Summer 2022

Power T branded burgers
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A Full Plate

UTIA works to nourish the nation through its involvement with farmers and businesses all while completing research in animal, plant and food sciences.

Microbes illustrated by Annie Bakst.
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Safety Check

One UTC professor is working to speed up the time it takes to test food products and save people from unwanted bacteria.

Allen Benton
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The King of Country Ham

By following a gut feeling and fueling it with hard work and passion, one UT Knoxville alumnus has successfully been curing, smoking and aging hams since 1973.

A mountain view of Sweetens Cove golfcourse
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Born of a Ritual

Tennessee and Kentucky may not always go hand in hand, but for a glass of bourbon that tastes like sweet warm caramel and goes down like a breath-taking sunset, we will let it slide.

Faculty, staff and students await lunches prepared by students in the culinary institute.
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Full Circle at the Food Truck

UT Knoxville undergrads participate in the real-world experience provided by the Culinary Institute of Knoxville.

A student takes inventory of the incoming goods while setting up the Big Orange Pantry in 2020.
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Philanthropy in the Pantry

What if the stereotype “broke college student” described your life? This is the case far too often for many struggling students and UT food pantries are determined to end the hunger.

Members of the Tombras family alongside Chancellor Donde Plowman, Dean Joseph Mazer and Director Beth Avery Foster
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Gifts

The UT Knoxville Haslam College of Business received a $3 million gift from the Boyd Foundation to create professorships and expand the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research Endowment.