UTC Choral Music Department Presents Fall Concert The UTC Choral Music Department will be presenting their fall concert on Thursday night, November 29, at 7:30 pm in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center at UTC. The concert will feature performances by the Chattanooga Singers directed by Dr. Kevin Ford, the Men’s…
Video at Cress offers UTC interviews
“Free Associations” by the artists collaborative Eric and Heather ChanSchatz is a single channel video featuring interviews with UTC students, employees, administrators and educators. It will be shown until November 30 in the Cress Gallery of Art / Gallery II. ChanSchatz created this work from video interviews of selected UTC residents. They traveled the campus…
Symposium held on the 19th Century Press, The Civil War, and Free Expression
The Symposium on the 19th Century Press, The Civil War, and Free Expression ended Saturday with a tour of the Lookout Mountain Battlefield led by National Park Historian Jim Ogden. The symposium featured presentations of selected papers that deal with U.S. mass media of the 19th century, the Civil War in fiction and history, images…
Regional tuition credit now available
Students from selected counties in north Georgia and Alabama are again eligible for a regional tuition credit at UTC in fall 2008. The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees has approved the plan to allow eligible students from Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Murray, Walker, and Whitfield counties in Georgia and Jackson county in Alabama to pay…
UTC Challenger Learning Center dedicates three new classrooms
Congressman Zach Wamp addresses the audience Since its grand opening in 1995 when the UTC Challenger Learning Center became the first of its kind to be housed on a university campus, there were plans to open three classrooms to complete the original building design. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, Founding Chairman…
Engineering students create competitive punkin chunkin trebuchet
A team of six mechanical and one civil engineering students built an elaborate wood and steel trebuchet and took it to Bridgeville, Delaware, where they launched a ten pound pumpkin 581 feet. Team Artemis, including mechanical engineering students Trevor Owens, Larry Ardry, Nettie Halcomb, Michael Adams, Chris Thornton, Ed Yates and Stuart Rymer and one…
Black Hawks transport ROTC cadets
Black Hawk helicopters landed on Chamberlain Field to transport senior ROTC cadets to Catoosa Training Site in Georgia for extended lab training. “Given the limitations of available training time due to darkness and class schedules, air transportation gave us additional training time for the day,” said Major Ben Smith. “Secondarily, the use of aviation provides…
Rosser to speak at UTC about academic women scientists and their struggle to succeed
“The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and Their Struggle to Succeed” will be presented on Tuesday, November 13, at noon in the Signal Mountain Room of the UTC University Center by Dr. Sue V. Rosser, Dean of Ivan Allen College, the liberal arts college of Georgia Tech where she holds the Ivan Allen Dean’s…
Theatre students take Atlanta field trips, performing The Glass Menagerie
Two groups of students in Theatre and Speech recently took field trips to Atlanta to see several plays. They enjoyed Dark Play or Stories for Boys by Carlos Murillo at Actor’s Express; My Name is Rachel Corrie, a one-woman show about an American peace activist killed in the West Bank in 2003 and produced by…
Enjoy opera, percussion and saxophone student performances
UTC Opera Performance The UTC Opera will present “The Magic of Mozart” on Friday, November 16, at 8 p.m., Saturday, November 17, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, November 18, at 2 p.m. at the Roland Hayes Concert Hall in the UTC Fine Arts Center at Vine and Palmetto Streets. Under the artistic direction of Ronald…