Tag archive for ‘College of Arts and Sciences’
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April 18, 2013
The twelfth annual High School Arts Academy at UT gave eighty students from thirty East Tennessee schools an opportunity to study visual arts in a university setting last month. Students...Read More »
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April 18, 2013
From developing cheap biofuels to determining when people became monogamous, the research of some UT graduate students has gotten a boost from the National Science Foundation. Five students have received...Read More »
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April 17, 2013
Chemistry Professor Jeffrey Kovac has been honored for his contributions to STEM education by serving as director of the Tennessee Governor’s Schools for Sciences and Engineering and the Tennessee Science...Read More »
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April 17, 2013
Devon Burr, assistant professor of earth and planetary science, has been publishing papers about NASA's mission to Titan, a moon of Saturn, since 2006. She will be discussing some of...Read More »
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April 15, 2013
The Knoxville News Sentinel profiles the mass grave research project being conducted the Forensic Anthropology Center. For the next three years, scientists will monitor fresh burial sites made at the...Read More »
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April 10, 2013
Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, lecturer in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, helped make an interesting discovery in a dinosaur fossil earlier this year. She will be discussing her research at...Read More »
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April 8, 2013
Stefan Spanier, an associate professor of physics and expert in accelerator-based particle physics, shares his insight into the hunt for the Higgs boson, also known as the "God" particle. Spanier...Read More »
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April 8, 2013
Research by Sean Doody in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology was featured in Science. The research has found that unborn lizards can erupt from their eggs days early...Read More »
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April 1, 2013
Research by Alison Boyer, a research assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, and an international team studied the extinction rates of nonperching land birds in the Pacific Islands from...Read More »
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March 27, 2013
Beneath the ocean floor is a desolate place with no oxygen and sunlight. Yet microbes have thrived in this environment for millions of years. A study led by Karen Lloyd,...Read More »