Category archive for ‘News Brief’ 
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Accounting Professor Reappointed to National Advisory Group
Joseph V. Carcello, UT's Ernst & Young professor of accounting and the director of research for the UT Corporate Governance Center, was reappointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's...
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UT Knoxville Aspires to Join Nation’s Top Public Research Institutions
"In speaking at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission's first round of budget hearings, Gov. Phil Bredesen emphasized higher education as a top priority. He also spoke of his vision for...
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UT Prof Publishes Holiday Book
Michael Knight, UT associate professor of creative writing, has a new fiction book out just in time for the holidays. "The Holiday Season" is a book of two novellas published...
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Strayhorn Wins Grant to Improve Academic Performance
Terrell Strayhorn, assistant professor of higher education, adjunct assistant professor of sociology and special assistant to Provost Robert Holub, was awarded a competitive grant from the Tennessee Higher Education Commission...
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Retention Research
The Office of the Provost has announced the online release of the inaugural issue of a new campus-wide publication, Retention Research (R2). This first issue presents key findings from a...
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UT Trustee Spruell Driver to Deliver Fall Commencement Address
University of Tennessee fall graduates will receive their degrees at the commencement ceremony set for 9 a.m. Dec. 15 in the newly renovated Thompson Boling Arena & Assembly Center. UT...
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College of Engineering to Host National Science Foundation Conference
More than 1,400 top scientists and funding leaders will come to Knoxville in January for the 2008 National Science Foundation Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, sponsored by the NSF Division...
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Provost’s Forum: Our Goals and the Governor’s Priorities
"At the budget hearings in Nashville last week, Governor Phil Bredesen mentioned four priorities he has for the coming year. Each of them should be welcome news for the Knoxville...
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Smokey Tours the World
This semester, the Ready for the World program challenged faculty, staff, students and alumni to take Smokey all over the world. T-shirts sporting "Where in the World is Smokey?" have...
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President Honors Draughon for Science Mentoring
UT food microbiologist F. Ann Draughon has earned a U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Draughon, a professor of Food Science and Technology in the...