Category archive for ‘Featured Story’ 
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A Life of Sound and Silence
The Rachel Schlafer-Parton who is a musician and vocalist has quite a following around East Tennessee. Her world is filled with the sounds of musical instruments and singing voices. But,...
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Where Activism Meets Architecture
Professor David Fox believes in taking the active approach to solving problems. He says, "Homeowner equity is a great bootstrap for getting people out of poverty." He's equally passionate about...
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Hearts and Heads
Lee Meadows Jantz began UT as a business major, but the vagaries of an accounting class resulted in her becoming an anthropology major. Then, a love of bones, along with...
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Hands of a Stonemason, Heart of a Healer
Lifting heavy stones to build a long fence on his property, Alan Solomon could be any gentleman farmer, albeit an exceptionally fit one for his age. But this weekend portrait...
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Papke is Ready for the World
Mary Papke says, "everything in my life has been an incredible story." From the concentration and forced labor camps of World War II to a new start in America, Papke's...
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Feller Balances Work, Broader Interests
If you spot a guy wearing red Converse sneakers and rumpled corduroy pants as you're walking across the campus, it's likely to be Dan Feller, director of the Papers of...
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Rediscovering James Agee’s Real Voice
You may think you've read Knoxville-born James Agee's "A Death in the Family," but the version available in bookstores since it was published in 1957 is not the one Agee...
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Helping Hand to Haiti
Nursing professor Susan Speraw has spent most of her career so far working with the underserved - helping immigrants, refugees, migrant workers and individuals with developmental disorders. "My work has...
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Crabtree, UT Lead National Accountability Initiative
Chancellor Loren Crabtree and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are among the leaders of a new national effort to strengthen accountability and transparency among all public colleges and universities.
The...
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Prof pedals 765-mile ‘commute’
UT was never far from Alex Miller's mind as he participated in Europe's premier amateur ultra-endurance bicycling event last...