A task force appointed to address chronic veterans’ homelessness in Chattanooga gathered recently for the first time on the UTC campus. Veterans, including students from UTC, community leaders, service providers, and city employees will work together to address housing and find funding for homeless veterans in our city. The task force meeting was held June 6.
Online engineering spotlighted by U.S. News and World Report
U.S. News and World Report included UTC as one of the top 10 Online Engineering Schools with the Most International Students.
Register for Fall 2014 Classes
Summer heat and dreams of sandy beaches may be occupying your thoughts, but be sure to sign up for classes in fall semester 2014!
MOOC technology pilot program earns continued state investment
As an experienced online lecturer at UT Chattanooga and fan of technology, Tiffany Mitchell jumped at the chance to convert her online English rhetoric and composition course to Coursera, one of two national innovators in massive open online courses (MOOCs), being used in a pilot program throughout the University of Tennessee.
UTC among universities IBM partners with to help train tomorrow’s data scientists
New programs offer business and IT skills for successful data science careers IBM announced it is partnering with 28 new business schools and universities, including The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, to help prepare students for the 4.4 million jobs that will be created worldwide to support big data by 2015.
Savings measured with new technology
Here’s a little math to ponder: in the recent past, 160 UTC classroom projectors had standard projector bulbs that cost between $300 to $400 each, and they had to be replaced every six to nine months.
Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918
Steven Cox began to appreciate the value of the journals of Emma Bell Miles shortly after he joined the UTC Library in 2001. One year before, the work of this “gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture” had been donated to UTC, and researchers began to ask if they could have a look.
Department of Biological Sciences receives anteater specimen from Nashville Zoo
The UTC Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences has a new specimen to add to its collection in the UTC Natural History Museum. A six-foot-long, nearly 100-pound one. The department recently received a specimen of a giant anteater from the Nashville Zoo. The animal died of natural causes.
Concert raises funds for UTC Veterans Entrepreneurship Program
Nashville-based band Here Come the Mummies brought their own special brand of funk to historic Engel Stadium for the second annual American Dream Concert. The event raised more than $6,000 for the Engel Foundation and the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program (VEP) at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s College of Business.
Vintage “Base Ball” comes to Engel Stadium
Built in 1930, Engel Stadium will play host to something even older than itself – vintage base ball. With vastly different rules, equipment, and terminology (even a different name, as opposed to the modern “baseball”) vintage base ball is equal parts historic reenactment and sporting event.