For two days in the spring, ideas are exchanged and connections are made between the community and more than 600 presenters, including UTC undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.
New Master of Public Health opens career doors
Even with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in exercise science, Mark Stoutenberg ran into something of a wall. To break through those bricks, he went back to school and earned a master of public health.
ReSEARCH Dialogues returns April 3 and 4
ONLINE For more information, click here. IF YOU GO Tuesday, April 3 8 a.m.-4 p.m. — Registration and Information, Tennessee Room Hallway 9-11 a.m. — Undergraduate and Faculty Poster and Display Presentations, Tennessee Room 9-11 a.m. — Podium and Panel Presentations, Breakout Rooms 9-11 a.m. — Undergraduate and Faculty Performance Presentations, University Center Auditorium 11 a.m.-12:30…
Inaugural 5K race set for National Graduate and Professional Student Week
Inaugural ML5K race is scheduled for Monday, April 9.
Student-led program gets local middle schoolers dancing
Through DANCE, UTC students introduce middle schoolers to alternative forms of exercise that easily fit into their lifestyle and day-to-day activities.
Deadline to apply for ReSEARCH Dialogues 2018 is February 24
UTC’s largest academic conference is back for a third year. The ReSEARCH Dialogues conference celebrates scholarship, engagement, the arts, research, creativity and humanities on campus. The deadline to apply is Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018.
Magazine of Southern perspectives, ‘Catalpa,’ calls for pitches and submissions
Unexpected, unconventional, unorthodox are some of the words used to describe a new publication from the graduate program of UTC’s English department. Titled Catalpa the publication was inspired by online and print magazines like Bitter Southerner, Oxford American and Orion.
Community of caring Mocs: UTC Fresh Check Day, encouraging open dialogues on mental health
“We think that when it comes to mental health, there’s something we can change,’ Hurst says. “But when it’s someone with an illness like Alzheimer’s, we recognize the brain as an organ and as an organ that’s under attack. So, they’re the same things. We just have different emotional responses and attitudes towards them.”
What is: I made it! UTC grad a contestant on ‘Jeopardy!’
It had been 18 months since Justin Braddock went to the audition in Atlanta and, since no one had called, he figured, “Oh well, I didn’t make the cut.” Then the phone rang last January and the caller asked if he could be in Los Angeles in February.
Student reaches new heights with internship at SpaceX
When Matt Joplin dreamed of his future career, he let his mind wander to the highest of places: outer space. He took one giant step closer to his dream by recently completing an eight-month internship at SpaceX, a California-based aerospace manufacturing and space exploration technologies company founded by Elon Musk.