October 2025
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Burghardt Paper Earns Biosemiotics Award
Burghardt paper on interpreting animal behavior earns Biosemiotics Award for 2024. Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2024 Biosemiotics Achievement Award for his contribution to a special issue of Biosemiotics, titled “Jakob von Uexküll, heterophenomenology, and behavior systems I: Core ethology and Merleau-Ponty.” In the special issue, Umwelt Theory and Phenomenology, Burghardt’s winning paper compares…
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Scholar Spotlight: Anner Paldor
“I use computer models to predict the hidden underground flow of water, especially in terms of how it interacts with rivers, lakes, and the ocean.” Anner PaldorAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences My research seeks to elucidate the dynamics of groundwater interactions with surface water bodies, and to better predict how these dynamics…
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Multi-Lab Collaboration Unites Math and Biology
Researchers from math and molecular biology collaborate for a new analysis method. Photo by Erik Campos An interdisciplinary team of University of Tennessee researchers recently published in Biophysical Journal on their development of a new statistical method that improves analysis in single-molecule fluorescence experiments, which are used to study important protein complexes in cells. The…
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Call for Proposals: Digital Project Cultivator (DPC) 2025-26
UT’s Digital Project Cultivator (DPC) is soliciting applications from UT faculty members working on digital projects, especially early or transitioning projects or projects that require digital tools available at UT Knoxville and librarian expertise. The goal of DPC is to help these projects reach the next stage of development, including pursuing external grants, and to…
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Scholar Spotlight: Moussa Seck
“I introduce students to the vast histories and exciting cultural expressions of the French-speaking worlds.” Moussa SeckAssistant ProfessorDepartment of World Languages and Culture I enjoy teaching the French language and francophone studies with a focus on culture. I study the historical trajectories of the African migrant and the impacts of migration on post-independence African communities,…