Research & Creative Activity

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 book about the complex history of one of the planet’s most enduring plants.…

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…

Researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have shown that when they use cameras mounted on a drone, they can develop a digital model of a crater faster and with more detail than previously possible. Their study, “A Drone-Based Thermophysical Investigation of Barringer Meteorite Crater Ejecta,” was published in the February 2025 issue of the…

New study shows that higher education levels combine with experiences of recent warming temperatures to increase concern about climate change in the US. A new interdisciplinary study by UT faculty shines light on how educational levels impact climate concerns in the US within communities that experience local, direct effects from the changing climate. Alex Bentley,…

The Symposium on AI in the Humanities and Social Sciences will bring together researchers and faculty from across disciplines to share groundbreaking techniques and technology for the use of artificial intelligence in higher education.  “Collaborating across disciplines in arts and sciences is essential for teaching and research using AI, as I hope our event will…