Arts & Culture

Two women standing behind a table laid out with water bottles.

Hydration for the Soul

A UT Southern poetry wellness initiative offered students water and poems during midterms, using the humanities to promote mental health,…

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A collage of flower photos.

Botanical Photography of Alan Heilman

The botanical photography of Alan Heilman preserves a UT Knoxville professor’s lifelong passion for plants, blending scientific expertise and artistic…

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A man, wearing glasses and a gray suit, sits alone in a theatre filled with rows of red seats.

Behind the Curtain

Leon Scioscia (Martin ’76) caught the bug at an early age to write plays and make a living in the…

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Free to Think

Jim Fieser launched the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy in 1995, now boasting over 900 peer-reviewed articles and 7 million global…

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Stack of novels by author William Bass.

Founder of the UTK Body Farm

UT Knoxville Professor Emeritus William Bass made history in 1981 by founding the world’s first decomposition research lab, revolutionizing forensic…

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A crowd of attendees fill the Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center.

UTK tops Attendance Records

UT Knoxville topped national attendance records across football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball events during the 2023-24 season.

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A black female student wearing graduation robes and cap smiles while waiting for the commencement ceremony to begin.

UTS Seniors Leave Lasting Legacy

On graduation day at UT Southern, 56 seniors donned red and orange cords showing they participated in the Senior Giving…

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Six aero engineering students stand for a photo holding up their red and blue electric motor-propelled aircraft.

UTM Aero Team Shines

The UT Martin aero engineering team took fifth place at the 2023-24 Society of Automotive Engineers Aero Design Competition.

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A Sacred Space

UT Southern children's literature conference continues teacher's love of students.

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Ink in the Blood

UT Martin alumnus Daniel Richardson enjoys the challenge of small-town newspapers.

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Writing from a Blue Flame

UT Knoxville alumna Monica Brashears' gothic novel named as one of the best books in 2023.

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Middle and high school students took classes and studied a range of music before giving a concert during UT Southern's first music camp.

UTS Hosts First Summer Music Camp

Middle and high school students from Giles County and beyond participated in UT Southern’s first summer music camp in June.

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Ellie and Drew Holcomb

The Troubadour and the Songstress

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

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

Carried in His Heart

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

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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

Whispering Truth

A UT Martin and UT College of Law graduate stood on the wings of a stage this summer to witness…

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

Abloom with Art

UT Gardens feature art to inspire and teach.

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Jessica Miller. Photo By Dustin Kramer

Like Magic

This UT Southern and UT Chattanooga graduate always knew she wanted to be a writer, but the Simon and Schuster/Atheneum…

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Expressions of Art on UT Campuses photo collage

Expressions of Art on UT Campuses

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

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UTC marching band

Making Beautiful Music

Band members from across the UT System found it life changing and now they help change others’ lives.

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An artistic rendering of UT Martin’s TEST Hub

TEST Hub Approved

The Tennessee General Assembly approved $18 million in a budget appropriations amendment to completely fund UT Martin’s proposed Tennessee Entrepreneurial…

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Emma Jo Eversole greets the crowd on horseback at Dolly Parton's Stampede

Learning the Trick

Emma Jo Eversole reaches her goal of becoming trick rider.

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the patented Easy Whip device

Alumni Invention to Help Surgery Patients

Lia Winter and Preston Dishner refined their innovative medical device throughout their time in the MS–MBA program at UT Knoxville.

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Paula Temple in her studio surrounded by her art

Art Unfenced

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down indoor galleries in France, Paula Temple took her talents to the streets and opened…

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