This section of Dialogue features a roundup of outside media coverage faculty in our college received, as well as additional news items from departments. If you have a news item you would like included in the next Dialogue, please email Amanda Womac.
Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts
- Germany Will Now Allow Some Nazi Symbols in Video Games. Here’s What to Know About the History of That Ban (History)
- Speaking poetry to power: Joy Harjo (English)
- Chicago Talent Headlines Bernstein’s ‘Candide’ in Knoxville, Tennessee (Theatre)
- Don’t Let Voltaire Scare You: Clarence Brown’s ‘Candide’ Is Note Perfect, Sumptuous Play (Theatre)
- Fighting to Save Indigenous Sign Languages (Linguistics IDP)
- Can an Organic Farmer Win in Appalachian Virginia? (History)
Natural Sciences
- Rhododendron? Hydrangea? America Doesn’t Know Anymore (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- What Is The Red Material Found On Uranus’ Moons? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Study suggests potential therapy for Huntington’s Disease (Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology)
- As Climate Warms, Algae Blooms In Drinking Water Supplies (Microbiology)
- Mass Extinction in Pre-Historic Earth Happened Due to Huge Volcanic Eruption? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Ozone depletion caused largest ever mass extinction, finds study: Facts on the 5 extinction events of Earth (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- UT Professor Co-Authors Study Uncovering Details of Ancient Extinction, aka ‘The Great Dying’ (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Before the Dinosaurs, a Million-Year-Long Volcanic Eruption Destroyed the Ozone Layer (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Great Dying Mystery Revealed Explaining How Volcano Eruption Wiped Out 90 Percent of Life (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Russian Volcanoes Fingered for Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- This Ancient Volcanic Eruption Killed 90 Percent of All Life on Earth—and Now Scientists Know Why (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Oregon, Ohio Regulate Algae. Will More States Follow Suit? (Microbiology)
Social Sciences
- 9 Facts About Human Decomposition (Anthropology)
- Before Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers Was Killed for His Work There Was Elbert Williams. His Case Is Being Reopened (Anthropology)
- Driverless Car Technology Could Help Find Unmarked Graves (Anthropology)
- National political pundits are watching Tennessee’s women (Political Science)
- Naming the Borderland’s lost (Anthropology)
- Reopening of 1940 Elbert Williams case part of national effort to bring justice to civil rights heroes (Anthropology)
- New laser scanner finds unmarked graves (Anthropology)
- Here’s Why Diabetics Should Get Proper Sleep (Psychology)
- Poor Sleep May Delay Wound Healing in Diabetics (Psychology)
- New evidence on the Watts murder case (Anthropology)
- UT ‘Body Farm’ Founder Dr. Bill Bass Turns 90 (Anthropology)
- New Water Worlds (Anthropology)