This section of Dialogue features a roundup of outside media coverage faculty, staff, and students 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
- Daily Times: Maryville Native Lands Prestigious International Scholarship (Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
- Grammy.com: The Many Faces of “La Llorona” (Music)
- Oak Ridge Today: Oak Ridge City Manager Earns Doctorate Degree from UT (Philosophy)
- Penobscot Bay Pilot: Unity Artist Among 2019 Residents at Fiore Art Center (Art)
Mom Does Reviews: Best Summer Road Trip Playlist Ideas (Music) - Daily Times: Bottling ‘Lightning:’ East Tennessee Actress, Producer Returns Home to Help Audiences Catch a ‘Thief’ (Theatre)
- New York Times: If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home? (Philosophy)
- News Sentinel: D-Day 75th Anniversary: What Tennessee Students Learn in Classrooms about WWII (History/Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
WBIR: ‘Branded In My Brain’: East Tennessee Remembers D-Day, 75 Years Later (History/Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
Natural Sciences
- News Sentinel: Summer 2019: 100 Things To Do In Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Beyond (Physics & Astronomy)
- WBIR: What’s In The Water In East Tennessee? (Microbiology)
- The Scientist: First Author Should be Responsible for Paper Accuracy (Chemistry)
- News Sentinel: Invasive Japanese Knotweed Worse Than Kudzu, Threatens East Tennessee Ecosystems (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- Chattanooga Times Free Press: UT Doctoral Student Finishing TVA Scientist’s Research on Tree Rings to Understand Long-Term Weather Patterns (Geography)
WDEF: Digging Deep to Test for Droughts (Geography) - Engineering and Technology: Solving Crimes With Geology (Anthropology)
- Insurancenewsnet: Will Age Matter in the 2020 Presidential Race? (Political Science)
- WUTC: TVA Uses Tree Rings to Predict Drought (Geography)
WRCB: Student Finishing Decades-Old TVA Research On Tree Rings And Weather (Geography) - ClimateWire: Student Revives Decades-old Research Sidelined by Sexism (Geography)
- Compass: Backyard Archaeologists (Anthropology)
- WMKY: Reviving Small, Appalachian Towns with Local Assets (Political Science)
- Compass Knox: For the Records (Sociology)
Opinion & Commentary
- News Sentinel (Misty Anderson): We Must Ask Ourselves What We Want America to Be