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
- Nashville Scene: Piecing Together: Talking to Fabric Designer Anna Maria Horner Ahead of QuiltCon (Art)
- WBIR: The Amazing Story of Joan of Arc Comes To Life in an Original Ballet Performance (Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
- News Sentinel: Knoxville Music, Theater: Jerry Lee Lewis Still Rocks, Clarence Brown Goes Motown, KSO Sets Season (Theatre)
Natural Sciences
- Gizmodo: The Enduring Mystery of the Martian ‘Blueberries’ Discovered by Opportunity Rover (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Financial Times: Researchers Plan to Enlist Ocean Viruses in Climate Change Fight (Microbiology)
IFLScience: Marine Bacteria Turn Viruses Into Climate-Shaping Biological Weapons (Microbiology) - WBIR: Expert: Rain In Forecast Leads to Increasing Chances for Landslide (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
WATE: More Rain Will Likely Mean More Landslides in East Tennessee (Earth & Planetary Sciences) - Scientific American: Most Microbial Species Are “Dark Matter” (Microbiology)
- Conservative Woman (Nick Booth): Battling Bacteria Back Brexit (Microbiology)
- WBIR: TN Experts Explain the Difference between a Mudslide and a Landslide (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WBIR: How Does a Massive Sinkhole Form? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WVLT (video): Why Are We Seeing So Many Sinkholes? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Scientific American: Most Microbial Species are ‘Dark Matter’ (Microbiology)
- Oak Ridge Today: Earthquake Hazard in East Tennessee: What Could Happen Here? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Space Daily: It’s All in the Twist: Physicists Stack 2D Materials at Angles to Trap Particles (Physics & Astronomy)
- For Kaua’i: UH Professor Discovers New Species in Big Island’s Lava Tubes (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WVLT (video): Live Floodwater Coverage (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Social Sciences
- WBIR: Congressman Burchett Gains National Attention for Selfie Videos (Political Science)
- WFMY News 2: 3 Things You Can Do Today to Spend Less Time on Your Phone (Psychology)
- Police One (Joseph Jaynes): How Real Blood, Real Bones & Real Bodies Enhance Forensics Training (Anthropology)
- New York Times (Fawn Fitter): My Afterlife on the Body Farm (Anthropology)
- Tribune Star: ‘Body Farm’ Researcher Shares Experience with ISU Audience (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Other Democrats, List Knoxville Addresses on FEC Filing (Political Science)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: How a Tennessee Town Saved an Airplane That Never Flew (political Science)
- WBIR: UT Body Farm’s Dr. Bill Bass Weighs In After Bagged Body Washed Up Along Douglas Lake (Anthropology)
- The Independent (UK): The Body Farm: How a University Programme Gives People A Purpose After Death (Anthropology)
Opinion & Commentary – College of Arts and Sciences Faculty & Staff
- Backstage (Brian Gligor): Considering an MFA? How to Find Quality + Value in a Program (Theatre)
- News Sentinel (Beauvais Lyons): Campus Free Speech Protection Act Must Be Upheld at UT (Art)
- News Sentinel (Misty Anderson): Ash Wednesday Offers Chance to Understand How We Got to UTK Blackface Photo (English)
- The Tennessean (Lisi Schoenbach): Higher Education is More Than a Degree. It’s About Tennessee’s Quality of Life. (English)
- Daily Beacon (Jason Smethers): Wide World of Esports: Majoring in Video Games
- News Sentinel (Patrick Grzanka): Colleges Don’t Marginalize, Discriminate Against Men (Psychology)
- Tennessean (Jordan Brasher and Derek Alderman): Legal Battle Over Franklin Confederate Statue Shows the Power of Place (Geography)