This section of Dialogue features a roundup of outside media coverage faculty, staff, and students 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.
Media Mentions for April 2018
Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts
- WBIR: UT Receives Funding to Participate in Veterans Legacy Program (History)
- Inside Higher Ed: Walking Around a Problem (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures)
- News Sentinel: Marianne Custer Retires from UT but not from Costume Design (Theatre)
- Black Weighs in on What Tenure Means to UT Faculty (History)
Natural Sciences
- Inside Science: Graduate Student Speaks on Spiders’ Ballooning (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- News Sentinel: ORNL Cultivates Advanced Gum Disease Affecting Adults (Microbiology)
- Gizmodo: Ecology PhD Student Speaks on Hummingbird Courtship Paper (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- New York Times References Microbiology Professor’s Article on Viral Ecology of Earth (Microbiology)
- Newsweek: Mammals Have Been Shrinking for Thousands of Years (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
- Daily Press: Jefferson Lab Beam Facility Dedicated, Future Impact Celebrated (Physics and Astronomy)
- Sumrall Addresses Discovery of 475-Million-Year-Old Fossil (Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Top of Mind with Julie Rose and Guest, Karen Lloyd (Microbiology)
- UT Already has Tenure Assessment System, Says Plaut in KNS Op-Ed (Mathematics)
Social Sciences
- Academic Minute: Treating Opioid Addiction (Psychology)
- WXFT, Boston: 911 A Different Call for Black, White (Sociology)
- States Using Preservation Laws to Block Removal of Confederate Monuments (Geography)
- National Media Highlights Alderman’s MLK-Related Expertise (Geography)
- Tennessee Ledger Features Tree Ring Research of Grissino-Mayer Team (Geography)