Dr. Elizabeth O’Brien, a UC Foundation professor and director of the School of Professional Studies in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Health, Education and Professional Studies, has been named UTC’s vice provost for faculty affairs. Her appointment is effective Jan. 2, 2026.
Mediterranean house geckos making themselves at home at UTC
If you’ve ever spotted a pale pink or brown lizard clinging to the wall of a building, or even hiding out in a sink, you’re not alone. These small reptiles with banded tails and padded toes are Mediterranean house geckos, a non-native species that has quietly made its home in Chattanooga for nearly two decades. This includes many buildings at UTC.
Pouring it on: Criminal justice students use paint to confront ethical dilemmas
Students in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Ethics in Criminal Justice course are learning about ethical decision-making the way their instructor prefers—by putting it into practice. Instead of discussing policing, courts or corrections dilemmas solely in writing, the students turned those scenarios into pour-painted canvases. Their work was then displayed publicly to raise money for a local service organization.
Power C Tour 2025 comes to a close in Chattanooga
The blue-and-gold energy at UTC was palpable on Wednesday, Nov. 12, as the Power C Tour returned to Chattanooga. The statewide recruiting tour made stops across Tennessee this fall, but the final event at UTC had a familiar, hometown feel.
UTC I-O Psychology hosts 21st Annual River Cities Industrial-Organizational Psychology Conference
The River Cities I-O Psychology (RCIO) Conference Series is an annual outreach and education initiative managed by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga M.S. degree program in Industrial and Organizational (I-O) Psychology focused on putting psychological science to work.
Rebuilding through art: Honors student finds focus after life-altering injury
As a middle schooler, Trinity Anthony was in the bottom 1% for cognitive function among children her age due to a traumatic brain injury. Today, she is a Brock Scholar in the UTC Honors College. The junior is also an art history major and a student worker in the UTC Library’s Honors Specialist program.
Gen. B.B. Bell donates life’s papers and a love story to UTC Special Collections
Retired U.S. Army Gen. Burwell Baxter “B.B.” Bell III, a 1969 graduate of the University of Chattanooga, commanded at every level from platoon to four-star general during his 39 years of service. Bell has donated his personal papers and recently published memoir, “Memoirs of a Nondescript Four-Star General: A Love Story,” to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Library’s Special Collections.
Learn the power of mapping and AI at UTC’s GIS Day workshop
GIS Day, held every year on the third Wednesday of November, will be celebrated by CAGDS with a workshop for the campus community.
Students confront the end of life to learn more about how to live
While discussing death is a taboo subject for many, for Chapel Cowden it is a course topic she embraces. Cowden, a health and science librarian and UC Foundation associate professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, teaches Perspectives on Death and Dying.
UTC named a Top Veteran-Friendly School by U.S. Veterans Magazine
U.S. Veterans Magazine has named the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga a 2025 Top Veteran-Friendly School, recognizing UTC’s campus-wide commitment to students with military ties.