Honoring Our Alumni
Our alumni are vital members of the university community and ambassadors for UT Knoxville. Their Volunteer spirit is a tradition shared by more than 260,000 alumni worldwide – more than...
Author: College of Arts & Sciences
Tiny Fish Makes Big Splash
On October 4, 2022, the snail darter, Persina tanasi Etnier, was removed from the endangered species list nearly 47 years to the day after being listed October 9, 1975. The...
New Research Cluster to Focus on AI
In 1968, Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke introduced HAL 9000, a sentient, artificial general intelligence computer that controls the Discovery One spacecraft in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the...
Undergraduate Student Excellence
As Tennessee’s flagship university, we have a commitment to light the way for others and to serve as a catalyst for opportunities – on our campus and in communities near...
Research Round-Up
Faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences engage in world-class research, scholarship, and creative work that expands the frontiers of knowledge to create a more just, prosperous, and sustainable...
Faculty Bookshelf
Derek Alderman, Professor of Geography Remembering Enslavement: Reassembling the Southern Plantation Museum Published by UGA Press, 2022 “What the authors successfully do is offer guides, site managers, and visitors a...
TCUS + A&S
Our continued partnership with The Conversation provides our faculty with opportunities to share their research and creative activity expertise and inform public debate through responsible, ethical, and relevant evidence-based journalism....
Celebrating 100 Years of Ayres Hall
Ayres Hall: ‘Fond Memories and the Promise of Future Great Things’ A little more than 100 years ago, the University of Tennessee demolished the much-loved Old College building to construct...
Leaders and Legacy: Hodges and Africana Studies at UT
John and Carolyn Hodges have a long history with UT’s Department of Africana Studies.
Setting the Stage for the Future of Theatre at UT
The first thing Jenny Boyd noticed about the Carousel Theatre when she walked into it for a school trip to see Annie Get Your Gun in the 1960s was the...
Reflections from the Dean
In each edition of Higher Ground, we offer stories on a theme. This year, reflection is our theme and, as I thought about what to share with you, I found...
Faculty Spotlights
Nicole Eggers, an assistant professor of history, is an expert on African history and is fluent in Swahili. She received the College of Arts and Sciences 2020 Faculty Academic Outreach Service...
