UT Knoxville Aerospace & Defense MBA alumnus Tim Gray earned the prestigious AVIATION WEEK Laureate Award for process improvements at Hill Air Force Base. The Laureate Awards were given at a ceremony held March 17 in Washington, D.C.

In an effort to expand availability and increase its level of customer service, the UT Knoxville Facilities Services department has launched the Facilities One Call program. Beginning today, members of the campus community can call one phone number, 24 hours a day, any day of the year and speak live with a Facilities Services representative. The number is 946-7777, or 6-7777 if you are calling from a campus phone.

The College of Communication and Information will hold its annual Experience Diversity Banquet, 7 p.m. Friday, April 9, at the Bearden Banquet Hall, 5806 Kingston Pike, in Knoxville. The keynote speaker is Phyllis Y. Nichols, president and CEO of the Knoxville Area Urban League. Nichols also will be presented with the 2010 College of Communication and Information Diversity Award.

Spring is officially in the air this week at the Ready for the World Café. This week's menu includes chicken cacciatore, shredded pork with roasted tomatoes and chilies, steamed salmon with lemon and olive oil, twice baked sweet potatoes, grilled asparagus with barbecue butter, sweet and bitter green salad with vinaigrette dressing and grilled vegetable gazpacho. This week's theme is spring fling, so break out your shorts and sun dresses.

In this WATE-TV story about the Massachusetts bullying case where nine students have been charged in the death of a high school freshman, Dr. David Dupper, an associate professor in the College of Social Work at UT Knoxville, talks about adults as role models for children and the effect of children who come from homes with bullying behaviors.

Microbiology seminar, 3:30 p.m. today in Alumni Memorial Building room 32. Speaker: Benjamin Van Mooy, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Topic: "Membrane lipid dynamics in the upper ocean and the promise of lipidomics for marine microbiology." Free and open to the public. For more info call 974-3441.

Archaeology lecture, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. tomorrow at McClung Museum. Speaker: Elizabeth DeCorse, UT Archaeological Research Lab and director of the Morgan Hill excavation. Topic: "Morgan Hill: Front Line of the Confederacy in the Battle of Fort Sanders." Free and open to the public. A reception will follow. This event is organized by the East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the McClung Museum. For more info call 974-2144.

10th Annual Julian Blackshear Jr. Scholarship Banquet, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at the UT Visitors Center. Sponsored by the College of Law and the Black Law Students' Association, the event's keynote speaker will be Peyton Hairston Jr., senior vice president of diversity and labor relations at Tennessee Valley Authority. Tickets are $30 and reservations are needed by April 11. For more info or to reserve a ticket, call 974-6691 or e-mail abell8@utk.edu.

The UT Social Work Office of Research and Public Service has developed Word templates for faculty and graduate students making the transition to APA 6.0 for their manuscripts and papers. View and download the templates here. For more info call 974-6015.

For a complete list of campus events, visit www.utk.edu/events