Spring 2025

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Help Wanted: Your Dream

Programs from across the campuses and institutes that make up the University of Tennessee System assist entrepreneurs start their businesses.

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Young Entrepreneurs

These determined UT student entrepreneurs turned ideas into businesses, from startups to studios, proving ambition and creativity can spark success…

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Innovating for the Future

Lia Winter (Knoxville ’19) turned an innovative idea into a business, helping over a thousand orthopedic reconstruction patients—and counting.

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Changing Futures in Rural Schools

Amanda Hardin will never forget the high school student sitting across from her. For years the student struggled—exhausted from trying…

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Signing Off

Bob Kesling reflects on his 26-year career as the lead announcer of the UT Knoxville Vols Network.

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Pioneering Research Excellence

The UT Knoxville Tickle College of Engineering received a $20 million U.S. Department of Energy grant for the IMPACT project.

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