Category archive for ‘UT Spotlight’ 
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Big Idea: UT Staff Member Works for Safer Toys
Cat Wilt wants to make toys healthier, safer, and more environmentally-friendly. The director of the Center for Clean Products, Wilt was instrumental in developing North America's first and only third-party... -
Big Idea: Senior Organizes Fashion Show to Help Haiti
Katie Riley's big idea has translated into big help for a destitute community. In 2009, she organized "Fierce and Fancy," an event where people donated old formal dresses for a... -
What’s Your Big Idea?—Morgan Baltz
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni share big ideas that are making a difference in their world and the world around them. Morgan Baltz, a senior studying chemical and biomolecular engineering,... -
Rock On! Beloved UT Landmark Safely Moved to New Location
The Rock, a beloved landmark and venue for student self-expression on the UT Knoxville campus, is now in its new location. On Wednesday, the Rock was moved about 275 feet... -
Agriculture Campus is Switching its Thinking
For Joseph DiPietro, UT vice president for agriculture, being a good steward of the environment comes... -
Reshaping the Image of Booker T. Washington
In this article in the Chronicle Review, the book-review companion to the Chronicle of Higher Education, UT Knoxville history professor Robert J. Norrell discusses his book Up from History: The... -
Tenopir Studies the Digital Age
For someone so steeped in the digital age, it's ironic that School of Information Sciences Professor Carol Tenopir, a member of the inaugural class of Chancellor's Professors, has a house...
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Small Worlds – Big Results
Six hundred of UT Knoxville Chancellor's Professor George Pharr's research worlds would fit within the diameter of a human hair. But the nanoscale materials he studies now figure largely in...
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Chancellor’s Professor Sally Horn Studies Climate Change
UT Biogeography Professor Sally Horn takes long, arduous trips back through time—not in a space capsule but on a wobbly Huck Finn type of raft on remote Costa Rican lakes....
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Professor Glisson Combines Passion and Research to Help At Risk Children and Young Adults
UT Chancellor's Professor Charles Glisson brings passion and science to a critical task: helping at-risk children and young adults. As a prodigious researcher, Glisson gained national recognition for helping human...