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.
Student art presented at the Cress Gallery
The Cress Gallery of Art is hosting The UTC Department of Art 2012 Juried Student Exhibition, an annual tradition of the Cress Gallery and the UTC Department of Art. The exhibition runs until January 29. Gallery hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday and…
Music professor premieres new work in South Korea
UTC music professor Jooyong Ahn will go to great lengths to honor a late friend. Ahn went all the way to South Korea to premiere a new piece composed in remembrance of Vakhtang Jordania, a former conductor of Chattanooga Symphony.
Professors study effects of helicopter parenting
As college students leave fall semester in the rear view mirror, spring semester sparkles with the excitement of new classes and experiences. But students whose parents have a difficult time cutting ties may face an unexpected burden.
University to host clarinet festival
UTC’s Department of Music will present the first River City Clarinet Winter Festival, co-hosted by the Chattanooga Clarinet Choir on Saturday, January 21 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the UTC Fine Arts Center.
Athletics department releases updated Mocs license plate
It’s a new year! Out with old and in with the new as the UTC Athletics Department introduces an updated license plate for Tennessee residents.