When Aggie Toppins, head of the art department, first came to UTC as a professor, she taught a class for design students called Co-Creations. One of the class projects was about bicycles. Students in the class set their sights on the public-use green-and-blue bikes stationed throughout Chattanooga. No one asked the students why bicycles. Rather,…
Cicadas are good indicators of environmental quality
Cicadas are good indicators of environmental quality, including city life.
2 Decades of Encouragement: GEAR UP promotes college to kids
The GEAR UP program helps middle through high schoolers get ready for college—or even get them interested in going if they haven’t been before.
Hear the stories of Chattanooga at StoryCorps Listening Party
StoryCorps Listening Party When: 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18 Where: Songbirds Guitar Museum North Stage, 35 Station St. Chattanooga Admission: Free, but you must register at wutc.org. Information: wutc.org or storycorps.org Want to hear the stories of your Chattanooga neighbors? About their marriages? Their jobs? Their ups and downs? In other words, their lives?…
A Hand for Homeless Heads: UTC freshman develops outreach program
UTC student Felix Gould, with help from local hairstylists, created a program that gives haircuts to the homeless.
Engineering students conceptualize and build Music Wall for the disabled
UTC engineering students create interactive music wall for Open Arms Care, whose clients include those with mental and physical disabilities.
Chattanooga gets some love from New York City
The Big Apple writes some very nice things about Chattanooga and its renaissance.
UTC and Smart Cities Initiative wins a national award
Top of the Class The winners in the Smart Cities North American Awards are: Education UTC — Chattanooga, Tennessee Administration Get It Done Expansion — San Diego, California Civic Engagement Smart Living in the Windy City — Chicago, Illinois Digital Equity and Accessibility NYCx Co-Labs in Brownsville — Borough of Brooklyn and Neighborhood of Brownsville,…
‘They need you,’ UTC grad tells School of Education students
It took “The Lion King” to convince Angela Davis to write a book.
UTC grad students in historic group to meet U.S. lawmakers
Two UTC grad students among historic first group to advocate for support of graduate education.