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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.

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Staying Connected

CIS Partners with UT Tickle College of Engineering, Chattanooga Company to improve internet access.

Suresh Babu, center, works with students on the MELD Machine inside the Machine Tool Research Center.
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Advancing The Nation

UT Knoxville has risen as a leader in advanced manufacturing research with efforts focused on national security and economic development.

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Plant Dreams

AgCenter for Synthetic Biology ‘reprograms’ plants to do new things.

Julian Cosner
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Nipping it in the Bud

Doctoral student studies hemp pest management.

David Anderson, Ady the dog, Jack Lacey and Ed Pershing
The Last Word

A Partnership to Health

A talk with Jack Lacey and Ed Pershing.

Monuments dedication to the National Pan-Hellenic Council
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Points of Pride

Nine new monuments dedicated to UTK’s National Pan-Hellenic Council now have a permanent location along Johnson-Ward Pedestrian Walkway.

Shipping continers arranged in a colorful grid
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The Challenge in a Granola Bar

Defining, teaching, managing (and improving) global supply chains.

Emma Jo Eversole greets the crowd on horseback at Dolly Parton's Stampede
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Learning the Trick

Emma Jo Eversole reaches her goal of becoming trick rider.

A group of students, alumni and officals cut the ribbon in front of two UT residence halls
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Points of Pride

A record number of Vols began their semester at UT Knoxville, topping 31,000 students.

Nan Gaylord speaks to a patient at the Vine School Health Center, a place where Knox County school children receive comprehensive health care.
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Creating a Healthy World

During the past 25 years, Nan Gaylord has witnessed just about everything in the waiting room at Knoxville’s Vine School Health Center.

Two gloved hands carefully hande documents from 1919 unsealed from a time capsule
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Time Travelers

UT's time capsules celebrate bygone eras.

Troy Galyon on Mount Katahdidn, the terminl point of the Appalachian trail
The Last Word

Better World

We all want to do our part to make the world a better place, but more often than not, we struggle to find our specific area of talent.

The McClanahan family in front of their barn
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Family Linked to UT Since 1946

An “Everywhere You Look, UT” mural shows pride.

the patented Easy Whip device
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Alumni Invention to Help Surgery Patients

Lia Winter and Preston Dishner refined their innovative medical device throughout their time in the MS–MBA program at UT Knoxville.

Three men seated on a stage announce a new partnership
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Growing a Startup Community

The new Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator will work with 30 startups over the next three years that use clean energy, artificial intelligence, big data, cybersecurity, digital currency, 5G and other innovations to transform society.

Kyle McCormick examines material evidence in Laos
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A Nation’s Promise

A forensic anthropologist searches the world for service members to keep the United States’ promise.

An older man leans on his elbow against a tabe in a barn
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Stress and Agriculture

Not everything is idyllic out on the farm. A new network through UT Extension will offer support.

Paula Temple in her studio surrounded by her art
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Art Unfenced

When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down indoor galleries in France, Paula Temple took her talents to the streets and opened a sidewalk gallery.

Jennifer and Brian Winbigler
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A Better Place

Jennifer and Brian Winbigler hope their efforts create not only a brighter future for their children, but also the rest of the world.

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Loosening the Grip on the Big Life Plan

Erin Zammett Ruddy learned some life skills in her 20s that also helped her face the pandemic. Just don’t ask about the laundry.

Two students walk up the steps leading to Robinson Hall
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Two Residence Halls Renamed for Black Trailblazers

Two residence halls are named for Theotis Robinson and Rita Sanders Geier, two African American trailblazers whose fight for equity and social justice transformed the state’s higher education system and the university.