Pre-Game Faculty Showcase
See Also: Pre-Game Showcase Flyer
Pre-Game Schedule
| Date | Title | Faculty Member | Webcast |
| September 5 | ‘Master Class-less’: BeaUTy and the Beats | Carroll Freeman Associate Professor and Director of Opera School of Music |
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| September 12 | Computational Ecology: Environmental Problem-solving for the 21st Century PICTURE |
Louis J. Gross James R. Cox Professor Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics |
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| September 26 | UT Digs Greece: New Light on the Bronze Age | Aleydis Van De Moortel Associate Pprofessor Department of Classics |
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| October 3 | The Intersection of Substance Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence | Gregory L. Stuart Associate Professor Department of Psychology |
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| October 10 | Building a Biological Camera: 3D Snapshots of a Protein | Cynthia B. Peterson Professor and Head Department of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology |
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| October 31 | All ‘Stars’: UT Actors Seek Fame and Fortune on Stage and Screen | Jed Diamond Associate Professor and Head of Acting Department of Theatre |
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| November 7 | Germs and Geology: Emerging Issues in Waterborne Pathogen Research | Larry D. McKay Jones Professor of Hydrogeology and Head Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences |
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| November 21 | James Agee at One Hundred: A Centennial Celebration | Michael A. Lofaro Lindsay Young Professor Department of English |
All-Star Faculty Line-Up
Game Day
Initiated in 1989, the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase is a public lecture series scheduled two hours before each home football game at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The programs feature 30 minute presentations by outstanding faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences on topics related to their expertise, followed by 10-15 minutes of Q & A. The carefully timed programs allow football fans to have plenty of time to enjoy the lecture and still get to the stadium by kick-off.
Faculty lectures are developed for a general audience and address timely and interesting topics. The presentations are free and open to the public and light complimentary refreshments are provided at each lecture. There is a doorprize drawing each week as well.
Guests attending the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase are greeted by the Dean of the College and staff from the College of Arts and Sciences as well as representative staff from the UT National Alumni Association. In addition, they have an opportunity to meet exceptional faculty in the College and to learn something new.
The program each year includes faculty speakers and topics from the social sciences, the natural sciences, the humanities, the fine arts and the performing arts. Faculty speakers are both outstanding scholars and teachers who often involve their students in their presentations. Although the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase celebrates its 20th year this Fall, there is not a shortage of great faculty speakers. The College of Arts and Sciences is the largest collegiate unit in the University with a large richly diverse and talented faculty; therefore, there are many faculty from which to choose from for each lecture series. The faculty speakers "showcased" each fall are simply representative of the faculty excellence throughout the College. Tennesseans are proud of their football team and the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase demonstrates they have reason to take pride in UT's academic programs, too.
Football games attract a larger and more diverse audience to campus than any other single activity and everyone is welcome to attend the Pre-Game Faculty Showcase, including fans from the opposing teams. Alumni and friends of the College and the University especially enjoy attending the lectures to take advantage of the convenient opportunity to find out more about the academic activities and programs of the College and to meet new faculty. Alumni also enjoy learning about what is going on in the departments where they studied as students and catching up on news of their favorite professors.
The Pre-Game Faculty Showcase is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences with support from WUOT 91.9 FM, the University of Tennessee Alumni Association, the University of Tennessee Office of Alumni Affairs, and the University of Tennessee Athletics.
