This section of Dialogue features external media coverage faculty, staff, and students in our college received. Links are sourced from the News Summary, published by the UT Office of Media Relations. If you have a news item to pitch to external media, please email Amanda Womac.
Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts
- History.com: How Andrew Jackson Rode a Populist Wave to Become America’s First ‘Outsider’ President (History)
- Compass: A Fair to Remember (Music)
- News Sentinel: Levi Kreis & Clarence Brown’s ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ (Theatre/CBT)
- News Sentinel: UT Is Celebrating Its Quasquibicentennial. What The Heck Is That And How Do You Say It? (Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
- News Sentinel: See UT Alumnus, Actor Logan Marshall-Green in New ‘Telling Lies’ Game (English)
- News Sentinel: ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ Rocks in Theater Season (Theatre/CBT)
News Sentinel: See Knoxville Actress Dale Dickey in New Netflix True Crime Show ‘Unbelievable’ (Theatre)
Natural Sciences
- BBC Earth: Komodo Dragons Play with Buckets—Animals at Play (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- WBIR: UT microbiologist says toxic blue-green algae is not in Tennessee (Also ran in Knoxville News Sentinel) (Microbiology)
- Forbes: Bacteria Has Metabolism 1 Million Times Slower, Eats Centuries-Old Food (Also appeared in other outlets including New York Daily News) (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- WHYY: Which Animals Play, and Why? (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Commercial Appeal: Memphis Park Testing for Toxic Algae after Unconfirmed Reports of Dog Deaths at Shelby Farms (Microbiology)
- Science Daily: To Stop Mosquito-Transmitted Illnesses, Pay Attention to How Humans Behave (Also appeared in other outlets, including Science Codex) (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Science Magazine: No Microbiome Is an Island, Survey Reveals (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Mirage News: Duke-Led Team Wins $3M Grant to Study Peatlands and Climate Change (Microbiology)
- NBC News: Strange Life-Forms Found Deep In A Mine Point To Vast ‘Underground Galapagos’ (Microbiology)
- CPR News: Auraria’s Past Helps Present Students; Colorado Warms A Meadow On Purpose (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- News Sentinel: Social Media Got You? Here’s How to Form a Healthier Relationship With It and When to Retreat from It (Also appeared in other outlets, including The Tennessean and the Commercial Appeal) (Psychology)
- ABC News: Robert Ballard of Titanic Fame Now Searching for Amelia Earhart Wreckage (Also appeared in other outlets, including WUTQ-FM, ABC News Radio, and WCJS) (Anthropology)
- Macomb Daily: Task Force Searching For Young Girls’ Remains Again In Macomb Twp. (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Woman Opens Free Sewing Camp, Teaches Kids How to Run Own Businesses (Sociology)
- Daily Beacon: GED To Phd: Tennessee Doctoral Fellow Marcia Chavez on Her Educational Journey (Psychology)
- FiveThirtyEight: Can Smiling Really Make You Happier? (Psychology)
- Medium: What Teeth Grinding Reveals About Your Psyche (Psychology)
Other News & Opinion Pieces
- News Sentinel: UT’s Austin Peay Building: Home to Andy Holt Before Andy Holt Tower
- Milwaukee Independent (Jordan Brasher and Derek Alderman): Lessons from the Soviet Past: How a Confederate Statue Graveyard Could Help Bury the Old South
- News Sentinel (Robert Hutton): A Century After Deadly ‘Red Summer,’ Racial Inequality, Violence Haunt Us