The smallest Earth-bound organisms can inspire technology that will someday reach far across the solar system in the search for extraterrestrial life. UT Microbiology Professor Jill Mikucki studies how microbial life forms interact with their environments—and helps fellow scientists and engineers test the tools to detect the microbial impact throughout entire ecosystems. Mikucki’s field work […]
The Russell Sage Foundation (RSF) has awarded UT’s Appalachian Justice Research Center (AJRC) a $74,800 grant to support its study of a legal aid program for tenants facing evictions in Knox County. Amid rising rents and evictions, Knox County increased the availability of counsel at various stages of the eviction process in late 2023, through […]
UT’s interdisciplinary justice studies program launched in 2024 to offer students an enhanced understanding of social and economic justice issues across a variety of fields and career paths. “It’s an interdisciplinary approach to the study of justice and injustice,” said Tyler Wall, associate professor in sociology and chair of the program. “It’s justice broadly construed—we’re […]
Actress and singer Morgan Scott (’04) is on her second national tour starring in The Cher Show, taking her to scores of cities across the US. When she was graduating from high school, she knew her first stop would be the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “UT provides a phenomenal theater education and experience,” said Scott, […]
The mysteries of science entice UT research faculty to seek new discoveries in some of the world’s most extreme environments. Their fascinations might lead them to probe the ice fields of Antarctica to expand interplanetary possibilities, scoop up remnants of ancient undersea volcanoes to predict future impact, or break open the subatomic world to better […]
Two College of Arts and Sciences researchers were honored during the UT Research Foundation (UTRF) 2024 Innovation Awards on November 25. Microbiology Professor Chunlei Su was noted for his licensed technology collaboration on the TgMAT Antigen with UT alumna Alycia Chapman, and Richard Gerhold Jr., an associate professor in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine. […]
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is joining three other universities to explore the impact of families on the mental health of Latinx lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth. Associate Professor Kirsten Gonzalez, in the UT Department of Psychology, is a co-investigator on a five-year, $2.6 million National Institute of Health grant that includes […]
Research in the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology is providing insights into DNA break and repair processes necessary for the development of a human parasite. A recently published study led by graduate student Brandon Estrem determined when and where DNA breaks appear during the development of the human and pig parasite Ascaris, […]
Seconds count for first responders heading to an emergency, and students from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are working this semester to give Oak Ridge firefighters an edge with better maps. Using skills they have learned in the classroom for geographic information systems (GIS), UT students will enhance what firefighters see on a wall-sized map […]
For John Clugg (’21, ’22), the path to studying history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and becoming a teacher started with his childhood interest in pirates. While watching the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, he became fascinated by the British Empire and the Age of Discovery, when people across the world began to intermingle […]
