Category archive for ‘UT Spotlight’ 
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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...
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Joy DeSensi Is a Good Sport
Chancellor's Professor Joy DeSensi found her passions early in life: music and sports. She started out to be a classical pianist and still plays the 1931 piano given to her...
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Flipping the Switch
When UT Knoxville launched the Switch Your Thinking campaign, it set an ambitious goal of reducing energy use by 10 percent. Meeting that goal will take effort and a watchful...
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Don’t Be an April Fool!
Don't let your lack of knowledge about UT legends make you a target of April Fools' jokes. Bone up on UT lore and avoid getting caught by any of the...