Students

It’s been 120 years since a newspaper reporter from Atlanta gave UT athletes a nickname with deep roots in Tennessee history that has become a state of mind for the entire UT community.

Knoxville and the region are a bass angler’s paradise, and UT’s bass fishing team is attracting students from around the country and reeling in championships.

Aerospace engineering graduate Camille Calibeo (’19) is using her burgeoning social media brand, the Galactic Gal, to educate others about space and inspire young girls and women around the world to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Ready for Vol ice cream? A multidisciplinary effort will come to sweet fruition with the opening of an old-fashioned ice cream parlor run by Vols.

UT’s Center for Sport, Peace, and Society highlights the global importance of women’s sports with a new book, website, and podcasts.

At UT, Ann Marie Pace (’11) took the first steps to discovering her voice and her identity. She’s focusing that experience into writing and directing films to help young people feel seen and heard.

Therapeutic recreation students step up to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom at a camp for kids with disabilities.

A new program is supporting Black and Latino men to help them succeed at UT and beyond.

A student idea pitched during a landscape architecture class sparked a movement to develop the country’s next great regional trail system along the Tennessee River. Vols are stepping forward together with community partners to make the 652-mile trail a reality.

She’s been nominated for an Oscar and won an Emmy for her work telling the hard stories of her Appalachian home. Now, filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon is planting roots at UT to help young storytellers find their own voices.