UTC occupational therapy doctoral students have been spending the spring semester on their capstone projects throughout the Chattanooga area.
UTC’s GEAR UP turning at-risk teenagers into first-generation college students
This spring, GEAR UP is celebrating its 25th year at UTC. The program connects students primarily from urban schools to college.
Happy Anniversary: MCC, WaGE celebrate 15 years of providing UTC students a ‘sense of belonging’
For 15 years, the Multicultural Center and the Center for Women and Gender Equity have provided safe spaces for students at UTC. The organizations will jointly celebrate their 15th anniversaries with a reception from 2-4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 29, at Lupton Hall.
Court is in session: UTC alumnus, faculty member named Tennessee Court Clerk of the Year
UTC alum Gary D. Behler, an adjunct faculty member in Criminal Justice, was recently named the 2023 State Court Clerk of the Year by the County Officials Association of Tennessee.
Shot at a goal: UTC soccer star wants to become seventh doctor in her family
UTC graduating senior Mackenzie Smith aims to become the seventh physician in her immediate family, but medical school will have to wait until after her soccer career ends. Smith has her eye on playing professional soccer overseas. Then, the two-time all-Southern Conference player and biochemistry major plans to join her five siblings and father and attend medical school.
Class act: UTC international professor packs his Japanese anime and manga class
When Dr. Takeo Suzuki agreed to teach a course on Japanese anime and manga culture this fall, he was supposed to have only 10 or 12 students. After the class filled up in the first hour of registration, the dean agreed to expand it—first to 15 and eventually to 35 students.
Exploring technology and innovation: Future jobs will grow in STEM
The Birmingham, Alabama-based Tennessee STEM Explorers serve children throughout the Southeast by collaborating with local television stations to present weekly 30-minute STEM-driven programming.
Military molded Abeer Mustafa into successful UTC associate vice chancellor for enrollment
On Nov. 10, Dr. Abeer Mustafa will be the keynote speaker at the UTC Veterans Day Chancellors Luncheon. After graduating from high school in Houston, Texas, in 1990, she enlisted in the U.S. Army, which she served four years and attained the rank of E-4.
Reality of a personal experience led UTC psychology professor to world of virtual reality
Dr. Max Teaford joined UTC this summer to open the school’s Multisensory-Multisystem (MS2) lab to conduct research using virtual reality technology to study body ownership and spatial orientation. He currently is recruiting students as lab research assistants to study body ownership through the use of illusions, where one is made to feel as if a foreign object—real or virtual—is part of their body.
Making the grade: Harvard graduate now playing linebacker for the Mocs
Mocs linebacker Kobe Joseph has aspirations of being a pro football player. And even if he doesn’t make it, there’s always the MBA he’s pursuing from UTC and the Harvard University bachelor of arts degree in human developmental and regenerative biology with a secondary major in economics.