![Gen. B.B. Bell, U.S. Army (ret.), chairman National Advisory Board of the Charles H. Coolidge National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, declared the center open during it's dedication ceremony.](https://our.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheLastWord.jpg)
The Uniform
Retired U.S. Army Gen. B.B. Bell first put on a military uniform during his freshman year in Army ROTC. He…
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More Than an Arts Career
UT Chattanooga’s Arts-Based Collaborative works to incorporate the arts into children’s learning.
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Diversity: A Good Start, Not the Finish Line
Robert Fisher considers an Alexander Hamilton quote as a reminder of a specific duty institutions owe to the people they…
![Shane Cotriss stands in front of the Entrepreneurship Wall of Fame at UTC](https://our.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shane-Cotriss-19-844-scaled.jpg)
The Game Changing SMILE
Through challenge, competition and encouragement, Shane Cotriss discovered a path he loved at UTC.
![David Allen Martin and Natalie Roy](https://our.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/david-martin-natalie-roy.jpg)
A Place Maker
When I first moved to Chattanooga as a college freshman in 1999, one of the things I loved about the…