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
- Greeneville Sun: Jackson’s Beliefs Were Both ‘Sincere’ And ‘Self-Serving,’ Speaker Says (History)
- WBIR: Instruments of Healing: a look at the Violins of Hope exhibit in Knoxville (Art)
- WATE: Holocaust-era violins to go on display in Knoxville (Art)
- WVLT: Dozens of violins survive the Holocaust (Art)
- Knoxville News Sentinel: ‘Violins of Hope’ Exhibit: When a Musical Instrument is More than its Sound (Art)
- The Washington Post (Tore Olsson): The Hole in Donald Trump’s Wall (History)
- Annex Galleries Online: Print of the Day! Koichi Yamamoto, Wednesday, January 9, 2019 (Art)
- News Sentinel: Music Played on Violins that Survived Holocaust Tunes in Knoxville Students to History (Music)
Natural Sciences
- Wired: This is how China will land a rover on the far side of the Moon (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- The Guardian: Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions Of Micro-Organisms (Microbiology)
- IFL Science: Scientists Discover Colossal Ecosystem Teeming with Life Below Earth’s Surface (Microbiology)
- Mother Jones: Scientists Just Discovered Billions of Previously Undetected Microorganisms. Right. Beneath. Us. (Microbiology)
- Eyewitness News: Vast, Zombie-Like Microbial Life Lurks Beneath Seabed (Microbiology)
- Free Republic: Life in Deep Earth Totals 15 to 23 Billion Tons of Carbon—Hundreds of Times More than Humans (Microbiology)
- COSMOS: Deep Life: Exploring Microbial Dark Matter (Microbiology)
- Montreal Gazette: Eat Sulphur, Breathe Rust: Scientists Find Life Deep Underground (Microbiology)
- Astronomy Magazine: Scientists Discover Staggering Amount Of Life Deep Below Earth’s Surface (Microbiology)
- Sputnik News (Q & A with Karen Lloyd): Professor: ‘There is Quite a Lot of Life Underneath the Deep Subsurface’ (Microbiology)
- WVLT (video): Local Geology Expert Talks Earthquake (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WATE: Expert Says Don’t be Alarmed by Recent Earthquakes (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- News Sentinel: East Tennessee Jolted by Strongest Earthquake to Hit Area in 45 Years (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WBIR: In Tennessee, Earthquakes Are An Inevitable Part of Life. Here’s What You Need to Know for Next Time (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Biomass Magazine: ORNL team uses supercomputer to aid in biofuel production (Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology)
- New York Times: Deep Beneath Your Feet, They Live in the Octillions (Microbiology)
- The Wall Street Journal: Climate’s Big Unknown: What’s Happening Beneath Antarctica’s Ice? (Microbiology)
- WVLT: The ‘Big One’ Always Possible, Says UT Earthquake Expert (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Social Sciences
- Breitbart (UPI): Link Between Poverty, Obesity Developed in Last 30 Years (Anthropology)
- K5 News: ‘Quincy Square’: Bremerton Seeks Quincy Jones’ Approval For Public Square (Geography)
- National Geographic: How to Donate Your Body to Science (Anthropology)
- PsychCentral: Link Between Poverty and Obesity a Recent Phenomenon (Anthropology)
- Phys.org: Best of Last Year—The top Phys.org articles of 2018 (Anthropology)
- NPR: ‘Hip-Hop Deserves That Respect’: Honoring The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan In NYC (Geography)
- Politico: House Dem majority welcomes first black female floor director (Political Science)
- Ethiopia Insight: Anguish for Harari as Oromo claim rights (Sociology)
- Big Think: There was no relationship between obesity and poverty — until high-fructose corn syrup (Anthropology)
- Knoxville News Sentinel: Why Don’t Cities Change Controversial Street Names? UT Study Says It’s About Convenience, Economics (Geography)
- WBIR: Non-Profit Aims To Help Struggling Couples In The Middle Of ‘Divorce Month’ (Psychology)
- The Dallas Post Tribune (Derek Alderman): For Many US Towns And Cities, Deciding Which Streets To Name After MLK Reflects His Unfinished Work (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Expert: Congress Doesn’t Have to Follow Many of the Laws They Set for Us (Political Science)
- Chicago Tribune: Chicago Was the First of Many Cities to Name a Street for MLK. Now a Detroit Filmmaker Wants to Make a Movie about Them. (Geography)
- ProPublica: The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree. (Anthropology)