Senior Sami Belcher’s idea caught the attention of judges who selected her poster-making business—Halfway Down Design Co.—as the winner of the recent Student Fly! Pitch Contest, held in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Overcoming adversity: Mechatronics student Fatimah Musa won’t let visual impairment hold her back
UTC mechatronics student Fatimah Musa was born with cone-rod dystrophy—a type of inherited retinal degeneration affecting the retina’s photoreceptor cells. Musa said “visually impaired” is usually the correct term for her case, “but I generalize myself as blind because blind does include the visually impaired.”
Summer school: UTC freshman awarded University of Chicago research opportunity
Sebastian Jimenez, a Brock Scholar in the Honors College majoring in biology and chemistry, will be participating in a National Science Foundation-funded summer research program at the University of Chicago.
Worth the wait: UTC grad Jared Steiman lands Fulbright scholarship
Jared Steiman, a 2020 University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduate who now works as a GEAR UP program coordinator in the UTC Center for Community Career Education, became the second UTC alum in recent weeks to be awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. He will be traveling to Mexico in the fall to assist in teaching English while representing the U.S. as a cultural ambassador.
Children’s Center a learning environment for UTC student workers
The Children’s Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has paid positions for UTC student workers. The center is adjacent to Brown Academy on the south side of campus, convenient for student workers between classes.
Chattanooga’s checkup: Assessing the health of Hamilton County
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is collaborating with the Hamilton County Health Department to conduct the most comprehensive health assessment in the county’s history.
New course designed to recognize the importance of adaptive programming
Described as a perspective learning course, Adapted Physical Education offers different points of view toward better understanding adaptive physical activities and the importance of incorporating adaptive activities to enable involvement for everyone. The course debuted at UTC this semester.
Research springs to life at Spring Research and Arts Conference
You name it, the subject was probably discussed during the UTC Spring Research and Arts Conference. About 500 students, faculty and staff presented the results of their semester-long research projects.
Decathlon Top 10: Interior Architecture and Engineering students design cost efficient, comfortable home
An eight-member team of students from the Department of Interior Architecture and Design and the College of Engineering and Computer Science is one of 10 finalists in the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2023 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge to design a house to be energy- and cost-efficient while also a comfortable living space.
Heading to nationals, UTC Mock Trial dives into the deep end together
For the fourth time in eight years, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Mock Trial team has advanced to the national championship tournament. The tournament, which takes place April 14-16 in Memphis at host site Rhodes College, features 48 mock trial teams from across the country.