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From Clouds Comes Rain -- and More

From Clouds Comes Rain — and More

The cloud formations above East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains and the moving water below are, in fact, closely linked.

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More Than Child's Play

More Than Child’s Play

Dan White, a UT Knoxville philosophy graduate living in Can Tho, Vietnam, grinned as he surveyed the familiar scene before…

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Leadership Changes, Forensic Anthropology, and Sour Grapes

Leadership Changes, Forensic Anthropology, and Sour Grapes

Jan Simek steps in as interim Chancellor, forensic science on display, and UT's efforts to put Tennessee wine on the…

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Walter Chadwick and a Host of Volunteers

Walter Chadwick and a Host of Volunteers

This is a story of courage, faith, and friendship that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "a host…

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UT Goes to China

UT Goes to China

Educating students to succeed in the global workplace isn't just a lofty slogan. Today it's a necessity.

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Surely They Jest: Three alumni who always have their wit about them

Surely They Jest: Three alumni who always have their wit about them

Three UT alumni, Carl Wolfson, Leanne Morgan, and Dale Henry, are making their livings by making others laugh.

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Wilson Has a Taste for Leadership

Wilson Has a Taste for Leadership

America's palate is becoming more sophisticated, and Alan Wilson is in the business of satisfying the nation's taste buds.

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Still Volunteers After All These Years: Brumfiel and Warmath

Still Volunteers After All These Years: Brumfiel and Warmath

In a retirement center near Minneapolis, three residents get together to cheer on the Vols every time a game is…

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Ready to Go Out on the Town

Ready to Go Out on the Town

Wade Tosh was named the town administrator of Dover four months before he finished his Master of Public Administration degree.

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The Busy-ness of Being Smokey

Logan Durham is having a rough -- or, maybe that's "ruff" -- year. And he's enjoying every moment of it.

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Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Richmond taps Ayers as president, Mears dies in Knoxville, Rita Geier joins university

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Petroleum-Free in Tennessee

Petroleum-Free in Tennessee

Chad Holliday Jr. is full of enthusiasm as he surveys the crowd at the grand opening of the DuPont Tate…

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Fill'er Up with Grassoline

Fill’er Up with Grassoline

Tennessee business people, farmers, scientists, and ­political leaders have a shared vision of a statewide economy powered by ethanol.

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Alaska Adventure

Alaska Adventure

In 1956, on a lark, five UT students departed Knoxville for Alaska, where they spent the summer working in a…

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Smokey: The Top Dog

Smokey: The Top Dog

Adam Vicars never expected to follow in his older brother's paw prints when he got to the University of Tennessee,…

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The Grace of Strangers

The Grace of Strangers

It was a hot Friday afternoon in a remote village in Belize, and the UT group there on a medical…

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The Campaign for Tennessee Gains Momentum

The Campaign for Tennessee Gains Momentum

A prodigy in many respects, Clarence Leon Brown received special permission to enter UT at the age of 15.

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Homegrown Music

Homegrown Music

For Molly Erickson, a trained opera singer and an associate professor, attending concerts is more than fun--it's research.

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Fuels, Funds, and a Solved Mystery

Fuels, Funds, and a Solved Mystery

UT is a leader in the development of alternative fuels, and Dr. Bill Bass has solved the mystery of "The…

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Top Shelf at Wal-Mart

Top Shelf at Wal-Mart

Perhaps no name in commerce is as well known as that of Wal-Mart, and Don Frieson has mapped his way…

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McCarthy Mainstreamed

McCarthy Mainstreamed

For years Cormac McCarthy, ­Knoxville's most famous living literary son, had something of a cult following. The secret is now…

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Beast of Eden

Beast of Eden

Ask conservation ecologist Dr. Luke Dollar to name the place he felt farthest from the UT campus, and he'll likely…

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The Power of Education

The Power of Education

When Luke Dollar discovered villagers had killed a foosa, he launched a poster campaign to "Save the fossa, save the…

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