Jenny Park ’11 was recently featured in a national publication by the American Planning Association (APA). The article “New Planners on the Block” describes Park’s interesting approach to establish more public transportation resources in the Chattanooga area. She explains in the AMA article. The Master of Public Administration (MPA) alumna was working as a senior…
Alumna Kim White speaks to hundreds of business students at entrepreneurial forum
Kim White ’82 was the featured speaker at the 19th Annual Clarence E. Harris Entrepreneurial Forum, presented by the UTC College of Business. The President and CEO of River City Company and proud alumna of UTC told the students she left Chattanooga for more than 20 years, but she is glad to be back. “One…
B.B. Bell, General, United States Army (Retired), honored by DAR
Bell ’69 was presented the DAR Medal of Honor for his service to the United States and his community.
Alumnus John Gregorich named a Minor League Athletic Trainer of the Year
The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) has awarded UTC alumnus John Gregorich a 2014 Minor League Athletic Trainers of the Year Award, given annually to one member of each of the 16 leagues in Minor League Baseball.
UTC alumna Dr. Stephanie Fraley researches drivers of cancer metastasis and sepsis
Dr. Stephanie Fraley topped her Chemical Engineering class. She uses the skills she learned at UTC as a professor of Bioengineering at UC San Diego.
Fall Career Day features 88 exhibitors
88 different exhibitors met with students and alumni about full time and part time positions, internships, and graduate school.
UTC alumnus, Dr. Khaled Mattawa, named MacArthur Fellow
As a fifteen year old, Khaled Mattawa left Libya and came to the United States barely able to speak English. Just a few years later, he became a political science major at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and today he is a renowned translator, poet, and cultural ambassador. Dr. Mattawa ’89, Associate Professor in…
Alumna and playwright attends prestigious conferences to hone craft
“It can be difficult to find writing conferences that include playwriting because they usually focus on poetry or short story or things like that, so to get accepted to the two conferences I had my eye on was very exciting!” said Gaye Jeffers, Associate Professor of Theatre and UTC alumna. Jeffers attended the Yale Writers’…
UTC Finance students complete internship that takes them from the stock market to the farm
Four UTC Finance students were selected to participate in a four-week summer internship with Galtere, Ltd., the commodities-focused hedge fund of Renée Haugerud. The experience took the students from the skyscrapers in New York City to a farm in Preston, Minnesota. Stephen Reaves, Nicole Koegel, Cody Edwards, and Tyler Gallups got a firsthand experience of…
UTC alumnus makes a SPLASH with art classes
Students in Charlie Newton’s art classes make a creative SPLASH with paint inside the old James A. Henry School in Chattanooga. Newton, a professional artist and UTC art alumnus, offers the free Young Artist Community Workshop to students who live in College Courts. Michael Edward Miller takes us to the place where art provides inspiration.…