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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Education, Location Impact Climate Awareness
New study shows that higher education levels combine with experiences of recent warming temperatures to increase concern about climate change in the US. A new interdisciplinary study by UT faculty shines light on how educational levels impact climate concerns in the US within communities that experience local, direct effects from the changing climate. Alex Bentley,…
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Alumna’s Gift Creates New Graduate Fellowship
A substantial gift from alumna Wanda Rushing creates the Rushing Fellows Program for the Department of Sociology. A generous gift from UT doctoral alumna Wanda Rushing establishes a new fellowship program that supports graduate students in the Department of Sociology as they work toward their master’s degrees and PhDs. For Rushing, this is both an…
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The Future of Medieval Studies
The Symposium on AI in the Humanities and Social Sciences will bring together researchers and faculty from across disciplines to share groundbreaking techniques and technology for the use of artificial intelligence in higher education. “Collaborating across disciplines in arts and sciences is essential for teaching and research using AI, as I hope our event will…
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Human Connections through Digital Space
Digital tools help build human connections and learning through UT’s collaborative Digital Project Cultivator. The Digital Project Cultivator (DPC) is a collaboration between UT Libraries and the interdisciplinary Digital Humanities program within the College of Arts and Sciences. It offers participating faculty access to the Hodges Library’s Virtual Reality (VR) Lab to enable and advance…
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ASUReS – College Of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025: Program
A Celebration of Research and Creativity by College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduates When: April 9, 2025 Time: 8:10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Where: Third / Fourth Floor, Ayres Hall Program 8:10 – 9:25 am 9:45 – 11:00 a.m. 11:20 – 12:35 pm 12:55 – 2:15 pm
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ASUReS – College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium 2025: Abstracts
A Celebration of Research and Creativity by College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduates When: April 9, 2025 Time: 8:10 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Where: Third/Fourth Floor, Ayres Hall Abstracts by Lead Presenter’s Last Name Language Attitudes Towards Appalachian, African American, and New Orleans Englishes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Co-Presenters: Izzy Alexander (English), Leighanne…
