A&S in the News
This section of Dialogue features external media coverage faculty, staff, and students in our college received. Links are sourced from UT System News Roundup. If you have a news item, please email Amanda Womac.
Humanities and Visual & Performing Arts
- WATE: Astronaut Scott Kelly and memoir author holding online masterclass discussion (UT Humanities Center)
- PBS American Experience: The Man Who Tried To Feed The World: A tale of good deeds and unintended consequences (History)
- Culture Type: Knoxville Museum of Art Explores ‘Intellectual Exchange’ Between Artist Beauford Delaney and Writer James Baldwin (History)
Natural Sciences
- Oak Ridge Today: ORNL researcher helps discover new species of cave snail (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Milwaukee Journal Online: Coronavirus in jails: ‘If you don’t reduce the number of arrests, you end up with a raging epidemic’ (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- com: Jails Are Coronavirus Super Spreaders, Could Double COVID-19 Death Count: Report (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- com: Coronavirus Could Claim 100,000 More Lives Than Expected if Jail Populations Are Not Reduced, Study Finds (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- ABC News: ACLU study linked to jails projects coronavirus deaths double US government estimates (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
- Politico: Driving blindly toward the exit (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology)
Social Sciences
- WBIR: Kids can feel stress from family, experts urge parents to check in (Psychology)
- Compass Knox: Bittersweet commencement (Sociology)
- National Geographic: Snakes have friends too (Psychology/EEB)
Opinion & Commentary
- UT Daily Beacon: Letter to the Editor: We Hear You UT seeks to transform SGA while amplifying student voices on campus (Ben Chumney, senior, Department of English)
- Knoxville News Sentinel: Opinion | UT faculty member recovering from COVID-19 has advice for task force (Phillip Stokes, assistant professor of Arabic, Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
Department News & Noteworthy Achievements
This section of Dialogue features internal news and noteworthy achievements by faculty, staff, and students in our college. Links are sourced from department news feeds. If you have a news item, please email Amanda Womac.
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Alex Bentley, head of the Department Anthropology, Jon Garthoff, associate professor of philosophy, and Garriy Shteynberg, an associate professor of psychology, published an interdisciplinary paper in the journal Psychological Review titled “Shared worlds and shared minds: A theory of collective learning and a psychology of common knowledge.” Read More |
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Matt Cooper, professor of neuroscience and behavior, received an NIH R15 grant for a project in which he aims to identify cellular mechanisms and neural circuits that contribute to sex differences in coping responses and stress resilience. Read More |
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Sergey Gavrilets, a distinguished professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has received more than $1.1 million in grants from the Army Research Office for study into societal resilience using evolutionary models and theories of revolution. Read More |
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Susan Kalisz, the College of Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of 2020. Read More |
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Sara Ritchey, an associate professor in the Department of History, published a co-edited volume through Amsterdam University Press titled Gender, Health, and Healing, 1250-1550, which examines both health and healing in Europe and the Mediterranean during the late middle ages and the Renaissance, focusing on the role of gender as a key player in healthcare in these periods. Read More |
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Andrew Sheehy, executive director of development for the College of Arts & Sciences, received the 2020 UT Foundation Board of Directors Award, which recognizes exemplary performance and outstanding achievement by members of the UT Foundation staff. Read More |
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Three UT physicists are among the 16 selected nationwide for the American Physical Society (APS) 5 Sigma Physicist Award. The honor recognizes APS members who have been involved with high-impact advocacy activities through the society’s Office of Government Affairs. Read More |
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