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
Natural Sciences
- Plate Tectonics May Have Started Since the Earth’s Beginning (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Mysterious “microbial dark matter” dominates our planet’s environments (Microbiology)
- Scientists discover what caused the worst mass extinction of life in history (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- On the hunt for a silent salamander-killer (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- Will Taylor Swift’s Political Endorsements in Tennessee Races Make a Difference? Experts Weigh In (Political Science)
- ‘Real’ fake research hoodwinks US journals (Mathematics)
- Two-headed animals: What causes them and how common are they? (Psychology)
- Rare two-headed Eastern Copperhead snake found in Virginia (Psychology)
- EHS Sociology Class Gets Help from University of Tennessee Body Farm (Anthropology)
- East Tennessee may see rain, tornadoes, flooding in wake of Florence, local experts say (Geography)