In the fifth annual 2021 Scholarship Recognition Event — held virtually this year — students are able to meet the benefactors who provided them with scholarships and other financial aid.
Friendship, family histories, academic passion connect Gadzekpo and Oke
Two students who are also roommates recognized as among the nation’s best.
Class philosophy: ‘Take risks and not just live by the rules’
Delali Gadzekpo’s assignment was to illustrate her family’s history, tracing it back to its roots Ghana, Africa. She couldn’t use words to describe it, though. She had to use rocks. Random rocks. The kind you find outside. Her last name means “iron sharpens wood,” she explained, so she took that and applied it to…
Honors College ranked in the Top 40 nationwide
‘Inside Honors’ compendium ranks UTC Honors College as one of the best in the country.
Identity crises and frustrations: Spring graduates share their stories
Students talk about graduating in May when COVID-19 had turned everything upside-down.
Determined amid devastation, Briana Brady has plans for the future
Briana Brady is one of five people across Tennessee who received the 2020 Harold Love Outstanding Community Service Award.
Podcast gets guys to open up about themselves
For her senior thesis, Maddi Thompson took on a tough subject: Guys expressing their feelings.
Hannah Horton heading to South Korea with scholarship in hand
Hannah Horton recently won the prestigious J. William Fulbright U.S. Student Scholar scholarship. She plans to go to South Korea with this scholarship but she doesn’t know when.
Honors College students win prestigious Goldwater scholarship
Ximena Leon and Dell Zimmerman win $7,500 prize.
Ashwyn Sam: Full-ride Knight-Hennessy scholarship pays for three years at Stanford
Ashwyn Sam admits it: He’s kind of a procrastinator. “I like to think that I like to work slow, but it’s actually procrastination,” he says with a smile in his voice. His drive to “work slow” is why, when he decided to apply to be one of the prestigious Knight-Hennessy Scholars for 2020—a scholarship worth…