In the News - 2008
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- Ten UT Knoxville Professors Named AAAS Fellows; More Than Any Southern School
- Professor's Work Named Top 100 Science Story by Discover Magazine
- Science Key to Helping the Economy (Dean Bursten mentioned)
- Dawn Duke Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Dr. John Romeiser elected President of the East Tennessee Veterans Memorial Association
- College of Arts & Sciences Convocation Award Winners
- Reidy wins NEH Fellowship
- New Book Release from MIT Press
- UT Music Students Shine at State Competition
- UT Physicists Part of an Award-Winning Collaboration
- Gregory V. Button, assistant professor of anthropology, is the QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" On Sale Now at the Clarence Brown Theatre with $10 Children's Prices
- UT Knoxville Names Newest Cox Professors
- UT Band Program to host Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer
- Geography Graduate Student Named Everett S. Lee Award Winner
- UT Professor Discusses Local Impact of Climate Change on Fresh Water
- Pre-Game Faculty Showcase Explores Photosynthesis, Possibility of New Energy Sources
- John Becker interview with Cynthia Tinker and Bill Felton about ETV Memorial
- Pengcheng Dai Named JIAM Chair of Excellence
- India sends spacecrft to the Moon on Oct. 22nd; Taylor not on Board
- Pre-Game Showcase Focuses on Historical Foundation, National Identity of Iraq and Iran
- UT Honors New Chancellor's Professors
- Stephen V. Ash Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- Manhattan College to Award Doctor of Humane Letters to Thomas Heffernan
- Psychology Graduate Student Receives National Scholarship
- Lois Presser Named QUEST Scholar of the Week
- English Lecturer Bill Larsen Named Distinguished Lecturer
- Lab tool inventors win Nobel prize (Bruce Bursten cited)
- Bruce Bursten comments on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- UT Opera Theatre receives grant for STREET SCENE
- Animals Adapt Their Vocal Signals to Social Situations
- La Vinia Jennings wins Morrison Book Award
- Assistant Professor Jim McNulty chosen for Early Career Award
- UT to Host World Premiere of Appalachia Documentary
- UT Knoxville Wins Two $3M National Science Foundation Research and Education Grants
- Wesley Baldwin, Cello Studio Open UT Pre-Game Showcase
- Sally Horn (Geography) Gives Invited Lecture in Costa Rica
- Professor Thomas Burman Receives Jaques Barzun Prize for Cultural History
- UT Knoxville Wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center
- BCMB Undergrad Student to be Honored at the White House
- UT Arts and Sciences Faculty Star on Football Saturdays
- UT Knoxville Researcher's Findings Explain Genetic Disorder's Unique Shift
- UT Religious Studies Hosts Professor from Israel
- Clarence Brown Theatre Opens Season with Ain't Misbehavin'
- Reidy wins Berger Prize: Second Time in the Previous Three Awards
- Dr. Nancy Henry Joins UT English Department
- New Book Edited by Professor Dan Magilow, MFLL
- Xia Chen Named IMS Fellow
- UT Knoxville Professor Finds Unexpected Key to Flowering Plants' Diversity
- Clinical Graduate Student Receives Grant-in-aid
- New Graduate Student Receives Fellowship
- Welcome Gina Davis and Randy Atkins to the College of Arts and Sciences Development Office
- John Malone Gives Invited Classes in Sardinia
- Kristi Gordon Selected for American Psychological Association Leadership Institute
- Daniela Corbetta Appointed to 3-Year Term on NIH Study Section
- Clinical Students Featured in UT Medical Center Publication
- Union County Teacher Wins UT Enrichment Award for Environmental Learning
- Kodjo Adabra, a PhD candidate in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, has second novel published
- Lydia Mosi Selected for A 2008 Association for Women in Science (AWIS) Educational Foundation Predoctoral Award
- Microbiology Students Receive a Prestigious and Highly Competitive EID (CDC) Fellowship
- Beauvais Lyons, Ellen McClung Berry Professor of Art is a Guest Master Printmaker at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York City
- Geography Graduate Student Receives $90k NSF Fellowship
- Professor Michael Lofaro’s’ restoration of Jame’s Agee’s A Death in the Family was reviewed in this Sunday’s New York Times
- La Vinia Jennings’s Tony Morrison and the Idea of Africa published by Cambridge University Press
- History Department's Stephen Ash Publishes Fourth Book
- UT To Keep Hearing and Speech Clinic Open Based On More Than 40-Year-Old Agreement, But Budget Cut Plans Proceed
- Professor Erec R. Koch to deliver an invited lecture at the Sorbonne
- Chancellor Simek Announces Budget and Program Cuts for UT Knoxville
- UT Identifies Budget Cuts to Make Strategic Reductions
- History Department's Ernest Freeberg Publishes New Book with Harvard University Press
- Rivera-Rodas Leads Ceremony Honoring Mexican Poet, Gilberto Castellanos
- Chen receives IMS Fellowship
- Gordon Burghardt interviewed on NPR (Friday noon on WUOT)
- Marilyn Kallet's Children's Book Translated into Spanish
- Professor Millie Gimmel article in Journal of the History of Ideas
- Professor Oscar Rivera-Rodas Organizes Jornadas Internacionales de Teatro Latinoamericano & de Poesía Latinoamericana
- Professor Flavia Brizio-Skov to Deliver Paper at Antonio Tabucchi International Conference
- Recognizing outstanding academics, service and teaching in the Chemistry Department
- Audiology and Speech Pathology Department Nets Big Awards
- Award-winning Austrian Author Visits UT April 24-25
- Tandy Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
- Claxton Medallion Honors Future Teachers of the Arts and Sciences
- Arts & Sciences Students, Faculty, Staff Recognized at Chancellor's Honors 2008
- Denver Graninger appointed Rhys Carpenter Faculty Fellow at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens for 2008-2010
- Luck Be a Lady Tonight! - The Clarence Brown Theatre closes its season with Guys and Dolls
- Handelsman named to Andean Commission for Evaluation and Accreditation of Higher Education
- Daniela Corbetta interviewed by Parents Magazine
- Lydia Eckstein-Jackson, Psychology Graduate Student, Receives Fellowship
- Leonard Handler Receives Outstanding Clinical Educator Award
- UT Study Shows Couples Behave More Positively When Wife Is More Attractive Than Husband
- Goldwater Scholarship Awards
- James McNulty featured on The Today Show
- Carol Harden (Geography) Elected Vice President of AAG
- Three EEB Graduate Students Received Recognition for Their Efforts
- Dean Bursten quoted in article on chemist Ruth Benerito
- Award at Ocean Sciences Meeting for EEB grad student Xuehua Cui
- Civil War Scholar, Lincoln Expert to Speak at UT
- Dean Bruce Bursten Receives “Faculty Member of the Month" Award
- Eric Sundstrom featured in Wall Street Journal Article
- Greg Baker, Earth and Planetary Sciences, receives EEGS Early Career Award
- UT Research May Lead to Better Flu Vaccine
- Author-Professor Focuses on John Adams in UT's Klein Lecture
- Energy Conference to Highlight Role of Ethics, Responsibility
- Doug Canfield, Coordinator of the Language Resource Center, has been appointed co-editor of the IALLT Journal
- Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw selected as winner of the 2008 Edward L. Ullman Award
- On Track with the Dean
- Gordon Burghardt featured in NY Times Magazine
- UT Professor Links Psychological Research to Practice
- Dr. Koch to deliver an invited paper at "Spaces of Self in Early Modern Culture" conference
- Psychology Professor, Dawn Szymanski, article receives special recognition
- Graduate Students in Printmaking Receive National Recognition
- Arts and Sciences Dean Bursten Elected President of American Chemical Society
- Sayler, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, To Head EPA Advisory Committee
- James Fellenbaum Named Resident Conductor of Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
- Galileo at the CBT on Sale NOW!
- Bruce Bursten, President of ACS, Comments on the Centrality of Chemistry
- Scott Miller Opens Spring UT Writers in the Library Series
- R.J. Hinde appointed Part-Time Associate Dean
- Ewing Gallery Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Artist Program; UT Artist-in-Residence Munro Galloway Teaches Painting
- Interim Chancellor Named for UT Knoxville Campus