UTC will host the fourth annual “Introduction to Asia Conference” on Thursday, February 16 in the University Center Auditorium. The conference includes presentations on the economies of China and India, Taoist mediation, and Tai Chi. The events are free and open to the public.
UTeach student selected to attend workshop in Ireland
Lisa Berry, a senior biology major and Noyce Scholar in the UTeaChattanooga program at UTC, has been chosen to attend a computer science workshop in Dublin, Ireland.
Professor recognized as ‘Educator of the Year’
UC Foundation Professor of Health and Human Performance Dr. Marisa Colston was honored by The Tennessee Athletic Trainers’ Society (TATS) with the Jerry Robertson Educator of the Year Award. The award was presented to her this month at the TATS Annual Awards Banquet at Baptist Hospital in Nashville.
Cress Gallery announces new exhibit
The Cress Gallery of Art is hosting “Okay Mountain” from Wednesday, February 8 to Tuesday, March 20. Blending humor with irony, Okay Mountain creates work that weaves an engaging yet dead serious commentary about our contemporary existence. In conjunction with this exhibition, Okay Mountain will visit the campus and the Chattanooga community as part of the…
Black History Month Calendar of Events
Date Name Time Location February 1 Kick off Celebration/Unity Quilt (students/alumni will have an opportunity to decorate a quilt panel piece for the Unity Quilt. The quilt will be displayed in the Multicultural Center) 11a.m.-4 p.m. Multicultural Center February 2 Soul Poetry Night Featuring J. Whaley 8 p.m. Multicultural Center February 13 Littleton H. Mason Singers “Outburst”…
Women’s studies presents spring speaker’s series
The Department of Women’s Studies is presenting their 2012 Spring Speaker’s Series: Inconvenient Women: Gender Inequality in the Justice System. These lectures are free and open to the public.
Art professor awarded national grant
Phillip Lewis, UC Foundation Assistant Professor of Art, has been awarded a Creative Capital Project Grant in Visual Arts. This prestigious national award will support his new project entitled SYNONYM. SYNONYM is a multi-disciplined project, which includes photographs, video, performance, installation, and the dissemination of information about experiences from inside the war on drugs and extremist treatment…
Hunter Lecture Series: Former US Poet Laureate to speak
Former US Poet Laureate, Dr. Robert Pinsky, will be the third speaker in the 2011-2012 George T. Hunter Lecture Series at UTC. During his three terms as US Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky founded the Favorite Poem Project, which aimed to identify and invigorate poetry’s place in American culture. Pinksy currently serves as the poetry editor…
Music Department presents “Treemonisha”
The 125th anniversary of UTC continues with a special musical presentation. The UTC Music Department in cooperation with the Chattanooga Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song will present two evening performances of Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha on January 27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee on January 29 at 3…
Wanted: one good candidate, Perspectives 2012
Wanted: one good candidate “Why both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are right about the 2012 election”: Matt Taibbi, contributing editor of Rolling Stone presents Perspectives 2012, The Raymond and Florence Witt Lecture Series.