by Gavin Thagard Seven UT students in the College of Arts and Sciences received scholarships through the McClure and Mae Scheib Scholarship Fund for the Study of World Affairs. The recipients for the 2024-2025 academic year are Dana Nabil Khalil Abu Haltam, Orhan Dogan, and Kacper Grass from the Department of Political Science; Stella Korleki […]
By Randall Brown Three faculty members from the UT College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) presented in the closing session for the 2023-2024 Research Development Academy (RDA), which empowers faculty to advance in research, scholarship, and/or creative activities in a collegial environment with supportive guidance. Assistant Professors Shinnerrie Jackson, Department of Theatre; DeLisa Hawkes, Africana […]
An increasing number of Vols in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) earned awards through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). It marks a successful effort from the department to support researchers at the graduate level. EEB winners are Sam Wilhelm, Kate Loveday, and Keelee Pullum. Other 2024 fellowship […]
The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Office of Research and Creative Activity expanded this spring to help guide the vibrant interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and creative activity throughout arts and humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. This office provides expert concierge service to all college faculty for the preparation and submission of all non-technical […]
Assistant Professors Tova Holmes and Larry Lee are particle physicists and in their line of work to think big, you have to think small. That’s where muons come in, and it’s how they became part of a Science Magazine story—including creating the cover art. In “The Dream Machine,” journalist Adrian Cho reviews the newly-drawn roadmap […]
The College of Arts and Sciences hosted its annual Faculty Convocation March 25, 2024, at the UT Conference Center in Downtown Knoxville. Faculty from across the college received awards for excellence in teaching and advising, academic outreach, research and creative activity, and more. Congratulations to all the award recipients on your outstanding service to our […]
Welcome to the inaugural Arts & Science Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS), held concurrently with EUReCA 2024. This event marks the first of its kind—an annual celebration of research and creative endeavors by currently enrolled undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS), University of Tennessee, Knoxville. About ASUReS ASUReS provides a platform for […]
Alison Buchan, Carolyn W. Fite Professor and associate head of microbiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, was recently elected as a 2022 Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology. This is an honor that recognizes service, leadership, and creative achievement in the field of microbiology. The fellow selection process is based on several factors, […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded prestigious NEH Fellowships to three faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Arts and Sciences. UT is one of just two universities to receive three NEH fellowships in 2023, a reflection of the high quality of work being conducted there in the humanities. The […]
Ralph Lydic, professor in the UT Department of Psychology, and Dmitry Bolmatov, a research assistant professor in the UT Department of Physics and Astronomy, are part of a UT/ORNL research team studying how bio-inspired materials might inform the design of next-generation computers. Their results, published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, […]
