By Amanda Morgan Fann Change. I have never liked it, but I know I cannot stop the inevitable, only adjust and grow from it. When I first heard the word “coronavirus” in January, I never fathomed that it would outbreak in the United States, much less shape the entire way we live our everyday lives.…
Happy Earth Day, Mocs!
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day and while COVID-19 prevents us from celebrating #EarthDay as we usually do, we pulled together a few ways that UTC continues to increase sustainability efforts.
UTC music grad gaining international recognition
To learn more about McGrath, go to his website at: www.ethanmcgrath.com. By Jordan Hicks First-Year Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts Ethan McGrath enrolled at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in the fall of 2012 as a music composition major. Having previously taken piano lessons from the late professor Sin-Hsing Tsai, he…
UTC represented in global CoVent-19 Challenge
With the race on to close the gap between demand and supply of ventilators for COVID-19 patients around the world, expertise from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has jumped into a competition to design a game-changer. The “CoVent-19 Challenge,” launched on April 1, is hosted by medical residents in anesthesia at prestigious Massachusetts General…
Chancellor’s, Blue and Gold Award winners announced
UTC Chancellor Steve Angle presents year-end awards to three students.
$4.75 million to support UTC students affected by COVID-19
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga will dedicate $4.7 million of funding it receives from the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act to support students with demonstrated need and who face significant financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. UTC will receive additional CARES funding for a total of $9,513,779. It’s not…
Nursing students raise money for tornado victims
With a logo of the Chattanooga skyline designed by Becca Watts, as of today—Monday, April 20—almost 600 shirts have been sold, raising more than $6,600.
COVID-19 brings out UTC heroes
These days, people in all kinds of uniforms are taking on hero status—not just those in military uniforms. First responders, health care providers and law enforcement are on the front lines in today’s battle with COVID-19. They have jobs that can’t be done remotely, and their work makes the rest of us safer, healthier and…
Phone Call Checkups: UTC graduate students reaching out to residents for COVID-19 data
To gather information for the Hamilton County Health Department, Mary Ferris works from home, checking on people who have come into contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19.
COVID-19: Repetition and Isolation
Two to 14 days. That is all the virus is supposed to live for, but the inability to stop our fast pace capitalist society from going keeps the COVID-19 going. Small businesses hurting, stock market crashing, unemployment rate increasing, people social-distancing, colleges closing. Not just the nation, but the world is having to learn new…