Look for alumnus Dustin Cawood’s name in the credits of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association choice for Best Picture of the Year, WALL-E. Cawood, a former communication major at UTC, works at Skywalker sound in pre-production or post-production of movies in sound design and sound editing. In the movie WALL·E, the story of a…
Education major, English minor Madonna Kemp awarded scholarship
Madonna Kemp with Sandra Day O’Connor, former United States Supreme Court JusticeMadonna Fajardo Kemp gets excited about teaching history. She believes students in early adolescence, those in fifth, sixth and seventh grade, are impressionable and the perfect age to grasp this important subject. “I hope to infect my students with a passion for civic efficacy,”…
Dr. John Friedl to address December graduates
Dr. John Friedl, who holds a joint UTC appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Accounting, will address 550 graduates on Sunday, December 14, at 2 p.m., in McKenzie Arena. Friedl teaches Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Mass Communication Law, and Business Law. He earned a B.A. (with honors), M.A. and Ph.D.…
Interior Design student awarded national scholarship
UTC Interior Design student, Rachael Ferrill has received the Senior Student Scholarship 2008 Award from the Angelo Donghia Foundation, Inc., established by the late Angelo Donghia, an internationally recognized interior designer and source of inspiration to the design world. Ferrill’s scholarship of $12,411 was awarded on the basis of a juried competition of portfolio submissions.…
UT Audit Committee meets Dec. 2; Effectiveness and Efficiency Committee meets Dec. 3
Two UT Board of Trustees committees will meet in early December. Read more…
Final exam cram time
Students can get some extra help preparing for final exams by attending the Finals Study Marathon, which will provide a quiet study area, refreshments and door prizes at the Lupton Library and the University Center, Student Technology Center.
UTC partners with VW
The spectacular announcement that Volkswagen will build its North American assembly plant in Chattanooga continues to elicit palpable excitement in the Chattanooga community. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was there at the beginning, involved in the recruitment effort to bring the automaker here, said Chancellor Roger Brown. “UTC is proud to have been involved…
UTC represented at Volkswagen expo
UTC was among the partners represented at the Volkswagen career and supplier expo, where the line of applicants waiting to be considered spilled into the hallway and wrapped around the Chattanooga Convention Center Thursday, November 20.
Ipshita Thomas awarded DOT fellowship
Ipshita Thomas is one of three students to receive the inaugural U.S. Department of Transportation’s Regional Outstanding Student Fellowship (ROSF) award, authorized by Congress under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equality Act. This new educational initiative, worth $12,000 annually, was open to regional schools in the Southeast which do not house The Southeastern Transportation…
Historian and author Doris Kearns Goodwin to launch Hunter Lecture Series
The Benwood Foundation, in partnership with The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, and CreateHere, has announced that the 2009 George T. Hunter Lecture Series will kick off on January 13th with world-renowned historian and author, Doris Kearns Goodwin. Goodwin, an expert on presidential politics, is the author of several…