at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, in Thompson-Boling Assembly Center and Arena.

“As one of the top journalists of her generation, Monica Langley has interviewed many of the richest and most powerful people in the world,” said CCI Dean Mike Wirth. “Her remarkable career has been characterized by honesty, integrity, and an extraordinary ability to both get and tell the story. We are very fortunate to have Ms. Langley as our commencement speaker and know that the wisdom and advice she shares will provide our graduates with an inspirational send-off as they leave UT to pursue professional careers.”

Langley was managing editor of the Daily Beacon while at UT. She graduated in 1980 with highest honors in journalism and was named a Torchbearer.

Langley, who has worked at the Journal for twenty-five years, is the newspaper’s preeminent writer of the page-one profile, particularly of CEOs, billionaires, presidential candidates, and key newsmakers. She also provides behind-the-scenes narratives of corporate dramas and breaks exclusive news about high-profile companies such as General Motors, Boeing, and JP Morgan Chase.

An honors graduate of Georgetown University’s law school, Langley has been an adjunct professor of journalism at Columbia University and of First Amendment law at Georgetown University Law Center. Also a member of the bars of the US Supreme Court, District of Columbia, and Tennessee, she was a corporate lawyer for several years.

She is the author of Tearing Down the Walls: How Sandy Weill Fought His Way to the Top of the Financial World… and Then Nearly Lost It All, a best seller about the CEO of Citigroup.

In 2002, Langley received the College of Communication and Information’s highest honor, the Donald G. Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award. In 2009, New York Women in Communications presented her with a Matrix Award, recognizing her as one of the nation’s most exceptional women in media and the arts.

Video of Langley’s address will be archived here.

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CONTACT:

Charles Primm (865-974-5180, primmc@utk.edu)

Formichella is an authority on the music of Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 – 1916) and will perform Tosti’s Italian salon music. Both she and the composer are from the same region – Gulianova, Italy. Formichella is nationally renowned in her country, and is currently a faculty member of the Conservatory L. D’Annunzio of Pescara, Italy. For more info, visit her website.

Formichella also will premiere a new work entitled Vorrei, written by assistant professor Brendan McConville, which he describes as “a re-setting of a Tosti work by the same name,” and “a modern homage to 19th century Italian salon music.”

The café, sponsored by Sysco Foods, operates from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays in the UT Visitors Center, 2712 Neyland Drive. Each luncheon typically consists of an intermezzo or small appetizer, salad or soup, entrée, and dessert. 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, see Marcia Johnson in the Jessie Harris Building, Room 110, call 865-974-6645, or e-mail rhtm@utk.edu.

The French and Japanese fusion menu is:

Salad: Japanese nicoise salad with miso dressing (lettuce, nicoise olives, sesame haricots verts, concasse tomatoes, tofu, and wasabi seared tuna)

Appetizer: French ratatouille terrine with sesame ponzu sauce, garnished with seaweed salad

Entree: Snapper en papillote with fresh ginger, lemongrass, and assorted vegetables served with rice

Dessert: Sesame honey cream puff with bean paste cream

The last lunch of the semester is on May 2 and will feature a fusion of Spanish and Italian cuisine.

The luncheons are produced through a collaboration of HRT 445 (the Advanced Food Production and Service Management class), the UT Culinary Institute, and the Pellissippi Culinary Institute.

Students enrolled in the UT course will work as general managers, dining room attendants, assistant kitchen managers, dining room managers, and dining room service employees. They will be responsible for the execution of the dining experience, managing staff, menu planning, food preparation, cooking, cost analysis, service during meal time, marketing of the event, and customer satisfaction activities.

Pellissippi State students will do most of the food preparation and will assist with dining room responsibilities.

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C O N T A C T :

Marcia Johnson (for tickets): (865-974-6645, rhtm@utk.edu)

Christine Copelan (ccopela7@utk.edu)

“People loved the idea. The response has been overwhelming,” said Gary Peacock, director of Campus Renewal Ministries’ Campus House of Prayer at UT, who had seen similar projects at other campuses around the country. Peacock reached out to UT’s campus ministries and asked each to submit information for one day.

Pray UT is thirty-one days long, although it’s not dated so it can be used any time.

Each day features a prayer, a scripture passage, a description of the organization that submitted it, and a group of people at the university to specifically pray for. The groups range from faculty and staff to transfer students and students with disabilities, to support staff and the Board of Regents.

Campus Renewal formatted each entry and designed hard-copy and PDF versions. They also hope to turn the book into a mobile app.

The book has been distributed to the participating campus ministries and they are using it this month. Several churches in the Knoxville area are also using the book, and Campus Renewal continues to receive requests for copies.

Peacock said he was amazed by how the idea took off.

“It happened really fast,” and the contributing organizations are “across the board, from Roman Catholics to Baptists,” Peacock said. Within two weeks, the book was put together and enough money was raised to publish it.

“It’s groundbreaking,” Peacock said. “It’s the largest collaborative faith project we’ve done at UT.”

Anyone who would like a free copy can e-mail utk@campusrenewal.org or stop by the Campus House of Prayer, 1915 Lake Avenue, to pick up a hard copy.

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C O N T A C T :

Holly Gary (865-974-2225, hgary@utk.edu)

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, amy.blakely@tennessee.edu)

Water mains are being replaced along the west end of Volunteer Boulevard, Lake Avenue, Terrace Avenue, and Caledonia Avenue as well as several side streets in the area.

Repairs are expected to be completed by November. Until the work is finished, drivers should expect delays when traveling through the area. Parking lots for students, faculty, and staff may be temporarily closed while the work is ongoing, but the university will provide advance notice in the case of a temporary closure.

For more information on campus projects, visit the Cone Zone at conezone.utk.edu.

A project completed by students during the High School Arts Academy.

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.

Student participants enrolled in a workshop of their choice: ceramics, layered books, video, watercolor, photo/collage, printmaking, drawing, or improv design. All workshops were taught by School of Art professors.

In addition to the workshops, participants also viewed the current UT student exhibit in the Ewing Gallery, and at the end of the day, they visited the other workshops to see their peers’ creations.

Although spring break in several public school systems hindered attendance, Marcia Goldenstein, the academy’s organizer and a professor in the School of Art, considered this year’s academy a hit.

A student works on a water color portrait during the academy.

“The event was such a success,” Goldenstein said. “Many of high school teachers also came to the academy, and their comments about how valuable the UT High School Arts Academy is for their students means the world to us.”

Area high schools that participated in the 2013 UT High School Arts Academy included Anderson County High School, Clinton High School, and Oak Ridge High School in Anderson County; Heritage High School in Blount County; Elizabethton High School in Carter County; Chuckey-Doak High School, North Greene High School, and West Greene High School in Greene County; Morristown East High School in Hamblen County; Collegedale Academy in Hamilton County; Bearden High School, Carter High School, Central High School, Farragut High School, Gibbs High School, Halls High School, Hardin Valley Academy, L&N STEM Academy, Knoxville Catholic High School, Powell High School, Tennessee School for the Deaf, Webb School of Knoxville, and West High School in Knox County; Greenback High School and Lenoir City High School in Loudon County; Kings Academy and Sevier County High School in Sevier County; Sullivan Central High School in Sullivan County; Unicoi County High School in Unicoi County; and David Crockett High School in Washington County.

The performance, directed by Dennis E. Perkins, is free and open to the public, and Hoffmann will be available afterward to discuss his work.

Derived from Hoffmann’s personal experiences in the Holocaust, Something That Belongs to You follows the struggles of an eighty-one-year-old Jewish woman dealing with the haunting memories of World War II while living in 1992 Philadelphia with her son’s family.

The production is sponsored by the UT College Scholars Program and the East Tennessee section of the American Chemical Society.

Hoffmann is the Frank T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and a chemistry professor emeritus at Cornell University. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981. Along with a distinguished career as a scientist, Hoffmann is a poet, playwright, essayist, and science philosopher. Something That Belongs to You is his most recent play.

For more information about Hoffmann, visit his website.

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C O N T A C T :

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, ablakely@utk.edu)

Christine Copelan (865-974-2225, ccopela7@utk.edu)

The paper—entitled “Base-load Electricity from Natural Gas and Nuclear Power: The Role of Federal and State Policy”—is based on a symposium held at the Baker Center in September 2012.

Sponsored by the Baker Center, Tennessee Valley Authority, America’s National Gas Alliance, and Spectra Energy Corporation, the symposium featured eighteen nationally and regionally known speakers and attracted participants from the electric utility industry, regulatory agencies, research institutions, and other nongovernmental organizations. The symposium was organized by Baker Center fellow Mary English and a team of academic, business, and government professionals. English, who is retired from UT’s Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, has a doctorate in sociology from UT, a master’s degree in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts, and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University.

As highlighted in the white paper authored by English, natural gas and nuclear power—the two dominant alternatives to coal—have dramatically different pros and cons. These pros and cons are shaped by environmental, health, safety, and security factors as well as technological and economic factors. Many of these factors are, in turn, shaped by current and prospective federal and state policies.

A copy of the paper is available on the Baker Center website.

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C O N T A C T :

Nissa Dahlin-Brown (865-974-8681, nissa@utk.edu)

Nicole Gross

Michael Gross

UT alumni and former members of Tennessee’s swimming and diving team Michael and Nicole (Brannock) Gross were among those injured in the attack on Monday’s Boston Marathon. Dr. Ralph Harvey, an associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine, also witnessed the incident.

The Grosses were near the race’s finish line waiting for Nicole’s mother to complete the marathon when the two bombs exploded. Nicole suffered two broken legs and has had multiple surgeries. Michael sustained burns and cuts. Nicole’s sister Erika was also severely injured in the explosion.

Nicole swam for the Lady Vols from 1999 to 2002. She graduated in 2003 with a degree in community health education. Michael swam for the Vols from 1998 to 2002. He graduated in 2003 with a degree in sociology. The couple lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Harvey ran the marathon and had crossed the finish line about fifteen minutes before he saw the explosions from a few hundred yards away. At first, he said, he thought it was a transformer exploding.

Ralph Harvey

“The second explosion was larger,” he said. “I wasn’t in any danger, but I could see the police and EMTs reacting immediately.”

After the explosions, Harvey and other runners were bused back to the race’s starting point to help clear the finish area. An avid runner, Harvey was running his fifth Boston Marathon.

“This immediately turned a beautiful event into an ugly event with so much horrible pain and loss,” he said. “This is my favorite marathon because of the crowd support. When you’re running the Boston Marathon, you feel like you’re part of history. It’s an honor to be able to run it.”

With more than 23,000 runners in this year’s marathon, there are bound to be more Tennessee connections. The university has not heard of any current students who were at the race. If you were affected by the attacks, please e-mail utnews@utk.edu.

She will be discussing some of the mission’s findings at the Science Forum on April 19.

The Science Forum is a weekly brown-bag lunch series that allows professors and area scientists to discuss their research with the general public in a conversational presentation.

The weekly presentations begin at noon on Fridays in Room C-D of Thompson-Boling Arena. Attendees can bring lunch or purchase it at the arena. Each presentation is forty minutes long and is followed by a question-and-answer session. Science Forum presentations are free and open to the public.

NASA has been studying Titan, Saturn’s largest satellite, since 2004. Although it is ten times farther from the sun than Earth and about 200 degrees Kelvin colder, Titan’s surface is very similar to Earth’s but composed of very different materials.

Pictures and data from Titan show windblown dunes covering about 20 percent of the moon’s surface. They are similar to sand dunes on Earth but are made of carbon-rich material.

Titan also has many drainage networks, similar to river systems on Earth. Instead of being formed by water, they were formed by liquid hydrocarbon.

Burr studies data after it is released by NASA. She said she is excited about the findings.

“There’s another planetary body—another world—that looks amazingly like Earth, but formed in very different materials,” she said. “It’s really fascinating.”

The last Science Forum presentation of the semester will be April 26 and will feature Joan Markel, curator of Civil War exhibits at the McClung Museum, presenting “Digging into Our Civil War Past.”

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C O N T A C T :

Holly Gary (865-974-2225, hgary@utk.edu)

Amy Blakely (865-974-5034, amy.blakely@tennessee.edu)