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Grand Challenges in Tennessee

With our five campuses and two institutes, the University of Tennessee System can uniquely collaborate within the system and with…

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Kerry Witcher, Randy Boyd, Melanie Smith Taylor, and Keith Carver

UT Martin Receives Largest Gift in UT System’s History

A $79.5 million gift will allow UT Martin to increase educational program offerings in veterinary health technology and other agricultural…

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Chad Goldman pictured near the Cumberland river in Nashville

Calling for Philanthropy

Chad Goldman wants to help others find acceptance. 

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Meet the 2019-20 members of the Alumni Association Board of Governors

The Board of Governors serves as an advisory and advocacy group that works with the UT Foundation and the university…

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Department Celebrates a Century of Service

For 100 years, Agricultural and Resource Economics has been assisting agricultural producers and policymakers across the state and nation.

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A Rwandan mother and child in the Musanze District.

‘Like a Boss’

Changing lives chicken by chicken in Rwanda.

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Angela Ammerman teaches Thai children the proper way to hold the violin bow.

A More Musical World

UT Martin music education professor Angela Ammerman's life was changed after teaching violin to orphans in Thailand.

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The Tangle: Tennessee’s Opioid Crisis

In unchecked growth of prescriptions, opiates caught millions of fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in the tangle of addiction. UT…

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A Battle Worth Fighting

A discovery by UT Knoxville-based economists led to Gov. Bill Haslam developing a $30 million dollar plan to begin dealing…

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Dr. Geogy Thomas

On a Mission

In the Tennessee county hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, UT Knoxville alumnus Dr. Geogy Thomas works to help the…

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Increasing Incidents

With the majority of drug overdose deaths attributed to opioids, UT Law Enforcement Innovation Center partnered with BlueCross Blue Shield…

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Dr. Shawn Hamm

Committed

The UTHSC Center for Addiction Science battles addiction through education, clinical care, research and outreach. “It’s a work in progress,”…

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Charme Allen

Standing Up to Big Pharma

UT alumna and Knox County District Attorney General Charme Allen has taken the war against the opioid epidemic to the…

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Opioid Facts in Tennessee

Opioids, natural and synthetic, include: Opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, hydrocodone (vicodin), oxycodone (percocet), fentanyl, methadone.

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Saving the Children

Each day, more than 1,600 American teenagers take a first step into a lifelong cycle of drug addiction. UT Martin…

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Austin Holdsworth stands outdoors facing a sunset with a camera strap hanging off his right shoulder

He Had Enough

After UT Chattanooga student Austin Holdsworth lost his brother and friends to drug overdoses, he could not be quiet anymore.

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Left to right, UT Extension Agent Carrie Joyner, 4-H volunteer C.J. Bryson and Gibson County Sheriff Paul Thomas teach children about illegal and legal substances during Health Rocks. a 4-H program

Health Rocks

With the opioid epidemic killing more than 100 people in our nation daily, the UT Institute of Agriculture is fighting…

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Caty Davis

Own Your Truth

Generational addiction stalked the family of Miss Tennessee 2017 Caty Davis. But she didn’t back down.

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VOLunteering

Alternative Break celebrates 25 years of inspiring lifelong service.

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Participants in the first occupational therapy doctoral program gather after graduation.

Occupational Therapy Graduates First Doctoral Class

When UTC’s occupational therapy doctoral program launched in 2013, it was one of just eight OTD programs in the country.

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a patient gets cataract surgery at UTHSC's Hamilton Eye Institute

The Gift of Sight

Thirty people saw the world differently when they walked out of the Hamilton Eye Institute Surgery Center at UTHSC on…

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Jana Ogg (right) and Denis Ochaka

Global Outreach, Local Perspective

A UT Martin alumna learns leadership lessons.

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Cindy Ogle

The Day Life Changed Forever

Cindy Ogle (Knoxville ’73, ’78), Gatlinburg's city manager, recounts her wildfire experience.

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