This year, Brock Scholars students went to two conferences for the first time, the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) and the Southern Regional Honors Council (SRHC).
Mocs Bass Anglers reel in a whopper, snag the win in final hour
Lance Geren, an Engineering Technology Management student, and Robbie Moore, a business major, won the Carhartt Bassmaster College Series Eastern Regional on Watts Barr Lake, part of the five-day BASSfest event.
Solomon Puryear learns on the job at WHBQ FOX13 in Memphis
Solomon C. Puryear is learning all about the television industry while he earns a degree in engineering management technology at UTC.
ThinkAchieve course offers experiential learning in San Salvador, Bahamas
Leah Keith-Houle’s Red Bank High School students are learning to map with a purpose. Unlike most mappers who are white males between 30-45 years old, Keith-Houle’s students are often young black women and men who are 16 years old. They tested their skills when they formed a Humanitarian Outreach Team (HOT) for OpenStreetMap (OSM). With this open source program, they’ve mapped Padang, Indonesia, for tsunami preparedness and Washington, Illinois, for tornado first responders.
Mocs named Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision Preseason All-American
Senior defensive end Davis Tull, senior tight end Faysal Shafaat and senior defensive tackle Derrick Lott were named to the 2014 The Sports Network Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Preseason All-America Team, marking the second year in a row that the Mocs had three preseason selections.
Sigma Kappa at UTC wins prestigious national award
Sigma Kappa at UTC was recently recognized as one of two chapters in the nation to achieve the highest ranking on the sorority’s Standards of Excellence. UTC’s Theta Phi chapter was awarded three stars for the highest level of achievement in academic performance, leadership, enhancement, skill development, and a variety of other aspects.
A new look for Zachary’s exercise train
A 12-year old boy with multiple developmental, speech, and feeding delays in Soddy Daisy needed to exercise on a climbing structure at his home, but his parents said it wasn’t very interesting or fun to use. A group of UTC engineering students in Dr. Cecelia Wigal’s first year Design Project class discovered Zachary loves trains,…
Orientations continue throughout summer
UTC is now boarding the Class of 2018 and transfer students for “Flight School!” The University’s orientation programs are designed not only to prepare you for academic success at the University, but will also familiarize you with its many resources as well as the spirit, colors, and tradition that make Chattanooga so unique.
UTC graduate “bottles emotions” for innovative art project
Fill in the blank: Love is ______. Did the word “blind” come to mind? What about “patient?” Or “war?” For recent UTC graduate Taylor Kinser, love is glitter. And marshmallows. With a little pink paint, sequins, and soap suds too. Kinser’s conceptual art project, “Bottled Emotions,” explores the idea of creating and packaging an intangible product—our emotions.
UTC Power ‘C’ travels the world this summer
Since the spring semester ended in April, UTC students have spread out across the globe for summer vacation. Coast to coast, from Maine to San Francisco, and overseas to South Africa, Croatia, and Germany among others, Mocs in gold and blue can be seen all over the world during the break.