For students of UTC Assistant Professor and Athletic Training Clinical Education Coordinator Lynette Carlson, the proverbial picture is worth a thousand words. Or many more. Two years ago amid the pandemic, Carlson hatched the idea of single-slide graphic novels—four-panel comic strips drawn by a now-former student—to teach cultural competencies such as ethics, compassion and humility.
Celebration event brings Butterfield Fellows cohort to campus
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Education held a dinner and reception on May 23 to congratulate the 2023-2024 Butterfield Fellows, a group of local educators selected for their exemplary classroom management practices supporting children and teacher education.
A family affair: Schenks have an unbroken connection to UTC
Dru Schenk, who recently graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, is a third-generation UTC alum.
Food and engineering come together in iNEST program
The iNEST program at UTC includes various research projects on food safety, techno-economic analysis of food protein production, food product development, bioenergy production from food waste, emerging food processing technology, food structure analysis and food and nutrition.
UTC revamps, restarts master’s degree in music program
The redesigned master’s degree in music program at UTC will make it easier for graduate students who also are full-time teachers to earn master’s degrees. The program offers both face-to-face and online classes. In-person courses begin with the UTC Summer Pedagogy and Conducting Institutes’ one-week sessions in June.
From engineer to educator: Dr. Aleisha McCallie breaks into administration through UTC School Leadership program
Now the principal of Tyner Middle Academy, Dr. Aleisha McCallie rose from the classroom to education’s version of the boardroom thanks, in part, to the School Leadership post-master’s program she completed at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in 2020.
UTC professor, students helping Chattanooga Police decrease gun crimes
The Chattanooga Police Department began tracking gun crimes closely after violence skyrocketed in 2016. But a data-crunching partnership with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga created four years later shows marked decreases in gun-related crimes and could be preventing future crimes by taking guns off the street.
UTC among coalition awarded NSF grant funding to outline a statewide mobility strategy
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is one of 90 organizations within a statewide coalition awarded National Science Foundation funding through its Regional Innovation Engines program. The coalition, Advancing Technology-Enabled Mobility Solutions (ATEMS-TN), is an alliance of academics, industry and technical societies that will put the $1 million “Type-1” NSF award toward outlining a statewide transportation mobility strategy to position Tennessee to compete for up to $160 million in federal funding awarded in 2025 to implement that strategy.
UTC a core partner in Kentucky, Tennessee “GAME Change” team awarded $1 million NSF grant
An alliance of Kentucky and Tennessee universities and partner entities make up the Generate Advanced Manufacturing Excellence for Change (GAME Change) coalition that has been awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has a “core partner” role in the coalition led by the University of Kentucky.
Saying bonjour to opportunity, UTC school leadership grad lands job as division head of French-American school
Dawn Callahan took the reigns as the division head of the French-American School of New York middle school in 2022, the same year she graduated from the School Leadership program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.