The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team have clinched a share of their first league championship since 1984. UTC is 8-3 overall, 6-2 in SoCon action, and close out the regular season at No. 1 Alabama.
Tanner named Interim Director of Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies
Dr. Mary Poston Tanner has been appointed Interim Director of the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, known for its contributions in research, collecting and analyzing data from the Chattanooga area. Tanner is the former Interim Provost and Dean of the College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies at UTC.
UTC celebrates the AT&T Tennessee distinguished scholars program
Representatives from UTC, the City of Chattanooga, the state General Assembly and AT&T™ gathered to celebrate the AT&T Distinguished Scholars Program, which provides scholarships for academically qualified low-income students.
Alumna chosen for graduate fellowship
UTC Alumna Jillian Pennyman ’13 has been chosen for the Betty Jane Narver Policy Fellowship for 2013 – 2014. Pennyman received both a B.S. and M.Ed. in Secondary Education from UTC. She is pursuing the Master’s in Education Policy.
Student team headed to national chemical car competition
For the second year in a row, the UTC student Chem-E Car team will compete on the national level. The team will travel to San Francisco, California for the competition sponsored by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
UTC voted “Best of the Best”
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was voted the Best Local University in the 2013 Chattanooga Times Free Press Best of the Best, Chattanooga’s Official People’s Choice Awards. This accolade joins several honors bestowed upon the campus recently.
SouthEast Bank awards scholarships to UTC students
SouthEast Bank and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga announce that five students have been selected to receive the SouthEast Bank Scholar award for the 2013-2014 academic year. This scholarship will provide Olivia Simmons, Jennifer Lopez, Kelsey Stansell, Danielle Ducheny, and Joshua Seaton with $5,000 annually to offset the cost of tuition and assist in accomplishing academic and personal goals.
Student composer hits successful note
Ethan McGrath listened to the choirs of St. Paul’s, Good Shepherd, and St. Timothy’s Episcopal churches in Chattanooga at their Choral Evensong event last May, not as an observer, but as the composer of the premiere of a liturgical work the three churches commissioned him to write.
UTC Department of Social Work influences social work education policy
Social Work faculty at UTC may be few, but they are mighty. Dr. Michael Sherr, the Department Head and commissioner on the Council on Social Work Education, is responsible for policy curriculum instruction for the country. Associate Professor Dr. Amy Doolittle has been appointed chairperson for the Tennessee Social Work Education Association (TSWEA), a group dedicated to uniting social work educators across Tennessee with the goal of providing quality education across the state.
ABET-ETAC accreditation awarded to the undergrad technology program
It’s official—when the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET-ETAC) accredited the BS Engineering Technology Management (ETM) program earlier this month, this achievement was especially good news—now all the undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science are accredited by ABET-ETAC.