By Desiree Garza, University Relations Intern Paul McDonald, son of UTC instructor Susan McDonald, won a golden ticket to Hollywood—he’ll be competing in American Idol after participating in the Nashville auditions January 27.
SCEA to give collaborative arts education conference
The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA) will host its fourth national Arts and Education Forum on May 11-13. The forum, titled “Aesthetic Learningscapes – Exploring Elegant Environments,” will bring together educators, artists, and professionals from diverse disciplines to explore the changing environments in which students learn.
Golden Key to host graduate school success series
The UTC chapter of the Golden Key International Honors Society will host the Graduate School Success Series, which will include presentations by a national graduate education expert, UTC faculty, and staff. The series is open to UTC students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Attendance is free. To sign up for the series: use a Google e-mail…
Faculty, staff receive grants
Sandy Cole, Director of the Center for Community Career Education received $3000 from Hamilton County DoE, and Dr. John McCormack, Station Manager of WUTC, attracted $137,999 from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Interior Design students, faculty study southern architecture
The Department of Interior Design hosted the annual fall study tour focused on historical homes and preservation in Mississippi and Louisiana. Participants, including UTC students and faculty, toured architecture in Natchez, Mississippi, the Louisiana River Road and New Orleans, Louisiana on November 4-8 of last year.
Music Department presents U.S. Army Field Band
The UTC Music Department is proud to present the United States Army Field Band the Woodwind Ambassadors. The performance will be on Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the UTC Fine Arts Center Roland Hayes Concert Hall. The concert is presented free of charge and is open to the public.
Physical Therapy program hosts annual forum
Around 250 UTC and Chattanooga State students, alumni, physical therapists, and physical therapist assistants from Tennessee and North Georgia attended the 11th Annual Physical Therapy Forum on January 20.
Dr. Gregory Grant to receive national chemistry award
Dr. Gregory J. Grant, Irvine W. Grote Professor of Chemistry, will be honored with the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution on Tuesday, March 29, in Anaheim, California, where the 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting will be held. Grant’s award is the pinnacle recognition for a chemist whose focus…
Religion lectures planned for campus
The Martin Distinguished Professorship in Religious Studies Lecture Series is presenting a series of talks titled “Holy Lands in Classical Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” Each of the speakers will examine one of the three western religious traditions concerning the development of the notion of a holy land or lands. All the lectures in the series begin…
June Matthews recognized by Erlanger
When Baroness Erlanger Hospital acquired one of the first heart-lung machines designed to keep patients alive during open-heart surgery in 1960, it was not long before it was used to successfully correct a defective heart valve in a male teen born with a congenital heart condition. It was the region’s first open-heart surgery.