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With more than 520,000 acres in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, UT professors and students have a one-of-a-kind classroom right in their own backyard.

Students in 1916 studied plant taxonomy in the Great Smoky Mountains.

School of Music graduate student Kevork Esmeryan spent part of January traveling to area schools playing violins that were once played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust.

Lydia Criss Mays (’01, ’02) empowers people to “see beautiful” in themselves and “create more beautiful” in the world.

In the aftermath of a mass shooting in the Capital Gazette newsroom, editor Rick Hutzell (’83) and his coworkers knew one thing for certain: they would be putting out a paper the next day no matter what.

The Pride of the Southland band celebrates 150 years in 2019.

Phase II of the Student Union opened to the university community in January 2019 after more than nine years of work.

Senior Grant Rigney has joined an elite class since being named UT’s eighth Rhodes Scholar.

Young alumna Ashlee Latimer (’16) paid her dues in the Knoxville theatre world as an actress and director and ended up winning a Tony Award for her work offstage as a producer.

Numbering more than 5,200, this fall’s freshman class is the largest in recent history and is teeming with impressive students who all chose UT for different reasons. Get to know 12 of our new Vols—from writers, artists, and musicians to engineers, athletes, and activists—and find out more about the Class of 2022.