UT Tackles Challenges
The UT System, with its statewide presence, people, expertise, resources and influence, is uniquely positioned to tackle grand challenges.
Grand Challenges in Tennessee
With our five campuses and two institutes, the University of Tennessee System can uniquely collaborate within the system and with communities across the state to solve problems so future generations can thrive.
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 disciplines in the near future.
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 administration on the management and direction of the UT Alumni Association.
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.
A More Musical World
UT Martin music education professor Angela Ammerman's life was changed after teaching violin to orphans in Thailand.
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 researchers, alumni and students are working to free the ensnared.
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 with the opioid crisis.
On a Mission
In the Tennessee county hardest hit by the opioid epidemic, UT Knoxville alumnus Dr. Geogy Thomas works to help the most innocent of victims—the babies addicted in the womb—along with their mothers and fathers.
Increasing Incidents
With the majority of drug overdose deaths attributed to opioids, UT Law Enforcement Innovation Center partnered with BlueCross Blue Shield of Tennessee Health Foundation to do something about it.
Committed
The UTHSC Center for Addiction Science battles addiction through education, clinical care, research and outreach. “It’s a work in progress,” the center’s program director says.
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 courtroom – the civil one.
Opioid Facts in Tennessee
Opioids, natural and synthetic, include: Opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, hydrocodone (vicodin), oxycodone (percocet), fentanyl, methadone.
Saving the Children
Each day, more than 1,600 American teenagers take a first step into a lifelong cycle of drug addiction. UT Martin alumni in Weakley County are fighting back.
He Had Enough
After UT Chattanooga student Austin Holdsworth lost his brother and friends to drug overdoses, he could not be quiet anymore.
Health Rocks
With the opioid epidemic killing more than 100 people in our nation daily, the UT Institute of Agriculture is fighting to end this crisis through education.
Own Your Truth
Generational addiction stalked the family of Miss Tennessee 2017 Caty Davis. But she didn’t back down.
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.
The Gift of Sight
Thirty people saw the world differently when they walked out of the Hamilton Eye Institute Surgery Center at UTHSC on June 2.
