
UTK College of Arts & Sciences We would like to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Get in the holiday spirit! The School of Music is holding a benefit concert to raise money for the program’s scholarship funds.The Holiday Musicale will be held at the Foundry at the World’s Fair Park from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. It will feature a wide variety of music performed by students and faculty of th...e School of Music, along with holiday food and drink.
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The School of Music is holding a benefit concert to help raise money for the program's scholarship funds. Just in time for the holiday season, the Holiday Musicale will be held at the Foundry at the World’s Fair site from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6. Reservations must be made by Tuesday, Dec. 1.

UTK College of Arts & Sciences A nearly $2 million grant to UT Knoxville is being used to launch VolsTeach, a program that will enhance the quality of science and math education in Tennessee while training more teachers in these key subjects. It's about making Tennessee and the U.S. more competitive on the global playing field!
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UT Knoxville will receive as much as $1.8 million from the National Math and Science Initiative to launch VolsTeach, a new program to improve the quantity and quality of mathematics and science teachers. ...

UTK College of Arts & Sciences It's not a "Little Shop of Horrors", it's the Clarence Brown Theatre's Facebook page. Become a fan to find out about upcoming performances and behind the scenes details of UT Knoxville's professional theatre company.
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UTK College of Arts & Sciences Jeremy Rifkin, president and founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, will speak at the inaugural event for the Center for the Study of Social Justice at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the University Center Ballroom.
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Jeremy Rifkin, president and founder of the Foundation on Economic Trends, will speak at the inaugural event for the UT Knoxville Center for the Study of Social Justice at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 in the University Center Ballroom. ...

UTK College of Arts & Sciences With the goal of shedding light on society’s most pressing social issues, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has formed the Center for the Study of Social Justice.
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With the goal of shedding light on society's most pressing social issues, UT Knoxville has formed the Center for the Study of Social Justice. Based in UT's Department of Sociology, the center provides ...

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Contaminated groundwater is a global problem. Learn about the innovative solutions UT is investigating at this week's Pre-Game Faculty Showcase with Dr. Larry McKay.
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Larry McKay, head of the UT Knoxville's earth and planetary sciences department, will lead this week's College of Arts and Sciences Pregame Faculty Showcase. The presentation focuses on McKay's research of the movement of viruses and bacteria in groundwater and streams. McKay's presentation,

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Aleydis Van de Moortel, Associate Professor of Classics, will lead a discussion on her archaeological work from the prehistoric site of Mitrou, Greece at the Pregame Faculty Showcase. This week’s presentation takes place Saturday, Sept. 26, before the Vols home game against Ohio University. It begins at 5 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom.
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Arts and Sciences Pregame Faculty Showcase continues this week with Aleydis Van de Moortel, associate professor of classics. She will lead a discussion on her archaeological work from the prehistoric site of Mitrou, Greece, this Saturday, Sept. ...

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Dr. Louis J. Gross, James R. Cox Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, and Director of NIMBios
Pictured, left to right: Dr. Louis Gross, Alex Perkins*, and Dr. Bruce E. Bursten, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
* Alexis Perkins is a 2006 graduate of the College S...cholars Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at UT Knoxville, whose focus was in Computational and Mathematical Ecology directed by Dr. Louis Gross and Dr. Susan Riechert (Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Alex is from Elizabethton, Tennessee, who is currently in the Ph.D. program in one of the world's top rated programs in ecology at the University of California, Davis, and is the holder of a prestigious Department of Energy Computational Sciences Graduate Fellowship. He is visiting Oak Ridge National Laboratory and NIMBios this fall as part of his Fellowship. Dr. Gross said, “I am very, very proud to have been involved in Alex’s education; he is a fine example of interdisciplinary education at UT Knoxville.”

UTK College of Arts & Sciences The UT community is invited to a dedication event for the new sculpture on campus on Friday, September 11. The event starts at 10:15 a.m. on the Johnson-Ward Pedestrian Mall, near the Clarence Brown Theatre. We hope to see you there!
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The UT community is invited to a dedication event for A Startling Whirlwind of Opportunity, the new sculpture on the UT Knoxville campus, at 10:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 11, at the Pedestrian Mall. The artist, Alice Aycock, and the donor, alumnus Wilton D. ...

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Thanks to an innovative application of distance learning, 30 college-bound science students in Fentress County were able to engage in exercises illustrating the laws of physics.
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For Tammara Garrett, a high school senior in Fentress County, Tennessee, “doing a lot of electromagnetic stuff and viewing the ultraviolet spectrum” became a welcome part of her day in this rural community ...

UTK College of Arts & Sciences UT Sociology Graduate, Dima Sarbo, Receives Prestigious Oxford- Princeton Fellowship
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville was founded in 1794 and was designated the state land-grant institution in 1879. The University now has nearly 26,000 students and 400 academic programs.

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Clinical graduate student Maria Armento has received a "seed grant" award from Division 36 (Psychology of Religion) of the American Psychological Association.

UTK College of Arts & Sciences Outdoor Welcome Week events scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 19, have been moved to their rain locations. Visit the Welcome Week website for more info!
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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville was founded in 1794 and was designated the state land-grant institution in 1879. The University now has nearly 26,000 students and 400 academic programs.




























