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
- The Daily Times: RIO Revolution Music Director Schedules Master’s Performance at UT (Music)
- News Sentinel: New Book Details First-Person Accounts of Knoxville’s Larger-Than-Life Cas Walker (History)
- WBIR: Father-Son Drum Major Duo Will Take The Field For The Pride Of The Southland Band’s 150th Anniversary (Music)
- Knoxville Focus: Clarence Brown Theatre Patrons Donate More Than $16,000 to Highlander Center During Run of “People Where They Are” (Theatre)
- WRAL: ‘The Battle for Freedom Begins Every Morning’: Durham Federal Courthouse to be Named for Civil Rights Leader (History)
- Garden and Gun: Behind Dolly’s America (History)
Rolling Stone: What a New Dolly Parton Podcast Has to Say About Life in the United States (History) - Saturday Evening Post: America’s First Black Opera Composer Left Behind a Rich, Untapped Archive (English)
Natural Sciences
- WATE: UT Invites Public To View Mercury Transit Event (Physics & Astronomy)
- WATE (video): UT Professor Professor Receives $2.5M Grant to Study Permafrost (Microbiology)
- Bioengineer: Pharmacy in the Jungle Study Reveals Indigenous People’s Choice of Medicinal Plants (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Technology Networks: Tracing One Billion Years of Plant Life (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- ScienceBlog: Study: Fire-Spawned Fungi Hide in Other Organisms (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- News Sentinel: Does East Tennessee’s Earthquake Risk Warrant Buying Insurance? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Scienmag: Fire-Spawned Forest Fungi Hide Out in Other Organisms, Study Finds (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Baltimore Sun: A Not-So Happy Halloween For Maryland’s Struggling Bat Population (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- NOVA: World’s Loudest Bird Flirts by Screaming in Your Face (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Physics World: Sonic Shock Waves Could Help Desalinate Water (Chemistry)
- Apartment Therapy: Why You Should Make the Switch to Hygienic Silicone Toilet Brushes (Microbiology)
- Orange County Register: How Common are Bats with Rabies and Should You Worry (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- WBIR: Researchers find opportunity to learn from tragic 2016 Sevier County wildfires (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- WBIR: Care to Glare? UT Study Finds ‘Game Face’ Might Help Your Performance (Psychology)
- PBS Newshour: How To Talk To Your Kids About Impeachment (Political Science)
- Undark (Magazine): Down on the Body Farm: Unlocking the Forensic Secrets of Decaying Corpses (Anthropology)
- Washington Post: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Name Removed From Historic Street By Kansas City Voters (Geography) Also appeared in US News and World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CBS News, NBC News, the Associated Press, MSN, and The Hill
- MSN: Why Halloween Candy Is Now Scarier Than The Clowns (Anthropology) Also appeared in MarketWatch
- WVLT: East Tennessee Soldier Deploying to Fight Cyber Warfare (Political Science)
- Dental Tribune: Researchers Link Obesity to Dietary Changes from Decades Ago (Anthropology)
- WVLT: Science Behind Vol Fans Optimism (Psychology)
- New York Times: The Amelia Earhart Mystery Stays Down in the Deep (Anthropology)
- Middle East Eye: How Iran Views the Turkish Invasion of Northern Syria (Political Science)
- Archaeology: Deciphering Cherokee ritual imagery deep in the caves of the American South (Anthropology)