Over three hours, UTC students, faculty, staff—basically anyone who was there at the time—were given the chance to pet a host of animals, including goats, rabbits, donkeys, sheep and Highland cows, native to Scotland, and an alpaca, native to South America.
If at first you succeed: UTC chemistry professor lands research grant on initial attempt
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ben Stein was awarded a $322,375 grant from the NIH for the project entitled, “Characterization of non-canonical regulatory pathways in the Caulobacter NtrYX signaling system.” The NIH Research Enhancement Award, known as an R15, is only the second received by a UTC faculty member in recent years.
Observatory spruces up after reopening this fall
At 84 years old, the Clarence T. Jones Observatory in Brainerd is getting a bit of nip-and-tuck. Signs have been replaced with the same lettering as signs on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, which owns and operates the observatory and its space-piercing telescope—once the largest in the Southeast.
UTC grad wins ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ on Food Network
Janel Fields, a biochemistry graduate from UTC, won a Food Network cooking show.
Honors on a roll: 3 UTC students land prestigious awards
A trio of UTC students will be spending the summer participating in distinguished university research programs.