Students

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.

Volunteers bear the torch that lights the way for others. This passion to lead and serve is evident in the ways Vols roll up their sleeves and work to make our Appalachian home the best it can be.

UT students find connection in their work with the Tennessee RiverLine initiative

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.”