Each year, we celebrate the creative and scholarly accomplishments of our alumni, their strong volunteerism, and their generosity at our annual College of Arts and Sciences Alumni and Philanthropy Awards...
Professor Lawrence A. Taylor passed away September 18 just after his 79th birthday and following his recent retirement after 46 years of service on the UT faculty. Larry was founder...
In a corner of Strong Hall, UT’s new state-of-the-art science facility, the past and the future coalesce to form the Visualization Lab, informally known as the “Mission Ops Room.” The...
As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Dawnie Steadman was restless. She wanted to understand how anthropology could help communities, but was not sure where to start. One...
Our faculty are making waves with their research, which gets local, regional, and national attention. Below are links to articles highlighting arts and sciences faculty published from May 2017 to...
Brad Nichols (’14) has always been fascinated with the stark duality of the German historical experience. “The Germans have obviously enriched our world with an almost unparalleled track record of...
In late November of 2016, a single spark started a fire on a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) that quickly became one of the largest natural...
Welcome to Higher Ground, the annual publication of the College of Arts and Sciences. Our theme this year focuses on the diversity of a liberal arts education. We adhere to...
Collecting Plants Jessica Budke’s fascination with plants stems from a family vacation to the Missouri Botanical Gardens when she was in high school. Although she grew up going to the...
Mike McKinney is always up for a challenge. When the environmental studies program he developed became part of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2011, he was on...
Michael Camponovo and Nathan McKinney joined the staff of the Department of Geography in August 2016 for one reason: to build the geographic information system (GIS) program. “Our goal is...
Wade Guyton, Meredyth Sparks, and Josh Smith, distinguished School of Art alumni, launched an innovative project called Limited Box Edition to support a new Artist-in-Residence Endowment Campaign. Limited Box Edition...
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