On the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote, a Tennessee mural project is giving an all-woman roster of artists a canvas to freely express themselves—and inspiring a new generation of girls.
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The N95 respirator is providing a critical defense for health care workers in the COVID-19 pandemic—and its core technology was developed by UT professor Peter Tsai, who has come out of retirement to improve his invention.
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From the beginning of the university’s planning process for returning students, faculty, and staff to campus this fall, creativity, compassion, and flexibility have been guiding principles.
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From the beginning, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s partnership with the University of Tennessee has fueled an era of American research innovation.
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Chancellor Donde Plowman and Student Government Association President Karmen Jones sat down together to share an honest conversation about the state of diversity and inclusion on campus, what the university could do better, and what it means when we say “Vol is a Verb.”
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Scholar and sociologist Enkeshi El-Amin (’19) creates a welcoming space for Black makers in Knoxville and builds bridges for the good of her adopted community.
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Students in the School of Advertising and Public Relations develop a marketing plan for alumnus’s new Vol-themed hotel.
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With her Met Opera National Council Auditions victory, soprano Alexandria Shiner (’16) hit a high note.
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Around 1,000 babies are born each year in the United States with sickle cell anemia. Former Vol football player Tim Townes is hoping to change that with a cure currently up for FDA approval.
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A stigma has always existed around conversations about mental health. Champion swimmer Maddy Banic (’19) hopes to lessen that stigma by sharing the story of her own struggles, and her comeback, with student–athletes around the country.