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
- WVLT: Harvest relationships with refugees at Knoxville garden (History)
- WVLT: UT professor says to prepare to miss classes over COVID-19 (Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures)
Natural Sciences
- Quanta Magazine: Inside Deep Undersea Rocks, Life Thrives Without the Sun (Microbiology)
- CNN: Bad to the bone: Cannibal dinosaurs turned to eating each other in tough times (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- The Guardian: Allosaurus dinosaur suspected to be scavenging cannibal (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Smithsonian Magazine: Carnivorous Dinosaurs Like Allosaurus Were Cannibals (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- National Geographic: This dinosaur may have been a cannibal, gnarly bite marks reveal (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Vice: Desperate Dinosaurs Turned to Cannibalism to Survive, Study Suggests (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Yahoo News: In lean times, fierce dinosaur Allosaurus resorted to cannibalism (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
Department News & Noteworthy Achievements
This section of Dialogue features internal news and noteworthy achievements by faculty, staff, and students in our college. If you have a news item, please email Amanda Womac.
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Jake Alexander, a graduate student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, received the Warren L. and Florence W. Calvert Memorial Scholarship from the Houston Geological Society. Read More |
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Annette Engel, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, coauthored a study published in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal mSystems. Read More |
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Susan Kalisz, professor and head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and former post-doctoral fellow Mason Heberling, now assistant curator of botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, received the Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) George Mercer Award for a paper published in February 2019. Read More |
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Mary McAplin, professor in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, was appointed to the PMLA Editorial Board. |
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Kenneth McFarland, emeritus greenhouse manager and lecturer in the UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, recently co-authored a paper in Frontiers in Plant Science titled “Population Genomics and Phylogeography of a Clonal Bryophyte With Spatially Separated Sexes and Extreme Sex Ratios.” Read More |
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Physics Graduate Student Casey Morean is among 62 graduate students nationwide recently selected for the US Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program. Read More |
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This spring, three undergraduate students in the math honors program graduated and were accepted into prestigious graduate programs for fall 2020. Read More |
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