Manning’s Scholars
Proceeds of Peyton Manning's college football and scholar awards, totaling nearly $165,000, and other gifts to the athletics department were pooled to establish the Peyton Manning Scholarship.
Best for Baby and the Environment
As director of the Center for Clean Products at UT Knoxville's Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, Catherine Wilt (Knoxville ’88, ’89) has helped develop North America's first and only third-party environmental toy standard.
Tailored Tools
First year engineering students at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga build assistive devices for children to improve their daily routines in school and at home.
Going for Gold
With the Olympics coming up in July, we recall alumni and former students who have won gold medals. Remember these superstars from the University of Tennessee’s past?
The Birth of Bonnaroo
Born and raised in Knoxville, Ashley Capps began promoting shows in the late 1970s as a hobby. He has since become one of the most respected promoters in the music business.
A Helping Hand
At 9, Fred Heros fled Cuba with his parents and two brothers to escape the Communist regime. Five decades later he oversees a thriving dental practice and seeks opportunities to lend a helping hand.
Called to Broadway
Laura Beth Wells’ dream of being a stage actress started in Knoxville when she was a fourth-grader watching Peter Pan at the Clarence Brown Theatre on campus.
Team Hart
Fathers and sons in coaching? We’ve seen it before. Here’s something better. The Hart family includes three generations of athletics administrators.
Eat Tennessee
Before farmers’ markets became all the rage, Joe Gaines (’69, ’76) was working on a plan to make Tennessee’s small-scale producers more profitable by helping them grab a larger share of the markets.
House Designers
David Purser ('03) and Ty Lee ('04), former inhabitants of the Sigma Phi Epsilon house at UT Knoxville, returned recently to oversee the renovation of the fraternity house.
Digital Doctors
Electronic health records promise to improve patient care, reduce costly duplicative procedures, involve the patient more completely in his or her own care, and ultimately save money. But when?
Ruff Reading
HABIT volunteers take their dogs, cats and rabbits, who have been medically and behaviorally screened, to places such as nursing homes, assisted living centers, hospitals and schools.
Burning to Know
A nationally recognized fire forensic expert, David Icove earned three engineering degrees at UT Knoxville, including a doctorate, and now serves as a research professor in the College of Engineering.
Photographer’s Paradise
The tens of thousands of people and hundreds of performers at Bonnaroo provide endless subjects for photographer Rob Heller, professor of journalism and electronic media at UT Knoxville.
Your Bonnaroo Stories
The Tennessee Alumnus asked online readers to send their stories about going to Bonnaroo.
Civil War on Campus
The Hill in Knoxville was quite a different place 150 years ago — not just because it was an earlier day and time but also because the Hill was a war zone.
Life on Mars?
Could Mars ever have supported life? The rover Curiosity may reveal the answer, and two University of Tennessee scientists will be among those directing the rover’s experiments.
Degree in Three
Select academic programs at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are offering a guaranteed “Degree in Three” years to students who meet eligibility and continuation requirements.
Let There Be Light
New light soon will be shed on the UT Martin campus — literally. A $2.8 million lighting project, set for completion this September, will update and improve campus lighting as never before.
Desegregation Documented
Horace Traylor, UTC's first African-American to graduate, offers one of the student voices in a new documentary, Reaching the Light: The Story of the Desegregation of the University of Chattanooga.
Learn to be a Vet Tech
Veterinary technologists can be described as the equivalent of registered nurses in the animal world, and the vet-tech job market is expected to grow by more than 20 percent in the next six years.
Picture This: Slide into Summer
Nothing could be more refreshing than going down a water slide or floating along a lazy river. But students, faculty and staff at UTC don’t have to wait for summer.
