For the seventh straight year, the UTC SMILE Fund team took home top honors in the CFA Institute’s Greater Tennessee Research Challenge.
For engineering faculty member, “Why stop at just teaching when you can do more?”
For the majority of non-tenure-track faculty, the emphasis is on teaching and service. In year five of her teaching career, Dr. Sandra Affare wants to move up from an adjunct role.
Women’s Leadership Academy to highlight Women’s History Month’s “March Through History”
UTC will host events all month long—and even in the days leading up to March—celebrating the influence of women on culture both historically and currently as part of Women’s History Month.
Honors College honor: O’Dea featured in new humanities lecture series
Before a packed audience in the Guerry Center Reading Room on Feb. 24, the inaugural O’Dea Lecture in the Humanities series sponsored by the UTC Honors College kicked off. UC Foundation Professor of English Gregory O’Dea gave his talk titled “Humanities in the Wild: Reintroducing a Vital Species of Thought.”
Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage registration opens on March 1
The 73rd Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a dynamic program with over 120 experts leading 200-plus educational opportunities, will take place April 26-29.
UTC duo land significant summer fellowships
Two UTC juniors, Emma Sprayberry and Jannat Saeed, have been awarded Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) fellowships, a rigorous academic graduate-level preparation program for undergraduate juniors committed to public service careers.
Town Hall event spotlights ‘A Moc’s First Year’
A Town Hall kickoff event introducing the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus community to the University’s upcoming reaccreditation visit was held on Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the University Center Chattanooga Room. More than 200 faculty, staff and students attended the event, which focused on the upcoming Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on…
Beating hearts: Lightfoot, Howard Baptiste spread the word about heart health
With February being American Heart Month, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Engagement Stacy Lightfoot and Vice Provost for Academic Outreach Shewanee Howard-Baptiste have been spreading the word on behalf of the American Hearth Association to increase awareness of heart and cardiovascular disease and how to prevent it.
School record seven UTC students/alums selected as Fulbright semifinalists
Seven University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students or recent graduates have advanced to the semifinal level in the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award process, the highest total in the University’s history.
UTC lecturer committed to ‘demystifying’ the language of chemistry
After a 26-year career at the DuPont chemical company, Becca Stimson is now in her second decade as a non-tenure-track faculty member at UTC, serving as an associate lecturer of chemistry and the general chemistry laboratory director.