First Lady Visits UT, Praises ‘Grow Your Own’ Collaboration
First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited UT Knoxville in September to recognize Tennessee’s Grow Your Own teacher pipeline program.
Former Tennessee Governors Host a New Podcast Series
The Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy launched You Might Be Right, a new podcast series hosted by former Tennessee governors Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam.
Fine Arts Center Reopens After Four Years of Renovations
The 456-seat Roland Hayes Concert Hall and the 256- seat Dorothy Hackett Ward Theatre are finished, and performances are returning.
UTS Special Education Students Spread Fire
UT Southern students studying to teach special education developed the FIRE (Fostering Inclusion through Resource Efforts) resource fair for disability services on the campus in an effort to help eliminate barriers to receiving services.
Latimer-Smith Building Dedicated
The $65 million, 120,000-square-foot, three-story building will house the departments of chemistry and physics, computer science, engineering, mathematics and statistics, and the pre-professional health sciences program.
Historic Investiture Held
Peter Buckley has been formally installed as the 11th chancellor of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
UTIA Establishes New School of Natural Resources
The Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries (FWF) will be named the School of Natural Resources.
CTAS Hosts Orientation for Newly Elected County Officials
Close to 800 newly elected county officials gathered in Franklin in August to ready themselves to take office.

The Troubadour and the Songstress
Music weaves throughout this UT Knoxville couple’s story of a friendship turned to love.

Carried in His Heart
UT Libraries purchased Beauford Delaney’s personal archives to bring the Harlem Renaissance painter home.

Whispering Truth
A UT Martin and UT College of Law graduate stood on the wings of a stage this summer to witness the words of Fredrick Douglass come to life and years of work fulfilled.

From Tunes to Letters
The Tennessee Language Center uses music, literature and calligraphy to help students learn.

A Different Drummer
UTHSC’s dental faculty can often be found behind the mic, the guitar and the keyboards as The Dentones.

Like Magic
This UT Southern and UT Chattanooga graduate always knew she wanted to be a writer, but the Simon and Schuster/Atheneum author with two books to her credit still finds it a little unreal.

More Than an Arts Career
UT Chattanooga’s Arts-Based Collaborative works to incorporate the arts into children’s learning.

Expressions of Art on UT Campuses
A collection of photos showing UT Students across UT campuses performing and participating in various art forms.

Making Beautiful Music
Band members from across the UT System found it life changing and now they help change others’ lives.

UT Board of Trustees Approves Zero Percent Tuition Increase
The UT Board of Trustees has once again approved an across-the-board, zero percent tuition increase for its campuses across the state.

ACE “train the trainers” event held at UT Knoxville
The ACE “train the trainers” workshop was held in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) and the UT–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute this summer.



