Dr. Linda Frost has been named dean of UTC’s new Honors College. Previously Frost worked in the Honors Program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. She answers a few questions about the new program.
Student studies alternative energy at prestigious research program
Brock scholar Tim Haley’s summer internship gave him valuable experience as both a science researcher and a full-time employee. Haley, a sophomore physics major from Springfield, Tennessee, was selected to participate in a prestigious summer research program with Tennessee Solar Conversion using Outreach, Research, and Education (TN-SCORE) at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
UTC student trades Miss Chattanooga crown for hard hat
UTC student Dacey Winkleman may be the reigning Miss Chattanooga, but when she went to her summer internship, she traded the glitzy dresses, shoes, and crown in for jeans, steel toed boots, and a hard hat.
Brock Scholars travel to London
For the first time in her life, Saba Munir traveled without her family and across the Atlantic in summer 2013 to visit London. She joined fellow Brock Scholars as they explored the fine arts and history of this major cultural center, the culmination of the Travel Seminar course.
Brock Scholars highlighted in new Honors College
As UTC’s student body continues to grow, more opportunities for honors-level study will be available with the establishment of an Honors College. To avoid confusion, the University Honors Program has reverted to its former name, the Brock Scholars Program.
Washington D.C. internship yields big returns
Robert Fisher had sixty minutes warning he would meet President Barack Obama.
Fisher is a UTC Brock Scholar and the incoming Student Government Association President. He spent the summer in Washington, D.C., as an intern for the Center for American Progress, following his acceptance into The Institute for Responsible Citizenship’s prestigious summer leadership program. Fisher and his student colleagues met with lawmakers and asked for a resolution to the student loan interest rate problem.