Maestro Jooyong Ahn will conduct the UTC Symphony Orchestra Saturday, February 7 as it joins with Grammy-winning trumpeter Dr. David Spencer and UTC piano professor Dr. Sin-Hsing Tsai for a concert in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall at the UTC Fine Arts Center (corner of Palmetto and Vine St.) The concert begins at 8 p.m.…
John Nagl, acclaimed author, to speak on campus Feb. 3
Dr. John Nagl, the acclaimed author of Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam, will speak at the UTC University Center’s Raccoon Mountain Room on Tuesday, February 3, at 12:15 p.m. Nagl, a 1988 West Point graduate, Rhodes Scholar, former Army colonel, and Bronze Star recipient will speak on…
UTC Saxophone Quartet to Appear at US Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium
The UTC Saxophone Quartet will be traveling to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, to appear on the program of the 2009 32nd Annual United States Navy Band’s International Saxophone Symposium on January 24. The UTC group will join such prestigious quartets as groups from the Universities of Michigan, South Carolina, Bowling Green State, SUNY…
Ebbe to present “Global Trafficking in Women and Children” Jan. 22
A child slave ring between Haiti and New York became the focus of a recent episode of “Law and Order” on NBC, and soon this topic will be discussed on campus. On Thursday, January 22, Dr. Obi N. I. Ebbe will present “Global Trafficking in Women and Children” from 12:15-1:30 p.m. in the Raccoon Mountain…
Music Department welcomes guest pianist on Jan. 20
The UTC Department of Music welcomes guest artist and pianist Dr. Catherine Godes on Tuesday, January 20, to the Roland Hayes Concert Hall, UTC Fine Arts Center at the corner of Palmetto and Vine Streets. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. and is open to the public free of charge.
Dept. of Art 2009 Juried Student Exhibition opens Jan. 6
The UTC Department of Art 2009 Juried Student Exhibition will be available for viewing in the Cress Gallery of Art through January 25.
UTC represented at Volkswagen expo
UTC was among the partners represented at the Volkswagen career and supplier expo, where the line of applicants waiting to be considered spilled into the hallway and wrapped around the Chattanooga Convention Center Thursday, November 20.
New online mapping service announced
The Southeast Watershed Forum and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga are launching a new and valuable resource for land and water protection. The Community Resource Mapper provides a free, user-friendly, online mapping service that will help communities integrate natural resource protection into land-use planning efforts.
UTC biology department hosts 2008 Society for Conservation Biology meeting
International green movement leaders representing more than 50 countries chose Chattanooga for the summer 2008 Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) annual meeting. More than 1,500 biologists, scientists, economists, policy makers, and conservationists will examine the earth “From the mountains to the sea,” the theme created by Dr. David Aborn, associate professor in The University of…
Dr. Thomas P. Wilson hosts research student scientist from China
In pursuit of research in chelonian conservation, Fei Yan Zhang, a student scientist from China in the Asian Scholarship Program (ASP), has come to visit Dr. Thomas P. Wilson in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Wilson and research scientists in Florida and Mississippi have hosted students in ASP, begun in 2000 and primarily…