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Jack on the Rocks statue in front of the Cave Spring opening at the Jack Daniel Distillery.
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Whiskey and Trees

Jack Daniels needs specific trees to create its iconic whiskey. UTIA has been there to help ensure the brand can continue for many more generations.

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Making An Impact

The UT Research Foundation moves ideas and discoveries by faculty, staff and students from the laboratories and classrooms to the marketplace.

Ellie and Drew Holcomb
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The Troubadour and the Songstress

Music weaves throughout this UT Knoxville couple’s story of a friendship turned to love.

Beauford Delaney (Knoxville 1901-1979 Paris), Abstraction #12, 1963, Oil on canvas, 51 ½ x 38 ½ inches, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2018 purchase
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Carried in His Heart

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

Hands playing the piano
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A Musical Revolution

A UTC alumna uses music to change health care.

Featured photo: Left, Cornelius Smith Jr. (Frederick Douglass) in American Prophet, which ran July 15-Aug. 28 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater in Washington, D.C. Photo By Margot Sschulman
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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.

Maya Campbell, Spanish instructor
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From Tunes to Letters

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

Eli Norrod plays with the alphabet wheels at Plateau Discovery Gardens in Crossville
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Abloom with Art

UT Gardens feature art to inspire and teach.

Left to right: Darryl Jones, James Ragain, Ron Staples (seated), Mark Anderson, Vernon Pennington, Kyle Fagala, Tim Lanier (seated right front)
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A Different Drummer

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

Jessica Miller. Photo By Dustin Kramer
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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.

Arts in Tennessee
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Arts In Tennessee

The arts make an impact in Tennessee.

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.

Power T branded burgers
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A Full Plate

UTIA works to nourish the nation through its involvement with farmers and businesses all while completing research in animal, plant and food sciences.

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.

Allen Benton
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The King of Country Ham

By following a gut feeling and fueling it with hard work and passion, one UT Knoxville alumnus has successfully been curing, smoking and aging hams since 1973.

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Ah-Ha Moments

A CIS resource consultant had a light bulb turn on, or maybe off, when he realized the amount of energy efficient opportunities that could be implemented in food industry operations.

Kitchen 218 owners Jake and Michelle Pfeiffer pose outside their new restaurant in downtown Pulaski.
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Middle of Somewhere

It’s more than a restaurant start-up story. It’s a passion for a hometown and a desire to see it revitalized.

Camille James, Ernest Trice, Regina Dowell and Karen King.
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Digging In

A community that grows produce together, stays together. At least this is how it is going for the residents of Frayser through implementing a community garden with the help of UTHSC.

A pair of hands holding peanuts.
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Going Nuts

What do you think of when you hear food allergy? Peanuts. One UT Martin alumna is working to combat the common allergy.

A mountain view of Sweetens Cove golfcourse
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Born of a Ritual

Tennessee and Kentucky may not always go hand in hand, but for a glass of bourbon that tastes like sweet warm caramel and goes down like a breath-taking sunset, we will let it slide.

Faculty, staff and students await lunches prepared by students in the culinary institute.
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Full Circle at the Food Truck

UT Knoxville undergrads participate in the real-world experience provided by the Culinary Institute of Knoxville.

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Tennessee Agriculture

From the rolling mountains in the East to the fertile delta in the West, Tennessee contributes to the feeding of the world.

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A Fish Story

UT Martin aids in researching Asian Carp.