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  • A painting of Maria Edgeworth from 1807.

    Dear Maria Edgeworth: Digitizing Historical Letters

    A UT Digital Humanities team leads the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project to create a digital database of the author’s history-revealing correspondence. The UT faculty-led Maria Edgeworth Letters Project (MELP) will digitize the historic and extensive correspondence of the most commercially successful novelist from the Regency period, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities…

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  • A hand holds a pen that writes against a spiral notebook.

    College-Wide: Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center

    Herbert Writing Center grows opportunities for helping Vols across campus develop professional writing skills. The Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center expanded its student-focused mission this fall thanks to ongoing engagement from the Herbert family and a new status as a college-level center for comprehensive, cross-disciplinary writing support for Vols at all academic levels. The center…

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  • A BCMB student analyzes results on the computer.

    New Program to Enhance Grad Student Career Readiness

    Graduate student training program in sciences and math gets a boost from the National Science Foundation. The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant of $399,209 to Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NSM) faculty to develop and implement a holistic disciplinary training program for first-year graduate students that enhances research, teaching, and leadership skills,…

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  • Urmila Seshagiri.

    UT Professor Shines Light on Virginia Woolf

    UT Professor Urmila Seshagiri’s scholarship provides context for Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction in The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories. A century after Virginia Woolf became a leading modernist writer, a professor from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is showing the world a new side of her, through three of the…

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  • Emma Miller stands against a University of Tennessee backdrop at the ASURes Reception.

    UT Opportunities Create T-Shaped Career Skills

    Exploring courses, internships, and other activities, Emma Miller is earning dual degrees that are built on her interests and will ensure she stands out in the workforce. Emma C. Miller is preparing to graduate from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in December with deep expertise and broad understanding, a combination that provides a strong foundation…

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  • A University of Tennessee flag flies against a cloud-filled blue sky.

    Recruiters Connect with Future Vols

    Recruitment team expansion helps share the Arts and Sciences advantage. Photo by Steven Bridges Sophia Ferguson and Tony Schnadelbach joined the college’s recruitment team earlier this year to expand engagement with new and prospective Vols. Plans are for a third recruiter to join them in spring 2026 as the college increases efforts to connect students…

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  • The University of Tennessee's torchbearer statue stands early in the morning holding a torch.

    New Professorships for 2025-2027

    New College of Arts and Sciences professorships announced for 2025-2027. Photo by Steven Bridges The College of Arts and Sciences is excited to announce new professorships for 2025–2027. These positions recognize faculty members for their exceptional academic achievements and research contributions, celebrating their roles as leaders in their departments and expertise in their specialized academic…

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  • UT Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Christine (Tina) Shepardson.

    Radicals in Early Christian Conflict Redefined

    A new book by religious studies Professor Tina Shepardson examines religious devotion and polarization within Christianity during late antiquity. Examining conflicts over Christian doctrine in the fifth and sixth centuries might provide a case study for thinking about religion and violence today, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, scholar suggests.  Tina Shepardson, UT Distinguished Professor in…

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  • Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt Earns Biosemiotics Award

    Burghardt Paper Earns Biosemiotics Award

    Burghardt paper on interpreting animal behavior earns Biosemiotics Award for 2024. Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2024 Biosemiotics Achievement Award for his contribution to a special issue of Biosemiotics, titled “Jakob von Uexküll, heterophenomenology, and behavior systems I: Core ethology and Merleau-Ponty.” In the special issue, Umwelt Theory and Phenomenology, Burghardt’s winning paper compares…

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  • Headshot of Anner Paldor

    Scholar Spotlight: Anner Paldor

    “I use computer models to predict the hidden underground flow of water, especially in terms of how it interacts with rivers, lakes, and the ocean.” Anner PaldorAssistant ProfessorDepartment of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences My research seeks to elucidate the dynamics of groundwater interactions with surface water bodies, and to better predict how these dynamics…

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