Talk about creating excitement in a child’s education—imagine an elementary or middle school student who gets to examine moon rocks in their classroom! With a grant from the National Space Grant Foundation, Dr. Deborah McAllister conducted a weeklong workshop for pre-service elementary and middle school teachers that featured ways to use multimedia materials provided in…
Chattanooga partnership provides innovative power technology to Tennessee Valley
Officials and representatives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, recently inaugurated the City’s first Bloom Box, a 100kW energy server poised to become an important alternative energy source for the nation’s power grid. The energy server uses solid oxide fuel cell technology developed by California’s Bloom Energy. Researchers from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s SimCenter: National Center…
Retired professors honored for years of service
The UTC Faculty Senate and the entire campus community honors retiring faculty members for their outstanding service to the University.
UTC team selected to attend National Summer Engaging Departments Institute
The Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) selected a team from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to attend the Engaging Departments Institute at the University of Pennsylvania from July 7-11, 2010. The UTC team will include: Dr. Barbara Norwood (Nursing and incoming chair of the General Education Committee), Dr. Victoria Steinberg (Foreign Languages),…
Swansbrough enjoying Fulbright experience
Dr. Robert Swansbrough is enjoying his busy role as a Fulbright Scholar, teaching and traveling in China and presenting Fulbright guest lectures. Fulbright supports this travel and the inviting host university provides housing and often banquets. At each visit, Fulbright requests that Swansbrough give two lectures. Swansbrough, Associate Dean of The College of Arts and…
Documenting UTC’s urban forest
Visitors to UTC are often surprised to see our lush green campus right in the middle of the downtown concrete jungle. To preserve the campus plant life, an effort has made to catalog the diverse collection of trees and shrubs for scientific, educational, and ornamental purposes, and application is being made to have the campus…
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…
Students design fitness program for children at Boys & Girls Club
Students at the Highland Park Boys & Girls Club are discovering it is “Fun to be Fit.” As part of their work with Leadership Chattanooga, Dr. Dee Dee Anderson, associate vice chancellor of student development, and Dr. Mike Owens, assistant dean of graduate programs in the College of Business, developed the Fun to be Fit…
Professor’s research explores sex trafficking
Sex trafficking is not just a problem in developing countries according to Dr. Obi Ebbe, professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Geography, who has published numerous articles on global trafficking and also a consultant of the United Nations International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council in Transnational Crime, Terrorism, Corruption, and Human Trafficking. Many women and…