UTC Student Government Association recently honored 113 students at the 2014 Outstanding Senior Awards Ceremony. This annual event recognizes seniors who have made significant contributions and accomplished outstanding achievements within their degree programs. In addition to being honored, students were also asked to invite a favorite professor to attend the ceremony.
Student receives Honorable Mention for the Goldwater Scholarship
Adrianna Eder has received an Honorable Mention for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, the premier undergraduate scholarship for students conducting research in the sciences.
Congratulations to UTC SoCon Champs
UTC Women’s Basketball and the UTC wrestling team have done it again—congratulations to these student athletes for winning their Southern Conference Tournament Championships!
UTC music professor honored in international and national composition contests
Dr. Kenyon Wilson, former Fulbright Scholar and Associate Professor of Low Brass and Music Theory, has won first place in one international and two national composer composition contests. Wilson has been with the UTC Department of Music faculty for more than a decade.
A real find: UTC scientist names beetle in honor of Darwin
Charles Darwin is not only known as the father of evolution, he also has a reputation as an excellent field biologist. On his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle from 1831-1836, he stopped along the coast of Argentina at Bahía Blanca, approximately 400 miles south of Buenos Aires. Among the many specimens he collected was a beetle that’s been lost for a long time, but was recently found by UTC Associate Professor Dr. Stylianos Chatzimanolis, who works in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Dean of UTC College of Business receives honorary doctorate in Kenya
Nearly thirty years to the day after he received his first degree from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, UTC College of Business Dean Robert Dooley received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya.
Richard Jackson publishes two new poetry books
Dr Richard Jackson, UTNAA Professor of English, is publishing his eleventh book of poetry, Out of Place.
Two recent grads hired to grow sports tourism in Chattanooga
UTC alumni Patrick Sutton and Brant Donlon are teaming up for the Chattanooga Sports Committee to grow sports tourism in the Scenic City. They graduated in December 2013 and landed newly created positions.
Black male student initiative boosts retention and graduation rates
A highly structured program focused on more than success in the classroom is increasing the number of black male graduates at UTC.
Student Support Services (SSS) launched the University’s first-ever black male initiative, Black Males on Campus (BMOCS) in fall 2010 to promote the retention of black male students so that they can succeed and graduate from UTC. Not only does this program focus on success in the classroom, it also addresses social, cultural, emotional, personal and financial issues.
Tell me a story: Alumnus wins awards for his photography
The first time award-winning photojournalist Billy Weeks ’84 flew to Central America, he was on assignment for the U.S. military in 1999. He was bound for El Salvador, where American troops were helping to rebuild schools and buildings in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch.