This Old House

Eugenia Williams estate

After looking for a way to restore the historic Eugenia Williams mansion, the University of Tennessee decides its best option is to sell it.

UT Picks Plowman

Donde Plowman

The next chancellor of UT Knoxville has experience navigating public university complexities, here and elsewhere.

Game of Chancellors

Donde Plowman

Four candidates to lead the University of Tennessee’s flagship campus presented different styles in forums this week, but some shared themes.

Final Four

Knoxville chancellor finalists

UT announces a quartet of candidates from different backgrounds for chancellor of the flagship Knoxville campus.

An Imperfect Account

Brian Griffin

Eleven years after the murders at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, Knoxville writer Brian Griffin sorts through the trauma.

Wildflower Witness

Wildflowers

A University of Tennessee scientist uses Henry David Thoreau’s 19th century observations to chart the effects of climate change.

Big Ears’ Big Tent

Big Ears 2018

The festival’s eclectic energy is carrying over to its home city, in many different ways. We trace some of them.

Trust and Transparency

Image courtesy of the Knight Commission

A national report (with a Tennessee co-chair) charts a decline in civic engagement. It also offers some solutions.

Vol Access

Randy Boyd with UT chancellors at State of the University 3-14-19

Boyd announces UT Promise, a privately endowed scholarship to make the state university free for lower-income students.

Appalachian Chorus

'Appalachian Reckoning'

In response to J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ regional writers stake a claim to political and cultural diversity in the Southern mountains.