Category archive for ‘In The News’ 
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Classes Pack A Year’s Worth of Foreign Language in Week
This story details unconventional methods for teaching different languages to children and adults. Kathryn Atkins-Roberson, a lecturer in the University of Tennessee's Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, explains...
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Higher Ed Center Gets $1.5 Million Federal Grant
This article about recently acquired funding for the new Kingsport Center for Higher Education mentions the University of Tennessee's participation in the project. UT will join other area higher-education institutions...
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Agee Unfettered
A review of University of Tennessee English professor Michael A. Lofaro's restoration of the James Agee novel "A Death in the Family" appears in the June 15 issue of The...
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Soothing Solutions for Arthritis
This article about arthritis in dogs quotes Darryl Millis, professor of orthopedic surgery in the University of Tennessee's College of Veterinary Medicine, who explains how the disease occurs and...
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U.S. Supercomputer Sets Speed Record
This story about a new U.S. military supercomputer quotes Jack Dongarra, distinguished professor at the University of Tennessee's Center for Information Technology and Research. Dongarra compares the computer's petaflop...
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AP Impact: Pet projects still abound in Congress
In this AP article about the continuing Congressional practice of legislating funds for special-interest "pork" projects, University of Tennessee's Anthony Nownes, an associate professor of political science, remarks upon the...
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Women Vital to National Development
In this article Amadou Sall, a lecturer in the University of Tennessee's African Studies program, notes that the positive roles women play in the development of Ghana help widen students'...
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High Food Prices
Daryll Ray, University of Tennessee professor of agricultural economics, is featured in this recent episode of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight." Ray observes that the rising costs of food production...
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What Is a Green-Collar Job, Exactly?
This article, about the creation of "green-collar" jobs, cites a study from the RAND Corporation and the University of Tennessee that predicts the creation of 5 million new green jobs...
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Blind Win Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
Otis Stephens, a blind professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, is quoted in this story about a recent federal court decision that may radically alter the design...