No Minor Matter
Adrienne Roberson is PA voice of pro baseball team By David Driver “Now pitching for the Bowie Baysox, No. 6, Dylan Bundy,” exclaims Adrienne Roberson as the top minor league pitching prospect takes...
View ArticleTick Diseases
When a tick bite turns to an infection, many people think Lyme disease. But, depending on where you live, the disease may be something else entirely. That’s a finding from a groundbreaking study under...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Brain
A UT Health Science Center (UTHSC) professor is part of an international effort to understand the human brain and its diseases. The European Commission’s 10-year, $2.5 billion Human Brain Project will...
View ArticleWorking Women
The UT Martin WestStar Leadership Program hosted the annual Working Women’s Conference in February. Keynote speaker Kellye Cash-Sheppard, Miss Tennessee ’86 and Miss America ’87, talked about her...
View ArticleNew Chancellor
Dr. Steve Angle will officially become the 17th leader of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on July 1. Angle, currently senior vice president at Wright State University, was elected chancellor...
View ArticleToday Show Visits
When Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb decided to go back to college for the Today show, they chose UT Knoxville. Last fall, students used Twitter to make UT a finalist in the show’s challenge with...
View ArticleCountdown to 100: Tennessee Alumnus 1917-2017
In 1917, $2 a year got you membership in the alumni association and a magazine subscription. Advertisers in the first issue included Southern Pipe & Foundry Co., the Co-op book store and Holston...
View ArticleFishing Stories
Photo by Wade Payne Bill Bell (Knoxville ’72), far right, loves fishing, and when he heard UT Knoxville had a bass fishing team, he wanted to make sure the students had the best boat on the...
View ArticleFirst Trip to Cuba through Orange Lenses
Alumna Andrea Loughry describes her trip Once a forbidden fruit to American travelers, Cuba poured out its sweet beauty and its tart past for the first time to me and 26 other Tennessee Travelers. It...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor
Readers respond to the summer 2013 issue: I usually read the Tennessee Alumnus from “cover to cover” and usually enjoy reading about the many alumni and their activities. You hit an all-time low with...
View ArticleClassroom to Battlefield
An education interrupted by the Civil War By Fred Brown While the nation enters its third year of commemorating and reflecting upon the Civil War’s sesquicentennial, anyone interested in the University...
View ArticleLife after Lady Vols
Former college stars take talent to the WNBA By Elizabeth A. Davis Follow on Twitter:@Candace_Parker@Catchin24@strick40@karalawson20It’s late in the afternoon here in Knoxville, but in Ekaterinburg,...
View ArticlePilgrims of Flora and Fauna
By David Brill Each spring, for more than 60 years, Ed Clebsch, retired UT Knoxville professor of botany and ecology who also is an alumnus, has trod the pilgrim’s path, guiding amateur naturalists...
View ArticleFunny Lady
By Chandra Harris-McCray After 20 years, UT Knoxville alumna Paula Pell came back to her alma mater last spring as the keynote speaker of “Heart & Soul: UT’s Ties to Television, Stage and Cinema”...
View ArticleOur Emmett
Emmett Edwards, who served as the first African-American member of the UT Board of Trustees when he was a student at UT Martin, passed away in October 2012 at age 59. Roy Herron (Martin ’75) wrote a...
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