Anna Tenpenny admits she was “geeking.” Walking through the brand-new Kennedy Outpatient Center for the Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, not only was she dazzled with the building itself, she also gazed with wonder upon the electronic kiosks that register patients at the center. It’s a system she and two other students pitched to Erlanger officials,…
Perry sees both good and bad in the internet
If You Go What: MLK Day 2020 Keynote Address by Steve Perry When: 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 24 Where: UTC University Center Auditorium How much: Free Information: https://www.drsteveperry.org Steve Perry poses a question: Since Martin Luther King Jr. was violently denounced for his civil rights work in the 1960s, what do you think would happen…
Local high school students create art for public display
UTC Southeast Center for the Education in the Arts (SCEA) and the Challenger STEM Learning Center worked with EPB on ArtSpark.
Eliminating errors: Noelle Currey makes TVA testing more efficient
UTC’s College of Engineering alum Noelle Currey receives TVA’s highest engineering honor—the 2020 Ike Zeringue Engineer of the Year award.
New rooms offer students the chance to decompress, be calm
Seven sensory rooms scattered around UTC’s campus help alleviate stress for students.
Kaylin Underwood wins HatchIt competition with food allergy app
Kaylin Underwood creates app AllerX to help people with food allergies.
Feeding the homeless and hungry is a crusade for El Taylor
“Everyone Deserves to Be Fed” https://risingrock.net/2019/10/21/el-everyone-deserves-to-be-fed/ Even in the summer, El Taylor feels like Santa Claus. Every other week or so, she makes about 100 peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and then hits the street, handing them out to the homeless. “A lot of times, the majority of people I see are asleep, so it’s kind of like…
Looking back: 2019 was filled with important and interesting developments at UTC
A look at what took place at UTC in 2019, including campus updates, alums making impacts and faculty appointments.
Determination and dedication: Quitting was not an option for Chris Land
Chris Land wanted to be a mechanic. It was pretty much pre-destined. “Well, my whole life I have been raised in a mechanic family. So, I’ve always been under the hood of vehicles, but I planned on being a garage mechanic or something,” he said. But pre-destiny didn’t come true in his case. “When I…
Inmates to some; but students to Wright and others
Each time Haven Wright left the Bradley County or Hamilton County jails, she heard “Thank you.” Heard it a lot. “They were very appreciative. There wasn’t a day or class period that I walked out of there and they weren’t thanking me for our time because they were very grateful and they view it as…