Category archive for ‘In The News’ 
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Summitt Named One of America’s Best Leaders
Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt can add yet another jewel to her crown that includes seven NCAA national championships and the title of winningest coach in college basketball history....
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Forensic experts swap tips from the field
This story in the Deseret Morning News on a gathering of forensic experts in Salt Lake City mentions UT's Anthropological Research Facility, otherwise known as The Body Farm, as well...
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Comet draws scientific, amateur interest
This Associated Press story, reprinted in Yahoo! News, features Paul Lewis, director of astronomy outreach at UT, discussing the sighting of Comet 17P/Holmes as the object was exploding in orbit...
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Phenotype to sell in China
This News Sentinel story on an official Tennessee state trade mission to China refers to a recent cooperative food safety project between the UT College of Veterinary Medicine and the...
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Calculating move will put computer at top of heap
UT Distinguished Professor Jack Dongarra is quoted in this Houston Chronicle story about the latest IBM supercomputer being developed at the Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Illinois. Dongarra says comparing...
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Tennessee to Construct Ethanol Refinery
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on UT's plans to construct an ethanol refinery to study biofuels, and the state's incentives to farmers to produce switchgrass for the...
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Watch Your Steps
UT exercise, sport and leisure studies professor Dixie L. Thompson is quoted in the July issue of Money magazine praising the merits of using a pedometer to get motivated to...
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Infectious Foie Gras?
A study by UT Graduate School of Medicine professor Alan Solomon has prompted media coverage and discussion about foie gras, a fatty delicacy made from over-enlarged duck or goose liver....
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Holocaust exhibit travels to Poland
This News Sentinel article describes "Living On," an exhibit for which Robert Heller, an associate professor in the UT School of Journalism and Electronic Media, photographed Holocaust survivors and liberators....
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‘Jaguar’ 2nd Fastest Supercomputer
This Associated Press story on Forbes.com announces that the "Jaguar," a supercomputer developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, holds the position of world's second-fastest supercomputer on the most recent...