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
- Marilyn Kallet Named as City’s New Poet Laureate (English)
- UT Chamber Singers Soaring Abroad (Music)
- ‘Leave No Trace:’ Knoxville’s Dale Dickey Starring in Acclaimed Firm Now in Theaters (Theatre)
Natural Sciences
- Global Warming’s Infectious Trojan Horse: Animals Moving North May Bring New Diseases (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Students Hope Mosquito Model Will Reduce La Crosse Encephalitis Rates (Physics)
- Research Indicates Spiders Use Electric Fields to Take Flight (Biology)
- Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- How Did the Massive ‘Salty’ Crocodile Captured in Australia Get So Big? (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Study examines human impact on diversity and virulence of zoonotic parasite (Microbiology)
Social Sciences
- Seeking a Scientific Explanation for Trans Identity Could Do More Harm than Good (Psychology)
- Families Belong Together: Knoxville Rallies on Immigration, Child Separation (Psychology)
- What Dead Pigs Can Teach Us about Missing Migrant Bodies in the Desert (Anthropology)
- Non-Religious Countries Experience Greater Economic Growth, Study Finds (Anthropology)
- It’s Only Natural: Dendrochronology (Geography)
Other College Programs
- Endowment Provides Support for Middle East Studies (Middle East Studies)
- Legacy Gift Lays Foundation for Future of Judaic Studies (Judaic Studies)