In the News - 2009
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- Alvin Rosenfeld to Visit UT
- Jeremy Rifkin to Speak about Rebuilding World Economy at UT Center’s Opening
- Ben Fitzpatrick, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is the QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Professor Jimmy Mays, Chemistry Department, to receive the 2009 Southern Chemist Award
- Undergraduate Helps Make Sense out of Disorder in a Physical Review Letters Paper
- Brad Binder, assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, is the QUEST Scholar of the Week
- National Obesity Expert to Offer Colloquium at UT
- UT Professor Burghardt’s Research Featured on PBS
- Jim Thompson, professor of physics, is the QUEST Scholar of the Week
- David Brunell, Associate Professor, School of Music, received an awesome review in the Oak Ridger
- Pamela Grace, former Philosophy graduate student, wins National Jesuit Book Award
- Stephen H. Blackwell, associate professor of Russian, is the QUEST Scholar of the Week for October 12, 2009.
- Jeffrey Kovac, Chemistry professor, was was published in the Oregonian
- UT Professor Puts Father-Daughter Incest under Investigation
- Two BCMB faculty members, Jeremy Smith and Hong Guo, publish noteworthy paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society on an enzyme that detoxifies mercury
- WUOT to air interview with Dr. Jeffrey Kovac about his recently released book
- SAMSHA grant awarded to UT Student Counseling Center
- Professor Jeff Kovac, Department of Chemistry, is quoted extensively in Chemical World
- New Research Shows Water Present Across the Moon’s Surface
- UT Digs Greece: Faculty Showcase Examines Ancient Greek Archaeology
- NIMBioS Celebrates First Year With More Than 400 Participating Scientists, Scholars
- Pregame Faculty Showcase Begins 20th Anniversary Series on High Note
- UT Physicists Help Earn an R&D 100 Award for Superconducting Wires
- Lynn Sacco, Assistant Professor of History, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- UT Community Invited to Sculpture Dedication Event September 11
- UT Physics Department Bringing Physics to Fentress County
- Maria Armento receives APA Division 36 Dissertation Award
- UT Sociology Graduate, Dima Sarbo, Receives Prestigious Oxford- Princeton Fellowship
- Professor John Romeiser Receives Award on Behalf of ETVMA
- UT Research Questions Ties Between Immigration and Violence
- Christine Holmlund, Professor of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Martin Griffin, Assistant Professor of English, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- UT Researchers' Statistical Model Predicts Sotomayor Will Be Most Liberal Justice
- Religious Studies Department Hosts Israeli Professor
- Alvin Burstein, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology referenced in New York Times article
- Alumnus Makes Public Art Contribution to Campus; Sculpture Being Installed This Week
- Carol Harden, Professor of Geography, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- New UT Knoxville Research Finds Possible Genetic Link to Cause of Pregnancy Loss and Disorders
- Two Psychology Graduate Students Receive National Awards
- Gordon Burghardt, Professor, Department of Psychology, Cited in National Publication
- Kate Jones, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Clinical Assistant Professor elected President of APA Division 39
- Gordon Burghardt elected President of APA Division 6
- Clinical faculty member accepts Invitation to 2009 Science Leadership Conference
- Kate Jones Wins Outstanding Junior Investigator Award
- Ernest Freeberg, Associate Professor, Department of History, has review of his book published in New York Times Book Review
- Appointment of Professor Robert Daverman as Interim Associate Dean
- Erik Zinser Invited to Join the Editorial Board of Environmental Microbiology/Environmental Microbiology Reports
- Professor Chris Holmlund was elected President of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
- Erin O'Brien (B.A. in French) was recently chosen by the Alliance Française of Nashville to participate in their teaching internship program in Deauville, France
- Sergey Gavrilets, Distinguished Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, the Associate Director for Scientific Activities at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), and a Guggenheim Fellow for 2008-2009, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Capacity Crowd Expected for UT Arts and Sciences Commencement Honoring Dolly Parton
- Another History Mystery Solved: UT Jackson Papers Project Editor Helps New York Attorney General Recover Stolen Letter
- Dr. Thomas Riesing Appointed Guest Professor at Beihang University in Beijing
- Dr. Thomas Riesing Selected as the Recipient of the 2009 Alumni Achievement Award in Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska
- Tricia Redeker Hepner, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Dr. Gregory S. Baker, Jones/Bibee Associate Professor of Geophysics, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Dr. Jered Sprecher, Assistant Professor in the School of Art, Receives Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- Chancellor's Honors
- Dr. Witold Nazarewicz, Professor of Physics, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- La Vinia Jennings’ Cambridge book, Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa, receives the CLA Outstanding Book Award for 2009
- Norton Anthology of Drama, co-edited by Stan Garner, is now available
- Dr. William J. Dewey receives Fulbright Award
- Carol Harden, Professor of Geography, has been elected President of the Association of American Geographers
- UT physicists help organize Quark Matter 2009 Conference
- Heather Douglas, an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Erec R. Koch, Professor of French and Department Head of MFLL, to give lecture at Sorbonne, Paris
- Dr. Darrin Hulsey, Assistant Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Don Hough Receives the Neill Humfeld Award from the ITA
- Dr. Bruce Ralston, Geography, Named Recipient of 2009 GIS Champion Award
- Dawn Coleman Named AAAS Visiting Scholar for 2009-10
- Dr. Neal Shover, Professor in Sociology, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- UT Professor's Book Nominated for Los Angeles Times Book Prize
- Affrilachian Poets Movement Comes to Knoxville
- UT's 2009 Milton Klein Lecture to Feature Yale Professor John Demos
- Alumna Nancy-Ann Min DeParle Tapped to be Health Care Czar
- Millie Gimmel, Assistant Professor, MFLL, Receives NEH Summer Stipend
- Professor Cheryl Travis appointed to APA Board of Educational Affairs
- Professor M. Handelsman Participates in International Panels on Ecuador
- Katie Little, Psychology Graduate Student, Selected for EARA/SRA Summer School
- English Graduate Student Josh Robbins wins James Wright Poetry Prize
- Two UT Knoxville Faculty Named National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
- UT Research Foundation Recognizes 20 Knoxville-area Patent Recipients
- Dr. Robert Stillman, Professor in English, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Dr. Jon Shefner, Associate Professor in Sociology, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Mary McAlpin, Associate Professor of French, elected to the Modern Languages Association Divisional Committee on Eighteenth-Century French Studies
- Kallet Poetry Reading Begins Writers in the Library Series Next Week
- Dr. Chris Fedo, Earth and Planetary Sciences, studies Earth's origins in Greenland
- Review of Jeff Norrell’s new book, Up from History
- Dr. Elizabeth E. Howell, Professor in BCMB, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Tickets for the Romantic Comedy "The Triumph of Love" On Sale Now!
- Dr. Millie Gimmel, Assistant Professor in Spanish, Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Margaret Lazarus Dean, of the English department, has received a $25,000 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing
- Jackson Papers Project Helps Solve History Mystery
- Bill Bass to Speak at UT Lifelong Learning Event This Week
- UTK Mathematics Graduate Student's Research Highlighted in in the Journal Nature
- History Department's Lorri Glover Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Clarence Brown Theatre to Hold Free Staged Reading of New Play The Olive Grove
- UT Program Looks at Legacies of Japanese Internment
- Rosalind I.J. Hackett Named QUEST Scholar of the Week