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Vols Make International Art Connection
Malaysian artists share their creative community with UT artists during Big Ears Festival. Within the Big Ears Festival schedule, Pangrok Sulap plans to conduct printing sessions, open to the public, in the South Garden of the Knoxville Museum of Art during performance intermissions in the museum’s Ann and Steve Bailey Great Hall. Big Ears Festival…
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Big Ears Festival Opens Students’ Eyes
Don’t Miss This Join our students on March 27 and 28 as they take over the College of Arts and Sciences Instagram Story to share their Big Ears Festival experience. Follow us at @artssciencesut for live updates and photos from the event! For a group of undergraduates at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Big…
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New Book Examines Culture and Politics in Armenia
When Tamar Shirinian prepared to visit Armenia in 2012 her research was focused on activism, but events in the post-Soviet republic starting that year led to a closer look at politics. Over more than a decade and multiple trips to the country, she developed a new view of multiple forces at work. Now an assistant…
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Choice Overload
Does it get overwhelming? UT faculty team investigates how animals react to overwhelming options. Humans can have a lot to consider when working out the best choices for their needs: buying a car, choosing a home, or just shopping for groceries. An overwhelming number of options can give a person pause. Animals experience this same…
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Monteith Lab tracks immune response
Assistant Professor Andrew Monteith’s lab in the Department of Microbiology is documenting how key immune cells detect infection and how that fails to happen in people with lupus. Research Associate Ashley Wise led a study focused on neutrophils, the most abundant type of immune cell, and how their mitochondria function as sensory organelles to detect…
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Defense Scholarship Supports Microbiology Student
While pursuing a PhD in microbiology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Meaghan Adler knows exactly where she’ll be starting her career. The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded her a scholarship for service, providing financial support for her studies in exchange for future employment with the DoD. Adler joined the Department of Microbiology in 2023…
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Video Games Offer New View for Religious Studies
The study of religion is taking some students to the gaming lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, allowing them to simulate field work and actively engage with questions about mythological narratives, transformations, and more. For 20 students enrolled in the first offering of Religious Studies 310 Religion and Gameworlds, the week starts with a…
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We Were Here Film and Talk
Filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will present his documentary We Were Here and host a question-and-answer talk after. Acclaimed Afro-Italian filmmaker Fred Kudjo Kuwornu will present his documentary We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 6, and engage in a question-and-answer session afterward in the Lindsay…
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Expanded Douglass Day Involves Community in History
At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, celebrating Black history lifts the topic out of the textbook, highlights current scholarship on campus, and engages the community in further research. The activities are very much in the spirit of “sankofa,” a word from the African Twi language that refers to looking to the past to inform the…
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Math Teacher Honored with Presidential Award
The White House recently honored Emily McDonald (MM ’24) with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST). A Hamilton County Schools teacher since 2015, McDonald completed her Master of Mathematics degree in 2024 through an online program at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is pursuing a PhD in math education…