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Expressions of Art on UT Campuses photo collage
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Expressions of Art on UT Campuses

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

Microbes illustrated by Annie Bakst.
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Safety Check

One UTC professor is working to speed up the time it takes to test food products and save people from unwanted bacteria.

UTC Professor of Psychology Ralph Hood
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Religious Right Down to DNA

UTC professor investigates impact of religion.

Students working on an engineering project.
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Getting Hands Dirty

Engineering students find solutions for local rehab facility.

Samaria Grandberry stands in an outdoor cafe
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Prescribing Produce as Medicine

UTC alumna blazes trails as dietician.

Mark Schorr, UTC professor of biology, geology and environmental science, works to determine stream quality with UTC students Kendra Keller, left, and Jasmin Barton-Holt.
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Fishing the Stream

UTC professor Mark Schorr and his students research creek water quality.

Two gloved hands carefully hande documents from 1919 unsealed from a time capsule
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Time Travelers

UT's time capsules celebrate bygone eras.

A blonde UTC nursing student gives the Covid vaccine to a patient
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Part of the Solution

Sometimes as many as 400 people came in a four-hour shift for a COVID-19 vaccine. UTC nursing students kept the syringes filled and spirits high.

A Black woman seated in front of a microscope smiles confidently in her research lab
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Making Space

A UTC professor buzzes with ways of expanding diversity in the field of ecology.

Billy Weeks and Marielle Echavez
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Chattanooga’s Rising Rock

Even before she came to college, Marielle Echavez enjoyed making videos. One class at UTC changed her career plans.

photos of a young orangutan with a tricycle and wearing a diaper on a jungle gym
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Escape Artist

In the 1980s an orangutan named Chantek charmed the UTC campus.

Katie Baker Picciuto
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Award Winner

Nationally recognized teacher Katie Picciuto praises her UTC career preparation.

teacher materials, colored pencils, golden delicious apple and a globe
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From Strength to Strength

UT System hosts teacher preparation convening.

Colleen Ryan works with a student
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“A-ha!”

The classroom experience is eye opening for future teachers.

Interior view of the entrance of Patten Chapel from the front altar
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Heart of Campus

Patten Chapel beats with love and loss.

Carrie Woods speaks to Crucial Conversation program participants.
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Let’s Talk

Crucial Conversations delivered to domestic violence shelters.

Glenn Draper in his office with memories of his career as a choral director in 2016.
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The Family Business

Glenn Draper didn’t just train singers, he built a legacy.

Austin Holdsworth stands outdoors facing a sunset with a camera strap hanging off his right shoulder
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He Had Enough

After UT Chattanooga student Austin Holdsworth lost his brother and friends to drug overdoses, he could not be quiet anymore.

Jerry Bear in front of a map of the Ocoee River
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Flowing

A UTC alumnus engineers the Ocoee River.

Jordan Harris stands in the center of the pedestrian walkway in front of Hodges Library in Knoxville
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The Next Mission

As the number of veterans attending UT rises, campuses are providing them with help to conquer the move from military to college life.

Scott Kramer
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The Forgotten Majority

After being diagnosed with autism at age 40, UTC alumnus Scott Kramer now spends his time helping other adults with the same diagnosis.

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Consciousness of Streams

Four researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga could hardly be more conscious of streams. And what flows through them.

John Tucker
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Water is Future

Multi-faceted and entangled issues of water quality, environment and now increasingly the law have implications for Tennessee’s future. They certainly have John Tucker’s attention.