Graduating College of Arts and Sciences ambassadors share experiences as they take Vol representation into their next era. Seven members of a valuable Vol team graduate this spring, stepping forward to represent the Big Orange in their next adventurous chapter. College of Arts and Sciences student ambassadors are some of the first faces that prospective […]
Javier Gómez Marchant was surrounded by a passion for science during his childhood in Santiago, Chile, and YouTube videos drew his interest to astronomy. Undergraduate research opportunities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, cemented his interest in a career seeking to better understand the cosmos. He is graduating with a BS in physics and preparing […]
At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Jennifer Gary’s preparation for a career in counseling didn’t sideline her passion for the arts. The Franklin, Tennessee, native will graduate this spring with a double major in psychology and cinema studies. “I’ve had a love for psychology ever since high school and enjoy learning about what makes people […]
Kaden Cobb’s high school classmates nominated her as “Most likely to win an argument” among their senior class in Clarksville, Tennessee, and three years later she is headed to law school. This spring Cobb is completing a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after making the dean’s list every semester […]
Winning research presentations highlight professional growth opportunities for arts and sciences students. Thirty-two undergraduate students from across the College of Arts and Sciences earned top scores for their research and creative achievements during the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS) on April 9. Winning presentations were recognized during an awards reception on April 28. […]
UT Alumna Katharine Burnett joins Denbo Center to help grow research and public-facing programs for humanities and the arts. Katharine Burnett will join the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs, a role central to Denbo’s future growth. In this role, she will help support the center’s […]
Professor Paul Armsworth elected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Professor Paul Armsworth, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, among its cohort of 2025 ESA Fellows. He joins seven other new fellows and 10 new early career fellows. The fellowship status recognizes the many ways […]
Jacob Suissa’s new book delves into the history, evolution, and adaptability of ferns. Jacob Suissa is known for his enthusiastic approach to teaching about botany, both in the classroom as a professor of evolutionary biology at UT and through the non-profit “Let’s Botanize” social-media platform. He has now channeled that green-world energy into a new […]
History Professor Charles Sanft will spend the 2025-2026 academic year in Germany, focusing on his research into premodern Chinese manuscripts with the support of a Humboldt Research Award. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation makes up to 100 awards each year to honor internationally leading scholars from all disciplines for their work. Although the award does […]
International group of scientists met at UT Knoxville to form a “network of networks” for microbial research. The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) hosted a meeting of 34 scientists from around the world March 20–23, 2025, to build a synthetic vision for the field of plant-microbe interactions across space, time, and levels of […]
