The Southeast Center for Education in the Arts hosted its third national “Arts & Education Forum: Arts @ the Core of 21st Century Learning” at the Chattanoogan. Forum participants included 42 presenters who represented 43 organizations from 15 states and Trinidad and Tobago. National organizations included the College Board, Crayola, and the Partnership for 21st…
Carl Henderson Selected as Beta Alpha Psi Accountant of the Year
Carl Henderson was selected as the 2010 Beta Alpha Psi Accountant of the Year by the Eta Kappa Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi at UTC.
Graduate student selected for Presidential Fellows Program
Graduate student Adrienne Teague has been selected to participate in the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Fellows program based in Washington DC, which encourages participants from colleges and universities around the country to learn about leadership and governance, to share research and scholarship, develop leadership qualities and be inspired to pursue…
Student wins 1st Place at the National Association for Teachers of Singing competition
Sonia Rippe placed first in the Upperclassmen Division of the National Association for Teachers of Singing (NATS) Musical Theater category in the mid-south regional competition. Rippe, a native of Memphis, Tennessee who studies voice with Dr. Rebecca St. Goar, performed four songs from musicals. Rippe performed four songs from musicals meeting different time period qualifications.…
Capital campaign update
“‘If we only had the money’ are the words often used to begin a conversation about improvements needed at the University,” said Brenda Lawson, co-chair of the UT Campaign for Tennessee. She provided a campaign update for a UTC audience last week. “Time to Achieve,” UTC’s fundraising component of the UT system’s Campaign for Tennessee,…
Chemistry faculty and students provide flood relief
Chemistry department faculty and summer undergraduate research students at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga collected clothes for flood relief in Nashville. Desiree Benefield, a graduate student at Vanderbilt and a 2009 graduate of UTC’s Chemistry Department, will take the supplies to a shelter in Nashville.
Engineering professor’s software onboard NASA shuttle
“EXPRESS Payload Simulator” software developed by UTC professor Dr. Jim Henry is onboard the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis that launched May 14. The software will be installed on Monday, May 24, for several days of demonstration. Henry was invited to Houston to observe the progress of that demonstration. Earth-bound researchers who communicate with equipment in…
Pearson named UTC Distinguised Alumnus
The University’s newest Distinguished Alumnus wanted to become a police officer when he was a boy. J. Michael Pearson achieved his dream and much more. In the Secret Service, he protected the Queen of England, Pope John Paul, and President George H. W. Bush and his work took him to 26 foreign countries. Today, there…
Take the Lead offers livable ideas for Chattanooga
Jon Coddington, project director at RiverCity Company and visiting professor of architecture and urban design at UTC, shared plans to revitalize W. Main Street in Chattanooga using public art at the “Take the Lead’ forum held at the University.
Southeast Center for Education in the Arts hosts national forum
UTC’s Southeast Center for Education in the Arts (SCEA) will host its third national Arts & Education Forum: Arts @ the Core of 21st Century Learning at The Chattanoogan Conference Center on May 14-15. “We live in an increasingly complex, globalized, media-saturated society. Education is being reinvented to meet the needs of our ever-changing 21st…