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
- Considering an MFA? How to Find Quality + Value in a Program (Theatre)
- Longtime Clarence Brown Theatre Musical Director Loses Battle with Cancer, Leaves Legacy (Theatre)
Natural Sciences
- NASA Responds to Trust’s Tongue-in-Cheek Mars Request (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Aquatic Life Suffers Under Coal Mining (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Poor Eyesight Inspires Man’s Vision to Become Eye Doctor (Biochemistry and Cellular & Molecular Biology)
Social Sciences
- Some White Americans Like Their Black Heroes Safely Locked Away in the Past (Sociology)
- Parents, Monitor These Apps on Your Kid’s Phone (Psychology)
- Rising Seas Are Threatening Historical Sites Around the World (Anthropology)
- Diversity of Thought (Sociology)
- Armed Peacekeepers Really Do Protect Civilians—with One Big Exception (Political Science)
- What’s the Trump Effect on Tennessee’s Governor’s Race? (Political Science)
- Alabama Professor Makes a Major Discovery (Anthropology)