News from the Colleges
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources
- Professor C.A. Speer and a team of researchers have developed a test for Johne’s disease, a contagious, chronic and fatal intestinal disease of ruminants
- Associate Professor Bonnie Ownley was awarded the Marian Moffett Unsung Hero Award
- Dr. George Grandle has been appointed interim head of the Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science
- The Mid-South Center for Native Grassland Management in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries received $50,000 from the Alcoa Foundation to fund environmental stewardship research and education in Blount and Knox counties
- The Tennessee Forest Products Center co-sponsored the 2006 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry in Atlanta, focusing on nanoscience and engineering and its role in advancing wood products, pulp, and paper
- Andrew Petty, a senior in agricultural economics and business, won the 18th Annual Collegiate Discussion Meet
- Jenny Clement, a graduate student in plant sciences, won the research poster contest at the Beltwide Cotton Conference
- Beverly Robinson, an administrative services assistant in CASNR and the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, retired in February after more than 38 years
- Tera Bunch, an agricultural science and education major, was honored as top graduate at CASNR’s commencement and won the Spring 2006 student award from Gamma Sigma Delta, the agricultural honor society
College of Arts and Sciences
- Art: Kelley Walker, ’92, is included in the Whitney Biennial, widely acknowledged as the most prestigious survey exhibition of contemporary American art
- Chemistry: Chemistry graduate student Scott Borella was selected as an Oak Ridge Associated Universities representative to the annual Lindau meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. He is one of 60 students chosen nationwide
- Earth and Planetary Sciences: Professors Sally Horn and Ken Orvis have received a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study climate shifts or events that may have had significant impacts on prehistoric cultures
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Professors Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper’s research into the effects of global climate change on the ecosystem of the Bering Sea garnered national attention, including the Los Angeles Times, the BBC and National Public Radio
- Modern Foreign Languages: The German Studies program announced the Reinhold and Katherine Nordsieck Memorial Endowment of approximately $200,000 for scholarships and an endowment for future German students
- Music: The School of Music recently received the largest gift in its history, $10.5 million from Jim and Natalie Haslam to be used to renovate the music building
- Physics: More than 900 physicists came to Knoxville in May for the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Meeting. Organized by UT physicists Bob Compton and Joe Macek, along with David Schultz of ORNL, DAMOP included a workshop for Tennessee teachers, a public symposium with Nobel laureates, and a lecture on the physics of football. Gov. Phil Bredesen, who holds a physics degree from Harvard, opened the meeting.
- Audiology and Speech Pathology: The 2006 Sol Adler Memorial Conference was held on March 6
- English: Professor Janet Atwill was awarded a year-long NEH fellowship for her project "Art, Imitation and Exemplarity: The Role of Character in Greek Rhetorical Training" and will spend fall semester as a fellow at the University of Iowa Obermann Humanities Center and Visiting Scholar in the Project on the Rhetoric of Inquiry
- History: Earning prestigious fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year were Catherine Higgs, who received the American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship for Spring 2006; Michael Kulikowski, who spent the academic year as a Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Vejas Liulevicius, who won a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- Marco Institute: The Institute hosted its fifth annual symposium, "The Book of Travels: Genre, Ethnology, and Pilgrimage, 1250-1650," featuring research by leading scholars from Europe, Canada and the U.S.
- Philosophy: The Department of Philosophy recently hosted leading bioethicists and business ethicists at the conference, "Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine," which was chaired by Assistant Professor Denis Arnold
- Political Science: Michael R. Fitzgerald, chair of the American studies program, developed and taught a companion seminar to coincide with the British-American conference sponsored by UT's Howard Baker Center for Public Policy and the Churchill Archives Centre at Cambridge University in England
- Religious Studies: Professor Rosalind I. J. Hackett delivered the opening address on media and religion at the II International Conference on Religion, Religiosities and Culture in Dourados, Brazil, in April
- Sociology: The Global Studies IDP, directed by Jon Shefner and housed in the Department of Sociology, the College of Law and the Dpartment of Sociology worked with approximately 20 other UT entities to bring a multi-disciplinary conference on immigration to UT
Architecture and Design
- Professor Marleen K. Davis was named a fellow of the American Institute of Architects
- Associate Professor Charles A. Debelius’ work was chosen for a show at the Knoxville Museum of Art
- Lecturer Diane Fox had two photos chosen for the Southeastern College Art Conference’s Nashville exhibit
- Professors J. Stanley Rabun and Josette Rabun received Heritage Foundation Lifetime Achievement Awards
- Lecturers Theodore Shelton and Tricia A. Stuth received the 2006 Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects East Tennessee Chapter
- Lecturer Frank Sparkman received the Gold Medal Award from the American Institute of Architects, East Tennessee.
- R. Mark DeKay and Tracy Walker Moir-McClean, associate professors of architecture, won a grant from the Boston Society of Architects for their proposal "Patterns of Green Infrastructure: Tools for Urban Design"
- At the Chancellor's Honors Banquet, John Hudgison, fifth-year architecture student, was honored for extraordinary campus leadership and service; George Dodds, associate professor of architecture, received the Cox Professorship; and four students were recognized with academic achievement awards and one for professional promise
College of Business Administration
- Professor Mandyam Srinivasan was on the team that won the Franz Edelman Award for helping the military radically streamline repairs on the C-5 transport plane
- Joseph Carcello, Corporate Governance Center co-founder, was named for the third time as one of America’s most influential business people by Business Finance magazine
- Professor John T. Mentzer helped ring the Opening Bell at the New York Stock Exchange on the day Stage Stores began trading on the NYSE. Mentzer is on Stage’s board of directors.
- Supply Chain Management Review, the industry’s most respected executive-oriented publication, ranks the college's supply chain management/logistics program No. 2 in the nation
- Public Accounting Report ranks UT's MBA program 16th and the undergraduate program 17th among the 170 U.S. schools with accredited accounting programs. PAR ranks the doctoral accounting program in the top 25 among public universities
- Associate Dean of Academic Programs Sarah Gardial will attend the Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration program at Bryn Mawr College this summer. One woman from UT is chosen annually for this designation
- Two Physician Executive MBA alumni, Eneida Roldan and Herman Gray, have been named hospital presidents
Communication and Information
- John Noble Wilford, ‘55, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for the New York Times, won this year’s alumni award
- Carol Tenopir, interim director of research for the college, has received the National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services’ Miles Conrad Award
- Martha Earl, ’85, reference coordinator at the UT Preston Medical Library in Knoxville, has received the School of Information Science’s Alumni Board’s 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award
- The first Journalism and Electronic Media Week, April 19-21, featured prominent alumni Candy Reid, '02, who anchors "World Sport" on CNN International, and John Noble Wilford, '55, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter and winner of this year's Alumni Award
- Time magazine senior science writer Michael Lemonick delivered the 14th annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture in April
- Gene Wojciechowski,'79, senior writer for "ESPN The Magazine" spoke on campus in February
- Dr. Lawrence W. Lichty, a Northwestern University professor who served as historical consultant for the movie "Good Night, and Good Luck," spoke at the Research Symposium in February
- Dwayne Summar, '61, has received the Patrick Jackson Award for Distinguished Service to the Public Relations Society of America
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
- Professor Richard Allington, president of the International Reading Association, spoke at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago
- Assistant Professor John Antun has been elected president of the Southeast Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education
- Craig Wrisberg is president of the Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology
- Dean Bob Rider was elected to the board of trustees for the Board of Human Sciences, a division of the National Association of State University and Land Grant Colleges
- Tennessee on the Move partnered with Kids on the Block to develop new puppets and new scripts to address childhood obesity
- At the 2006 Chancellor’s Honors Banquet, Patricia Davis-Wiley, professor of world languages and English as a second language, received the L.R. Hesler Award for outstanding teaching and service; John Peters, professor of educational psychology and counseling, received an Excellence in Teaching Award; Claudia Melear, associate professor in the department of theory and practice in teacher education, received a Women of Achievement Award; Laura Dunn Jolly, professor of retail, hospitality and tourism management, received an extraordinary service award for chairing the undergraduate council
College of Engineering
- Engineering alumni and CTI founders Michael Crabtree, Terry Douglass, Ron Nutt and Kelly Milam donated $1 million to fund a new CTI Chair of Excellence
- The new $4 million Scintillation Materials Research Center opened in April
- Eight faculty members were named COE Research Fellows: Benjamin J. Blalock, David J. Keffer, Chris D. Cox, J. Wesley Hines, Narendra B. Dahotre, Hahn Choo, Philip D. Rack, and Richard D. Komistek
- George Pharr has been appointed head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- William Hamel has been appointed head of the Department of Medical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering
- The new $4 million Scintillation Materials Research Center opened in April. The Center, with major support from Siemens Medical Solutions Medical Imaging, will be a world-class facility in the field
- Eight faculty members were named COE Research Fellows. The 2006 awards were presented to Benjamin J. Blalock, David J. Keffer, Chris D. Cox, J. Wesley Hines, Narendra B. Dahotre, Hahn Choo, Philip D. Rack and Richard D. Komistek. The awards are presented to faculty members with exceptional records of research activity, and whose efforts clearly contribute to the overall mission of the college
College of Law
- California Congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke at Julian Blackshear Scholarship Banquet sponsored by the Black Law Student Association
- The law firm of Kramer Rayson LLP has endowed two scholarships, one for a black law student with financial need and the other for a Tennessee resident with financial need
- The Bettye B. Lewis Career Center, named in honor of the first president of the Tennessee Bar Auxiliary, was dedicated in April
- The Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy hosted its second annual symposium, "The Tennessee Supreme Court's Impact on Law & Policy," in April and honored retiring justices E. Riley Anderson, Adolpho A. Birch Jr., and Frank F. Drowota III, who attended
Nursing
- The graduate program in Homeland Security Nursing, the first in the nation, began accepting students in the fall
- Dr. John Preston, coordinator of the nurse anesthesia concentration in the master’s program, was appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen to serve on the Tennessee Board of Nursing until 2009
- Dr. Tami Wyatt, assistant professor, received the 2006 GlaxoSmithKline Research Fellowship for Asthma Education
- Undergraduate students, accompanied by faculty members Karen Lasater and Bonnie Callen, spent spring break in Panama and Costa Rica providing health care services
- Another student group, accompanied by faculty members Carole Myers and Maureen Nalle, traveled to Red Bird Mission in Beverly, Ky., to work with residents
- Dr. Mary Gunther received the 2005 College of Nursing Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award
- Dr. Jan Lee, professor and associate dean for academic affairs, completed the HERS Management Institute, a fellowship for women in academic leadership positions
- Dr. Lee also was chosen to lead UT's Global Advisory Council to oversee the implementation and evaluation of Ready for the World, the campus-wide intercultural and international awareness initiative
- Drs. Susan Speraw and Jo Wade received the best overall Story Board Award at the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality in Orlando
- Drs. Dava Shoffner and Maureen Nalle conducted the Tennessee Leadership Institute for Nursing Excellence
- Drs. Sandra Thomas, Marian Roman, Jan Witucki Brown, Mary Gunther and Susan Speraw were presenters at a qualitative research conference in The Netherlands
- Dr. Bonnie Callen presented a paper at the International Nursing Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
College of Social Work
- Professor Emeritus Hisashi Hirayama has established an endowed graduate fellowship for a master’s student at the Memphis campus
- Professor John Orme has been appointed to the editorial board of the 20th edition of The Encyclopedia of Social Work
- Dr. Sherry Cummings has been appointed acting associate dean for the Nashville campus
- Dr. Elizabeth Strand, director of UT’s Veterinary Social Work Services received the Anita Gregg Award for significant contributions toward ending family violence
- International child welfare experts Robert Blum (World Health Organization), Neil Boothby (Save the Children) and William Rowe (University of South Florida) spoke at a workshop in April
- Faculty members awarded new federal research grants are Professor John Wodarski (campus substance abuse services), Associate Professor Becky Bolen (child sexual abuse) and Associate Professor Mary Rogge (environmental justice concerns in a Chattanooga neighborhood)
- Frank Spicuzza, BSSW director, retired after 33 years at UT
- The Memphis campus of the college has moved to the UT Boling Center for Developmental Disabilities
- The college partnered with The Memphis Mentoring Partnership in October for a conference looking at the impact of mentoring programs on young people's lives
College of Veterinary Medicine
- Dr. Al Legendre, an original faculty member, won the 2006 Mark L. Morris Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award
- Dr. Greg Daniel won the 2006 Outstanding Faculty Member Award from the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association. TVMA also awarded Dr. Randy Hammon, ’82, its 2006 Distinguished Service Award and Dr. Kristi Lively, ’99, its 2006 Young Veterinarian of the Year Award
- The Department of Homeland Security has awarded the college and its partners a $2 million competitive training grant
- Bruce McNeil, director of the college’s pharmacy, will become president of the Society of Veterinary Hospital Pharmacists in June
- With this year's class, the college has graduated 1,591 veterinarians since it was created in 1974
- The college is one of 12 members in the new National Cancer Institute (NCI) Comparative Oncology Trial Consortium and is one of four veterinary colleges involved in NCI’s first animal clinical trial
- Dr. Mei-Zhen Cui received the Chancellor’s Honors Award for Research and Creative Achievement
- Fourth-year students Stacey Leonatti and Kara Watson received the Chancellor’s Professional Promise Awards