Category archive for ‘Ready for the World’ 
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September 19, 2011
Most college students spend their summers lazing around their parents’ house or taking a couple classes, but Jennifer Smith helped change the world. Smith, a senior Russian language and global...Read More »
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September 15, 2011
It’s time to begin selecting a Life of the Mind book for the 2012-13 academic year—and your help is needed. Life of the Mind is a common reading experience that...Read More »
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September 6, 2011
Public relations students at UT Knoxville are marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a book sale to benefit families affected by global...Read More »
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September 2, 2011
Renowned artist Willie Cole, who transforms ordinary objects like shoes and irons into sculptures and whose works have been exhibited at venues including the Museum of Modern Art and the...Read More »
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August 22, 2011
Five current students or recent graduates from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have received grants from the Fulbright US Student Program to work and study abroad. This is the largest...Read More »
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July 19, 2011
Danielle Gerhard, a senior in psychology at UT Knoxville, turned her imagination into reality this spring when she went to Vietnam and Cambodia to study the recent economic, political, and...Read More »
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June 29, 2011
When Kathy Herd learned that her friend of forty-five years, Melva Snapp, needed help after a tornado hit her Alabama community this spring, Herd packed her van with everything from...Read More »
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June 27, 2011
Eric Gedenk went to Germany to study post-WWII press systems, but came home having learned something else, too: There’s value in slowing down and appreciating the small things in life....Read More »
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June 20, 2011
From visiting slums to attending a wedding, Chelsea Ennis has seen some of the lowest lows and highest highs of India. "I decided to study abroad so that I could...Read More »
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May 13, 2011
Supporters of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will have the chance to play golf this weekend while raising money for scholarships benefiting African American students. The eighth annual Alex Haley...Read More »
