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UTC lecturer committed to ‘demystifying’ the language of chemistry

February 8, 2023Chuck Wasserstrom

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.

Welcome back: New year, new semester

January 13, 2023Photos by Angela Foster

Students returning to UTC for the spring 2023 semester were treated to a series of Winter Welcome Week activities.

If at first you succeed: UTC chemistry professor lands research grant on initial attempt

November 17, 2022Shawn Ryan

Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ben Stein was awarded a $322,375 grant from the NIH for the project entitled, “Characterization of non-canonical regulatory pathways in the Caulobacter NtrYX signaling system.” The NIH Research Enhancement Award, known as an R15, is only the second received by a UTC faculty member in recent years.

Observatory spruces up after reopening this fall

October 26, 2022Shawn Ryan

At 84 years old, the Clarence T. Jones Observatory in Brainerd is getting a bit of nip-and-tuck. Signs have been replaced with the same lettering as signs on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which owns and operates the observatory and its space-piercing telescope—once the largest in the Southeast.

UTC grad wins ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ on Food Network

August 12, 2022Shawn Ryan

Janel Fields, a biochemistry graduate from UTC, won a Food Network cooking show.

For 20 years, Gretchen Potts has been building relationships across campus

August 9, 2022Chuck Wasserstrom

Gretchen Potts, UC Foundation Professor of Chemistry and the department head for Biology, Geology and Environmental Science, is celebrating her 20th anniversary at UTC.