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Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Ayers, Mears, and Geier

Richmond taps Ayers as president, Mears dies in Knoxville, Rita Geier joins university

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Petroleum-Free in Tennessee

Petroleum-Free in Tennessee

Chad Holliday Jr. is full of enthusiasm as he surveys the crowd at the grand opening of the DuPont Tate…

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Fill'er Up with Grassoline

Fill’er Up with Grassoline

Tennessee business people, farmers, scientists, and ­political leaders have a shared vision of a statewide economy powered by ethanol.

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Academy Rewards

Academy Rewards

The Tennessee Governor's Academy for Mathematics and Science in Knoxville is a radically different kind of school.

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Alaska Adventure

Alaska Adventure

In 1956, on a lark, five UT students departed Knoxville for Alaska, where they spent the summer working in a…

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Smokey: The Top Dog

Smokey: The Top Dog

Adam Vicars never expected to follow in his older brother's paw prints when he got to the University of Tennessee,…

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The Grace of Strangers

The Grace of Strangers

It was a hot Friday afternoon in a remote village in Belize, and the UT group there on a medical…

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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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Education Changes Lives

Education Changes Lives

Meet some of the UT graduates whose lives have been dramatically changed by the education they received here.

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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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Top Shelf at Wal-Mart

Top Shelf at Wal-Mart

Perhaps no name in commerce is as well known as that of Wal-Mart, and Don Frieson has mapped his way…

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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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Beast of Eden

Beast of Eden

Ask conservation ecologist Dr. Luke Dollar to name the place he felt farthest from the UT campus, and he'll likely…

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The Power of Education

The Power of Education

When Luke Dollar discovered villagers had killed a foosa, he launched a poster campaign to "Save the fossa, save the…

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Rocky Top on the Yangtze

Rocky Top on the Yangtze

Recently my wife Kathy and I, both loyal Tennessee Volunteers since 1966, traveled to China for a vacation and Far…

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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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Counting Them Down

Counting Them Down

Yosemite. Check. Yellowstone. Check. Rocky Mountain National Park. Eugene O'Neill's home. Pinnacles National Monument. Check.

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Let's Drink to Retirement

Let’s Drink to Retirement

Ron Frieson (Knoxville '81) toasted retirement, not with a glass of wine, but with an entire wine store--his own.

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Do It Today

Do It Today

Many people say they want to travel when they retire. Globe-trotter Ginny Thigpen says, "Do it today."

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Creating a New Career

Creating a New Career

Tish Lowe (Knoxville '75, '78) followed her true passion when she moved to Florence, Italy, in 2003 to study painting.

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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bluegrass

Give Us This Day Our Daily Bluegrass

WDVX began broadcasting in 1997 from a trailer in a campground in Norris, Tennessee, about 18 miles northeast of Knoxville.

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