Award-winning author, naturalist, and activist Janisse Ray will give a talk on the UTC campus about heirloom seeds, agrodiversity and the future of food. The event is scheduled for Thursday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m. in the Raccoon Mountain Room of the UTC University Center.
Dr. David Ross sought as expert in eyewitness testimony
Psychology professor and graduate students assist in overturning conviction in Missouri Anthony Williams was 14 years old when he attended a middle school dance in St. Louis City, Missouri, where another middle school student was later shot and killed. First a fight broke out during the dance, and then after the dance, in the dark…
TEDxUTChattanooga invites speaker nominations
“Now what?” is the topic of the first TEDxUTChattanooga meeting on Saturday, October 25, 2014, to be held on the UTC campus. The entire campus and community can become involved in this independently organized and officially licensed event based on TED, Technology, Entertainment, Design conferences. Nominate a speaker or nominate yourself to speak, attend the…
Online portal created for First Year Reading Experience
The Postmortal, this year’s First Year Reading Experience (FYRE) selection, raises questions about the ethics and the consequences of a cure for aging. UTC’s FYRE committee created an online portal for students and the campus community.
Brock Scholars present at undergraduate research conferences
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.