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.
“Like” UT President Joe
Wondering what University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro might be doing today? You can find out by looking him up on Facebook and Twitter.
Celebrating 150 Years of the Morrill Act
The Morrill Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 to create land-grant universities in the states.
Camp UT
From fossils and photography to football, University of Tennessee summer camps entertain and educate hundreds of youngsters.
Survey: Pat and Peyton
The next issue of Alumnus will feature Pat Summitt and Peyton Manning. What makes them special? How do they inspire you?
Peyton on Pat
“I think she could have coached a football team,” says Peyton Manning. Read more about Pat Summitt and Peyton in the Fall 2012 issue of the Tennessee Alumnus.
Tennessee Alumnus Digital Archive
In 1917, the first issue of Tennessee Alumnus spilled off the press of Stubley Printing Company. Nearly a century later, you can now flip through the pages of every issue at the UT library's digital archive.
Labor of Love
From the psychology behind happy marriages to advice from therapists, University of Tennessee alumni and faculty have made careers out of examining the relationship between spouses.
Trophy Case
This isn’t football. University of Tennessee students in Martin, Chattanooga and Knoxville participate in all kinds of sports, including some you might not expect.
Too Much Stuff
Admitting you’re prone to clutter is more acceptable than branding yourself a hoarder, but they’re really the same.
