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
- Broadway World: Sean McCollough Releases ‘Earworm’ on May 11th (Music)
- Oak Ridger: Well, Hello Dolly! (History)
- WBIR: Legendary ‘Tonight Show’ Bandleader Doc Severinsen to Take Part in Free Concert April 9 (Music)
- Crossville Chronicle: UT Prof to Talk on Civil War’s Coming (History)
- WBIR: VOLume Acapella Group to Help Kick off the Rossini Festival (Music)
- News Sentinel: Notre Dame Cathedral Fire: UT French Professors, Diocese of Knoxville, Local Teachers React (Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
WBIR: Shock over Notre Dame Fire Felt by Knoxville (MFLL & English)
Natural Sciences
- Nature: Asteroid’s Bumpiness Threatens US Plan to Return a Sample to Earth (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WBIR: Geologist: You Shouldn’t Be Concerned About the Recent Small Earthquakes in East Tennessee (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Compass: Wildflower Witness (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Sierra: Does a Bear Think in the Woods? (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- News Sentinel: Butterfly Garden is Latest Addition to Sevier Avenue in South Knoxville (Microbiology)
- Science and Technology Research News: Climate Change is Throwing Major Shade on Forest Wildflowers (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- WVLT: The Booms are Back in Town: Earthquakes Hit Maryville Area (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WYMT: Several Earthquakes Rock Eastern Tennessee (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Wall Street Journal: The Hunt for Alien Life Starts in Earth’s Most Extreme Places (Microbiology)
- WVLT: Is Rain to Blame for East Tennessee Quakes? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Science: Scientists Decry USDA’s Decision to End Cat Parasite Research (Microbiology)
- Lebanon Democrat: Biology in a Box Brings Bones, Fun to K-12 Students (Biology)
- Nature: How Long do Neutrons Live? Physicists Close In on Decades-Old Puzzle (Physics & Astronomy)
Tech 2: How Long Do Neutrons Live? Physicists Close in a Puzzle of Decades (Physics & Astronomy)
Social Sciences
- Tullahoma News: Body Farm Founder Visits THS (Anthropology)
- FBI: Unearthing Stories for 20 Years at the ‘Body Farm’ (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Body Farm Director Says New Jack the Ripper Evidence Doesn’t Close The Case (Anthropology)
- Vox: Who Makes Up Kamala Harris’s Base? (Political Science)
- News Sentinel: Special Delivery: Immigrant Rights Group to Deliver Hundreds of Letters Opposing 287(g) (Sociology)
- Smithsonian: Cave Markings Tell of Cherokee Life in the Years Before Indian Removal (Anthropology)
- Daily Mail: Mysterious Inscriptions Discovered in an Alabama Cave Have Finally Been Decoded (Anthropology)
AL.com: Mystery of Cherokee Messages in Alabama Cave Finally Unraveled Centuries Later (Anthropology) - ScienceBlog: Psychologists Find Smiling Really Can Make People Happier (Psychology)
- LiveScience: Cherokee Wrote Backward Messages in Cave to Speak to the Spirit World (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Suspect Charged With Premeditated Murder After Skeletal Remains Found In Morgan County (Anthropology)
- Tech Times: Cherokee Cave Markings In Alabama Cave Document Old Games, Rituals, and Health Conditions (Anthropology)
- Chattanoogan: CHS Teacher Wins UTK Math Award (Math)
- WBIR: UT Dedicates Strong Hall Atrium in Honor of Dr. Bill Bass (Anthropology)
- News Sentinel: Dr. Bill Bass Honored in UT Strong Hall Atrium Dedication (Anthropology)
- Ongoing Coverage: Smiling Helps You Get Happy (Psychology)
- Huffington Post UK: Smiling Really Can Make You Feel Happier, Says (Some of) the Science (also ran on Yahoo! News UK)
- Daily Mail: Smiling Really Does Make You Happier
- The Independent: Smiling Has a Direct Positive Impact on Your Mood, Scientists Say
- WebMD: Science Says: Smiling Helps You Get Happy
- News Medical: Smiling Is The Secret to Happiness, According to Experts
- Drugs.com: Science Says: Smiling Does Bring a Mood Boost
- Futurity: To Change How You Feel, Put on a Smile
- The Sun: Smiling Really Can Make You Feel Happier
- Yahoo! US: Smiling Has A Direct Positive Impact on Your Mood, Scientists Say
- StudyFinds: The Key to Happiness? Just Smile, Study Suggests
- ABC13: Smiling Can Make People Happier: Psychologists
- Science Alert: Turns Out This Age-Old Tip for Making Yourself Happier Actually Works
- Metro: There’s A Really Simple Way to Make Yourself Feel A Little Bit Happier, Scientists Reveal
- Fox 17: UT Researcher Finds Smiling Can Affect Emotions
- Earth.com: Smiling Really Can Make You Feel Happier
- Mind Body Green: Here’s a 10-Second Way to Boost Your Mood
- MSN: Expressing Happiness Can Help You Feel More Positive
- London Economic: Smiling Really Can Help People Feel Happier
- Business Standard: Smiling Makes People Happier: Study (also ran in The Times of India)
- Mirror (Rachael Bletchly): A Smile Helps You Wash Away the Brexit Anxiety
- CBS Austin: Fake It ‘Til You Make It: Researchers Find Smiling Can Affect Emotions
- Philly Voice: A Quick Trick to Naturally Boost Your Mood? Smile, Researchers Say
- Financial Express: Smile Please! Smiling Makes People Happier, Finds Study
- The Independent: Lifestyle Barometer: Your Guide to What’s Hot and What’s Not (also ran on Yahoo! Style UK)
College-Level Programs
- WBIR: UT Senior Molly Rodabaugh Wins Nearly $13,000 On Wheel of Fortune (College Scholars)
- News Sentinel: University of Tennessee Student Molly Rodabaugh Wins More Than $12K on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ (College Scholars)
Opinion & Commentary – College of Arts and Sciences Faculty & Staff
- Books Et Al (Angela Chuang): When Birding Meets Board Games, Everyone Wins (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Washington Post (Helene Sinnreich): Anti-Vaxxers Comparing Themselves to Holocaust Victims – Who Relied on Vaccines to Survive (Judaic Studies)