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
- News Sentinel: Why Knoxville-Filmed ‘Light from Light’ Was Written for East Tennessee and Jim Gaffigan (Art)
- WBIR: ‘Dolly Parton’s America’ Producers Share Stories from Putting Podcast Together (History)
- News Sentinel: Students to Be Featured on ‘Dolly Parton’s America’: Here’s How the Class Inspired the Podcast (History)
- Daily Beacon: Dennis Belisle Wins Musical Grant, Discusses Composition Process (Music)
- News Sentinel: Christmas 2019: It’s Bah Humbug and Ghosts Again as Clarence Brown Tells ‘A Christmas Carol’ (Theatre)
Natural Sciences
- News Sentinel: National Park Service Takes Unprecedented Step In Smoky Mountains To Save Endangered Bats (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- WBIR: The Smallest Vol: Tiny Snail Species Named after UT (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Social Sciences
- WBIR: UT Graduate Is The First Transgender Woman To Be Named A Rhodes Scholar (Anthropology)
- News Sentinel: Hera Jay Brown, the First Transgender Woman Rhodes Scholar, Named School’s Ninth Scholar (Anthropology)
- WBIR: Students Claim Prestigious Rhodes, Mitchell Scholarships (Anthropology)
- WATE: Alum Is First Transgender Woman in History Selected as Rhodes Scholar (Anthropology)
- Forbes: Meet the First Transgender Woman to Be Named a Rhodes Scholar (Anthropology)
- Out Magazine: Meet the First Out Trans Woman to Win a Rhodes Scholarship (Anthropology)
- Salt Lake City Weekly: Born This Way? (Psychology)
- Quartz: The World Plans to Fix Climate Change with Carbon Credits. But Do They Work? (Sociology)
- Times Free Press: Emmett Till Memorial, Others Taking Security Steps Amid Vandalism (Geography) Also appeared in other outlets, including WREG, New York Daily News, Times Free Press, the Charlotte Observer, US News & World Report, and the Miami Herald
- Science Daily: Mathematician Develops Model to Control Spread of Aquatic Invasive Species (Math)
- CNBC: Making this Facial Expression Can Boost Your Performance by 20 Percent, According to Science (Psychology)
- Inverse: Down on the Body Farm: Unlocking the Forensic Secrets of Decaying Corpses (Anthropology)
- Science Daily: Get Your Game Face On: Study Finds It May Help (Psychology)
College of Arts and Sciences and Other Programs
- Daily Beacon: Law School Admissions Test to Remove Notorious ‘Logic Games’ Section, How It Will Affect Pre-Law Students (Advising)
Recent Department News
- Budke Publishes Paper on Spore Dispersal of Fern
- Heath, Hollenbach Receive Chesapeake Cultural Studies Grant
- Gaoue Coauthors Article about Medicinal Jungle Plants
- Researchers Develop Open Source EEG Visualization Tool
- Harvey Publishes Article on Speciation
- Destine Publishes Article on Black Women and Femme Actors
- Turning Frustration into Next-Generation Devices