Tree Worx co-owner Hannes de Wet, who graduated from UTC in 2011 with a degree in business entrepreneurship, was recently back on campus supervising tree limb removal outside Fletcher Hall.
UTC Honors College collaborates with Chattanooga on innovative solutions to citywide problems
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Honors College is joining forces with the city of Chattanooga to find new and better ways to solve some of the city’s problems. The UTC Innovations in Honors program and the Chattanooga Department of Innovation Delivery and Performance have agreed to collaborate on developing solutions to citywide challenges involving public housing and health during the 2023-2024 academic year.
Interdisciplinary research: Undergrads from across the country come to UTC to study Chattanooga’s greenways
This summer, Chattanooga’s greenways became a laboratory for 10 undergraduate students from across the country. Intertwining ecology, biology, geography and public policy, the students used their interdisciplinary research in hopes to improve the Tennessee Riverwalk and South Chickamauga Creek Greenway.
Plum assignment: Grad student documents a successful method to grow a fruit tree
While pursuing a master’s degree in environmental science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, May 2023 graduate Hannah Nelms discovered a method of propagating wild American plum trees by taking cuttings—small stems from a tree’s trunk—and getting them to root in greenhouses.
UTC GIS team maps its way to two awards
UTC GIS Director Charlie Mix won a Cartography Special Interest Group Excellence Award for “A 21st Century Park System for Chattanooga, Tennessee” at the 2023 Esri User Conference—one of two awards won by the UTC IGTLab.
Decade of distinction: UTC chosen again as ‘Tree Campus USA’
In honor of the decade-long run as a Tree Campus USA, a European horse chestnut tree—a species suggested by Dr. Hill Craddock for the occasion—was planted outside Patten Chapel on Friday, March 31.
Blue and gold go green on Mocs Express shuttles
If you think the Mocs Express buses seem quieter than usual, don’t worry, your hearing is still good. Since January, the four shuttle buses at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have been fully electric-powered, and the mechanical grumble of a diesel engine replaced by a smooth hum.
Answering Arbor Day’s call for trees
Biology students and their professors plant trees in honor of Arbor Day 2022.
UTC chosen again for Tree Campus USA designation
For the eighth straight year, UTC is chosen as a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation.
Student engineering teams earn honors in national competitions
Teams’ stormwater management projects win second place and an honorable mention.