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UT Southern students organized a disability resource fair to aid families.
Grand Challenges

Enabling Change

UT campuses and institutes have combined forces to improve the lives of rural Tennesseans with developmental disabilities. At UT Southern, Assistant Professor Claire Paul coordinates the Grissom School of Education’s ... Read more

Alumni Association

What Got Them Through

The college journey shapes individuals in ways they may not fully grasp until years later. The campuses within the University of Tennessee System have served as a residence for growth ... Read more

UT System President Randy Boyd speaks to high school students on his yearly UT Promise Tour.
From the President

A Ladder Up

Listen to this story Education stands as the grand equalizer, providing a ladder up for every individual to reach for his or her highest potential. It continues to endure as ... Read more

Margaret Perry, sixth chancellor of UT Martin, watches children play outside the children's center that would be named for her.
Historically Speaking

Margaret Perry Makes History

Margaret Perry served as UT Martin’s sixth chancellor from 1986 to 1997. She was the first woman to serve as an executive officer in the University of Tennessee System and any four-year public institution in Tennessee.

Courtney Brown, UT Knoxville '23, speaks to high school students about her personal experiences as a UT Promise scholarship recipient.
The Last Word

Why Scholarships Matter

UT Knoxville graduate Courtney Brown reflects on the opportunities she found through UT Promise.

UT System President Randy Boyd speaks to high school students on the 2023 UT Promise Tour.
News and Updates

Record Enrollment Celebrated

The UT System saw all-time record enrollment this fall with 58,726 students enrolled in the System's five campuses.

Former NFL quarterback and VFL Peyton Manning (Knoxville ’97) was appointed a professor of practice in the College of Communication and Information.
News and Updates

Former Alumni Joins Faculty

Former NFL quarterback and VFL Peyton Manning (Knoxville ’97) was appointed a professor of practice in the College of Communication and Information.

Conceptual rendering of the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building, the future home of the UTC School of Nursing.
News and Updates

UTC School of Nursing Celebrates $8 Million Gift

UT Chattanooga received an $8 million gift from the Kennedy Foundation to name the UTC School of Nursing the Dorothy and Jim Kennedy Health Sciences Building.

Front row, from left: Ken Vickers, Brant Harwell, Melissa Ryckman, Cheri Thomas, Judy Cheatham, Cindy Young, Parker Phifer and Jennifer Aust. Second row, from left: Olivia Kate Willis, Emily Grace Russell and Elizabeth Mae Ayers. Third row, from left: Hunter Dunavant, Makinze Talley, Alexa Bryan and Abigail Beasley.
News and Updates

Students Join Alpha Chi

Twenty-three UT Southern students joined the Tennessee XI Chapter of Alpha Chi National Collegiate Honor Society.

Dr. Harold Conner Jr., the son of former assistant dean of students Harold Conner Sr., speaks about his father at the naming ceremony.
News and Updates

Residence Halls Named for Pioneers

UT Martin named two residence facilities in honor of pioneers Jessie Lou Arnold Pryor and Harold Conner Sr..

Dental students on their rotation in Knoxville.
News and Updates

UTHSC Dentistry Expands Clinical, Educational Profile in Tennessee

The UTHSC College of Dentistry has established new student clinical rotation sites in Crossville and Knoxville.

Hongwei Xin
News and Updates

Xin Receives Leggacy Maker Award

Hongwei Xin, Dean of UT AgResearch, was recognized at the 2023 Egg Industry Issues Forum with the Leggacy Maker Award for his commitment and achievements in advancing the egg industry ... Read more

LEIC instructor Dereck Stewart speaks to UT Knoxville Police Department Deputy Chief of Operations Mike Richardson.
News and Updates

LEIC to Extend Cultural Competency Training

A program that started on UT’s undergraduate campuses will go nationwide, thanks to a grant the Law Enforcement Innovation Center (LEIC) received from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of ... Read more

Sam Banks, Knoxville '23, assists in constructing a Habitat for Humanity house.
Feature

Home Sweet Homes

UT Knoxville resident assistants build habitat homes for 26 years.

Derek and Sierra Ezell's tiny home.
Feature

Tiny Living

UT Martin professor used tiny house living for his dissertation.

Cupcakes with white, yellow and green icing.
Feature

All-Round Education

Tennessee's 4-H Roundup celebrates a century of service.

Map of North and South America overlayed on top of landscape photo of TN hills.
Feature

Finding Home

From Brazil to Tennessee, UT supports international faculty couple.

Cap Nguyen smiles for a photo inside one of UT Chattanooga's mechatronics labs.
Feature

A Safe Haven

Cap Nguyen discovers opportunity at UTC.

Occupational therapy student Akosua Odei watches as the actor playing a patient with multiple sclerosis bats a balloon with Georgia Ray, an occupational therapy student.
Feature

Occupying Home

UTHSC students use simulated home environments to learn how to assess patient needs in a home setting and care for patients based on those assessments.

A Syrian refugee camp in Jordan.
Feature

Placemaking

UT Knoxville professor studies refugee camps' environments.

Jonathan Stewart
Feature

Hopeless No More

American job center helps build new lives.

Close-up of infant grasping a woman's hand.
Grand Challenges

Meeting the Challenge

UT Knoxville alumna runs agency that helps keep families intact.

Floyd Flippin (UT Knoxville '80, '83)
Feature

Painting Tennessee Orange

Mural Campaign Reaches Halfway Point