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The Sky Isn’t the Limit for Undergraduates

Javier Gómez Marchant was surrounded by a passion for science during his childhood in Santiago, Chile, and YouTube videos drew his interest to astronomy. Undergraduate research opportunities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, cemented his interest in a career seeking to better understand the cosmos. He is graduating with a BS in physics and preparing…
Combining Passions on Way to Counseling Career

At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Jennifer Gary’s preparation for a career in counseling didn’t sideline her passion for the arts. The Franklin, Tennessee, native will graduate this spring with a double major in psychology and cinema studies. “I’ve had a love for psychology ever since high school and enjoy learning about what makes people…
Achieving Big Orange Dreams on a Fast Track

Kaden Cobb’s high school classmates nominated her as “Most likely to win an argument” among their senior class in Clarksville, Tennessee, and three years later she is headed to law school. This spring Cobb is completing a bachelor’s degree in political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after making the dean’s list every semester…
Students Flex Professional Skills in Symposium

Winning research presentations highlight professional growth opportunities for arts and sciences students. Thirty-two undergraduate students from across the College of Arts and Sciences earned top scores for their research and creative achievements during the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium (ASUReS) on April 9. Winning presentations were recognized during an awards reception on April 28.…
Burnett Joins Denbo Center as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs

UT Alumna Katharine Burnett joins Denbo Center to help grow research and public-facing programs for humanities and the arts. Katharine Burnett will join the Denbo Center for Humanities and the Arts in July as Associate Director of Transdisciplinary Programs, a role central to Denbo’s future growth. In this role, she will help support the center’s…
Armsworth Named Fellow of Ecological Society of America

Professor Paul Armsworth elected as a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. The Ecological Society of America (ESA) announced Professor Paul Armsworth, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, among its cohort of 2025 ESA Fellows. He joins seven other new fellows and 10 new early career fellows. The fellowship status recognizes the many ways…
Lessons to Learn from Fascinating Ferns

Jacob Suissa is known for his enthusiastic approach to teaching about botany, both in the classroom as a professor of evolutionary biology at UT and through the non-profit “Let’s Botanize” social-media platform. He has now channeled that green-world energy into a new book about the complex history of one of the planet’s most enduring plants.…
History Professor Receives Humboldt Research Award

History Professor Charles Sanft will spend the 2025-2026 academic year in Germany, focusing on his research into premodern Chinese manuscripts with the support of a Humboldt Research Award. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation makes up to 100 awards each year to honor internationally leading scholars from all disciplines for their work. Although the award does…
Meeting Merges Networks for Microbial Data

International group of scientists met at UT Knoxville to form a “network of networks” for microbial research. The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) hosted a meeting of 34 scientists from around the world March 20–23, 2025, to build a synthetic vision for the field of plant-microbe interactions across space, time, and levels of…
Drone Adds Detail to Crater Study

Researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have shown that when they use cameras mounted on a drone, they can develop a digital model of a crater faster and with more detail than previously possible. Their study, “A Drone-Based Thermophysical Investigation of Barringer Meteorite Crater Ejecta,” was published in the February 2025 issue of the…