December 30, 2019
New leaders, a campus merger, a Sex Week détente and other changes during a transitional year at the Knoxville flagship.
December 19, 2019
The new chancellor of the University of Tennessee’s Knoxville campus has had a busy first semester. We sat down to talk about it.
December 13, 2019
Travis Bryan is graduating from the University of Tennessee today. But his biggest challenges have come outside the classroom.
December 6, 2019
A UT researcher’s work shows that difficult family relationships are a predictor of poor health.
November 22, 2019
Should UT make its interim president permanent? Our latest survey of local community leaders shows strong support.
November 15, 2019
Sex Week’s organizers say the event will go forward even as a new campus system for student events aims to isolate it.
November 11, 2019
A plan to move the UT system administration off the Knoxville campus gets the nod — and maybe a permanent president to go with it.
October 30, 2019
UT's full-time lecturers teach twice as many classes as tenured faculty, for less money and little job security. They are trying to change that.
October 23, 2019
The University of Tennessee proposes to sell the historic Eugenia Williams house and property to the nonprofit Aslan Foundation.
October 8, 2019
University of Tennessee research spending rose to $435.2 million statewide last year, but the flagship Knoxville campus remains far from its top 25 goal.
October 4, 2019
The UT Board of Trustees revisits an old question: how to measure faculty work and effectiveness. It turns out it’s not easy.
September 6, 2019
Not corn in a jar, but wheat in a can is coming to Rocky Top at this Saturday’s UT football game.
July 26, 2019
A UT researcher finds that many nurses say they are unprepared for long-term disasters, and nursing colleges aren’t emphasizing it.
July 10, 2019
Newly arrived UT Knoxville Chancellor Donde Plowman finds a warm welcome and a long to-do list.
July 9, 2019
UT researchers find a strong correlation between Russian disinformation and movement in the 2016 presidential polls.
June 24, 2019
Merging campuses and creating a new Oak Ridge Institute, the UT Board of Trustees ratifies big moves by Interim President Randy Boyd.
June 21, 2019
17 months in, UT Athletic Director Phillip Fulmer says the Vols' sports programs are working their way back to the top.
June 5, 2019
A UT professor’s open records lawsuit against the Knox County Sheriff’s Office raises questions about access to public officials’ emails.
June 3, 2019
UT Knoxville students sift through evidence of ancient civilizations on the banks of the Tennessee River.
May 20, 2019
UT’s proposed budget keeps tuition increases low. But a decade of hikes has still left it one of the priciest state schools in the Southeast.
May 1, 2019
After looking for a way to restore the historic Eugenia Williams mansion, the University of Tennessee decides its best option is to sell it.
April 29, 2019
The next chancellor of UT Knoxville has experience navigating public university complexities, here and elsewhere.
April 19, 2019
Four candidates to lead the University of Tennessee’s flagship campus presented different styles in forums this week, but some shared themes.
April 11, 2019
UT announces a quartet of candidates from different backgrounds for chancellor of the flagship Knoxville campus.
March 29, 2019
Eleven years after the murders at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville writer Brian Griffin sorts through the trauma.
March 26, 2019
A University of Tennessee scientist uses Henry David Thoreau’s 19th century observations to chart the effects of climate change.
March 21, 2019
The festival's eclectic energy is carrying over to its home city, in many different ways. We trace some of them.
March 18, 2019
A national report (with a Tennessee co-chair) charts a decline in civic engagement. It also offers some solutions.
March 15, 2019
Boyd announces UT Promise, a privately endowed scholarship to make the state university free for lower-income students.
March 11, 2019
In response to J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ regional writers stake a claim to political and cultural diversity in the Southern mountains.
March 4, 2019
The UT Board of Trustees approves a plan to change how student activity fees are distributed, potentially shutting down funding to Sex Week.
February 28, 2019
After a career building public-private connections, Tom Rogers prepares to take the reins at UT’s research park.
February 27, 2019
With extreme weather events on the rise, a UT professor looks at the social equity of disaster and disruption.
February 22, 2019
Replying to a state report, the University of Tennessee students who organize Sex Week reply say they deserve more respect.
February 21, 2019
In response to a comptroller’s report, the University of Tennessee abolishes a committee that has directed money to the controversial Sex Week.
February 13, 2019
A proposed change in state law would allow alcohol sales at concerts and other non-athletic events in UT Knoxville’s arenas.
February 6, 2019
In its 126th year, Johnson University seeks to maintain its evangelical mission while widening its scope and impact.
February 4, 2019
A University of Tennessee study is the first to quantify the workforce impact of the prescription drug epidemic.
January 14, 2019
Tyvi Small, UT Knoxville’s new vice chancellor for diversity and engagement wants to help students feel welcome, whoever they are.
January 8, 2019
10 years in the making, the University of Tennessee’s new Student Union building is big, bright and very orange.
January 3, 2019
Both Knox County Schools and the University of Tennessee will make major decisions about the future in 2019.