Arts & Culture

The Long March Home

The Long March Home

An unconventional look at the civil rights movement.

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Take Two Aspirin and Write a Novel

Take Two Aspirin and Write a Novel

A physician segues into literary territory

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Birds of the Smokies

Birds of the Smokies

UT recognizes the 75th anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a new exhibit.

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Remembering Sarah Booth Conroy

Remembering Sarah Booth Conroy

UT's first woman journalism graduate left her mark on the Washington Post.

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Lady Vols: In the Beginning

Lady Vols: In the Beginning

In only three decades old, the Lady Vols have given us thrills, chills, championships, and many accomplished lives.

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Bookshelf

Bookshelf

Steve Ash's history of a black Civil War regiment and A. Scott Pearson's medical science-fiction thriller.

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Long Live QE2

Long Live QE2

“We sailed into Dubai in the afternoon on November 26,” Stew Bystrzycki (Knoxville ’04) said. “The sail in was amazing."

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Warhol, STEM Growth, and Haslam Scholars

Warhol, STEM Growth, and Haslam Scholars

The Campaign for Tennessee, a new Warhol exhibit, a look at the Haslam Scholars, and more in the latest installment…

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Home is Where the Art Is

Home is Where the Art Is

Anna Maria Horner is a homemaker in the oldest, and newest, sense of the word.

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Your Last Name

Your Last Name

From her home in Cary, North Carolina, Kelly Utt-Grubb runs a one-of-a-kind business: a family naming resource.

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Farewell Music for the QE2

Farewell Music for the QE2

Two alumni hitched a ride on the Queen Elizabeth 2's final round-the-world cruise and did it with a song in…

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A Bit of UT at America's Theme Parks

A Bit of UT at America’s Theme Parks

These UT alumni who work with Disney, Dollywood, and Sea World Orlando would love to welcome you.

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Ancient Bronzes, A Farm of the Future, and a Couple Updates

Ancient Bronzes, A Farm of the Future, and a Couple Updates

Objects from long ago and far away promise a tantalizing museum experience this summer at UT Knoxville.

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The Pleasure is All Mine

The Pleasure is All Mine

Research scientist Jonathan Balcombe posits in his book Pleasurable Kingdom that humans aren't the only animals capable of feeling pleasure.

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Set to Rights

Dr. Michael Lofaro is editing a new series of James Agee’s work, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in…

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Leadership Changes, Forensic Anthropology, and Sour Grapes

Leadership Changes, Forensic Anthropology, and Sour Grapes

Jan Simek steps in as interim Chancellor, forensic science on display, and UT's efforts to put Tennessee wine on the…

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Surely They Jest: Three alumni who always have their wit about them

Surely They Jest: Three alumni who always have their wit about them

Three UT alumni, Carl Wolfson, Leanne Morgan, and Dale Henry, are making their livings by making others laugh.

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The Campaign for Tennessee Gains Momentum

The Campaign for Tennessee Gains Momentum

A prodigy in many respects, Clarence Leon Brown received special permission to enter UT at the age of 15.

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A Smoky Mountain Queen

A Smoky Mountain Queen

I gave my first reading of my children's novel, Gentle's Holler, in Sylva, North Carolina, in the spring of 2005.

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Homegrown Music

Homegrown Music

For Molly Erickson, a trained opera singer and an associate professor, attending concerts is more than fun--it's research.

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Fuels, Funds, and a Solved Mystery

Fuels, Funds, and a Solved Mystery

UT is a leader in the development of alternative fuels, and Dr. Bill Bass has solved the mystery of "The…

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McCarthy Mainstreamed

McCarthy Mainstreamed

For years Cormac McCarthy, ­Knoxville's most famous living literary son, had something of a cult following. The secret is now…

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Sounds of Centuries Past

Sounds of Centuries Past

One of the world's premier ­musical ensembles will bring its extraordinary talents to the university's Knoxville campus this fall.

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