Stephanie Fraley is a cancer researcher. Imagine the countless people she will help in her career. Now imagine if she never had the opportunity to launch that career because no one was there to help her when she needed it most. “I almost had to drop out of college for financial and family reasons,” said…
Black Alumni Voices
A virtual panel discussion featuring Black alumni from various graduation years and professional backgrounds took place as part of the UTC’s celebration of Black History Month.
College of Arts and Sciences students offered new funding opportunities
Studies in blues history, folk music and chemistry receive new funding.
Ross fights COVID-19 from ‘a broader perspective’
Dr. Pamela Ross, who graduated in 1987, is now a physician in both emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine.
Keeping hope alive, but also ‘good, healthy skepticism as a scientist’
Dr. Davey Smith isn’t absolutely sure there will be a cure for COVID-19 by the end of the year. But he’s darn sure going to try. Smith, who earned a biology degree in 1993 from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is conducting one of more than 30 clinical trials across the country that are…
UTC alumnus researches effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine on COVID-19
UTC Honors College alumnus authors hydroxychloroquine study published in New England Journal of Medicine
UTC announces new dean of College of Arts and Sciences
New dean of the College of Arts and Sciences starts July 1.
Taking learning from hands-on to online
Setting up laboratory experiments to be shown online can be tough for organic chemistry courses but, in some ways, Dominique Belanger considers herself lucky. “I’m glad that I don’t have to learn how to teach sculpture online,” she said, laughing. Belanger is in charge of the organic chemistry program at the University of Tennessee at…
Taking the class from a room to a computer
Setting up laboratory experiments to be shown online can be tough for organic chemistry courses but, in some ways, Dominique Belanger considers herself lucky. “I’m glad that I don’t have to learn how to teach sculpture online,” she says, laughing. Belanger is in charge of the organic chemistry program at UTC, so it’s her responsibility…