The Denise and Tim Downey Student Emergency Fund will provide limited emergency funding for UTC students facing monetary hardship.
SimCenter is open for business
The UTC SimCenter is still open and offering its services to anyone working on solutions to COVID-19. “We want to be sure everyone who might need our help reaches out to us ASAP over the next days, weeks, and months,” said SimCenter Director Anthony Skjellum. “Please reach out to me if you have any questions,…
Taking the class from a room to a computer
Setting up laboratory experiments to be shown online can be tough for organic chemistry courses but, in some ways, Dominique Belanger considers herself lucky. “I’m glad that I don’t have to learn how to teach sculpture online,” she says, laughing. Belanger is in charge of the organic chemistry program at UTC, so it’s her responsibility…
Video finds humor in frustrating circumstances
In “Prayer of a Desperate Mother,” Brandalyn Shropshire tells God that she is not a math teacher nor a cafeteria worker although her child seems to think she is. The viral video has been viewed over 15 million times.
Online program helps music students maintain a sense of community
With school concerts cancelled and ensemble practices put on hold due to the coronavirus, the Department of Performing Arts Music Division is offering an opportunity for students to participate in a new kind of band from their own homes: a virtual one.
A week without classes is a week full of learning
Students aren’t the only ones at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga learning how to use computers and software before the switch to all-online courses on Monday. Faculty are in the same boat. Between March 12 and March 19, 630 faculty members have taken training sessions from the Grayson H. Walker Center for Teaching and…
Changes taking place across the entire UTC campus
Not a class has met, but a whole lot of learning has been happening this week at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. And it’s not just students.
UTC students land 9 finalists in AP College Media awards
2019 Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors College Division contest is impressed with UTC students’ work
Speaking a foreign language is more valuable than ever
Being Bilingual Bilingual students earn 5 to 20 percent more in base pay which, depending on the language, can mean as much $128,000 over a lifetime. (MIT economist Albert Saiz) Between 2010 and 2015, the number of jobs needing bilingual applicants rose from about 240,000 to about 630,000. (New American Economy) The onset of…
Master’s in Engineering Management earns national, regional rankings
Program selected as No. 3 in country, best in the South