Davan Maharaj, UTC graduate and editor of the Los Angeles Times, will be the special guest at an open house for the University’s newly renovated TV Studio on Thursday, October 17.
Educations majors’ imaginations lift off with NASA demonstration
Dr. Susan Currie marveled at the perfect conditions on Challenger Field. It was a beautiful, sunny day in late September with no wind, a great day for a special project. As the Education Specialist from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center explained how to assemble and launch small rockets to a group of UTC education majors, senior Rebecca Gifford was thinking about all the ways a child could learn from this project.
UTC students take part in urban development celebration
Eight groups of UTC engineering students recently participated in Park(ing) Day, a nationwide event geared towards raising awareness about urban development and civic duty by converting metered parking spaces into usable public space.
UTC hosts Chattanooga’s largest blood drive
For the sixth consecutive year, UTC hosted Bloodanooga, Chattanooga’s largest blood drive. Organized by Blood Assurance, the area’s only blood bank, which serves and provides for nearly 50 medical facilities across Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Alabama, and North Carolina, this semester’s Bloodanooga was held in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Assistant U.S. Attorney to present “The Tarnished Badge”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen Parker, Civil Rights Division, New Orleans, Louisiana, will present The Tarnished Badge on Thursday, October 17, 5:30 p.m. at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Fine Arts Center in the Roland Hayes Auditorium, located at the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets. This event is free and open to the public.
Homecoming ends with a ‘Made in Chattanooga’ victory
A victory was “made in Chattanooga” for Homecoming when the Mocs beat Furman 31 to 9 at Finley Stadium. For notes on the game, visit the UTC Athletics website here. In addition to football, Homecoming 2013 had plenty of fun events for students, alumni, and the community.
Nobel Laureate addresses “The Logic of Entitlement Reform”
In his lecture “The Logic of Entitlement Reform,” Nobel Laureate Dr. Robert E. Lucas, Jr. said he is not in favor of abolishing the welfare system, but he suggested our country would be better served if welfare was not available to everyone, only the neediest 20 percent in the U.S.
Student studies alternative energy at prestigious research program
Brock scholar Tim Haley’s summer internship gave him valuable experience as both a science researcher and a full-time employee. Haley, a sophomore physics major from Springfield, Tennessee, was selected to participate in a prestigious summer research program with Tennessee Solar Conversion using Outreach, Research, and Education (TN-SCORE) at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Environmental journalists to convene in Chattanooga
Hundreds of journalists, government officials, environmental leaders, exhibitors and others from around the globe will be in Chattanooga October 2 – 6, 2013, to attend the 23rd Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists. This will be the second Chattanooga visit for SEJ, hosted by The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the Chattanooga…
ABET-ETAC accreditation awarded to the undergrad technology program
It’s official—when the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET-ETAC) accredited the BS Engineering Technology Management (ETM) program earlier this month, this achievement was especially good news—now all the undergraduate programs in the College of Engineering and Computer Science are accredited by ABET-ETAC.