Graduate Student Spotlights
Graduate students in our college choose from more than 50 programs when they join the UT community. We offer strong curricula and our faculty mentors provide supervision and opportunities for...
Category: Social Sciences
The Pandemic Puzzle
Nina Fefferman loves puzzles. Not the 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzles some of us attempted to piece together during lockdown, but the puzzle of trying to explain the world around her. As...
A Welcoming Place for All
When Althea Murphy-Price, an associate professor of art, came to UT in 2010, colleagues – including minority faculty from other departments — reached out to her and made her feel...
Diversity in Action
At UT, we are committed to the success of each one of our students, and we want people to bring their authentic self to our campus. We are committed to...
Introducing the College of Arts and Sciences
The College of Arts and Sciences is the gateway to knowledge for every undergraduate student at UT. We are the largest, most diverse college and a central driver of the...
Faculty Bookshelf
The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis: An Integrative Approach Benjamin Auerbach, Department of Anthropology Cambridge University Press, 2020 A Demon-Haunted Land Monica Black, Department of History Metropolitan Books, 2020...
Coping with Covid
We are at the end of one of the most complicated semesters we have faced as a Volunteer community. I am proud of the way our faculty, staff, and students...
Soaking up the Sun
As more solar power is being generated and used than ever before, managing its growth, and the policies governing its use, requires a better understanding of the factors driving that...
News & Noteworthy
Arts & Humanities News Kirsten Benson, director of the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center, received the Paul E. Trentham, Sr. Library Partner Award during the UT Libraries Virtual Spirit Awards...
UT National Champions
The award-winning Tennessee Speech and Debate Society (TSDS) launched its season September 21, 2019, kicking off its fourth annual alumni-led workshop with the announcement of a new endowment named for...
PiPES: Outreach as Service
Department of Psychology Historically, people in Appalachia have limited access to healthcare and public health education, which contribute to increased incidences of disease and shorter lifespans than the conventional population...
Model UN Program
Department of Political Science Applying skills learned in the classroom to real-world scenarios is the goal of experiential learning at UT. Students in the Department of Political Science excel at...
