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Ecklund to Lead UT's New Global Supply Chain Management Executive MBA Program

David Ecklund has joined UT Knoxville as director of the Global Supply Chain Management Executive MBA program in the College of Business Administration. He also will be a lecturer in logistics for undergraduate, graduate, executive-level degree and non-degree programs.
August 21, 2008

Patterson to Lead UT's New National Defense Business Institute

After a long and distinguished career in the aerospace/defense industry, Dave Patterson joins the University of Tennessee Center for Executive Education as executive director of its newly formed National Defense Business Institute.
August 20, 2008

Grant to Fund Youth Mental Health Programs Research

The Children's Mental Health Services Research Center in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has received a $1,483,573 grant from the W.T. Grant Foundation to fund research on mental health programs which serve at-risk youth. The UT center will collaborate with the Helen Ross McNabb Center in Knoxville to conduct the three-year study.
August 20, 2008

UT Plans to Continue Audiology and Speech Pathology Program in Knoxville

Significant progress has been made toward a solution that will allow the UT Knoxville audiology and speech pathology program to continue operations through UT and remain in Knoxville, university officials announced today.
August 19, 2008

Acclaimed Journalist John Wilford Receives UT Alumni Award

John Noble Wilford, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and noted science writer for The New York Times, has received the 2008 Donald G. Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award. It is the highest honor an alumnus can receive from the College of Communication and Information.
August 19, 2008

UT Culinary Institute Graduates Inaugural Class on Aug. 18

A caterer, college student, high school teacher, lawyer and physical therapist are among the graduates of the inaugural class of the Culinary Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A graduation ceremony for the 16 members of the first class will be held at 6 p.m. Monday, Aug. 18, at the UT Visitors Center. The graduates will don their white chef hats and white coats for the ceremony.
August 15, 2008

UT Enhances Safety Efforts for Fall Semester

Students returning to classes next week at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will see safety enhancements around campus. The university has enhanced emergency communications, training and campus facilities and grounds.
August 15, 2008

UT's Incoming Freshmen Set New Academic Record; Bolstered Scholarship Programs Increase Access

For the fifth year in a row, incoming freshmen at UT Knoxville have set an academic record. Students will move in on Saturday; classes begin on Aug. 20. The class of 2012 -- expected to be about 4,200 strong -- arrives on campus with an average core GPA of 3.76 and a 26.6 average ACT score. Both scores are the highest ever for an entering class.
August 14, 2008

Williams Awarded Inaugural Stokely Foundation Leadership Chair

Jan Williams, dean of the College of Business Administration, has been awarded the inaugural Stokely Foundation Leadership Chair. This is the first endowed dean's chair on campus. The chair was endowed through the William B. Stokely Jr. Foundation, which has built an extensive history of support for the college and UT.
August 13, 2008

Take Five for Education: UT Offers Tips for Children Who Resist Going to School

Now that school has started for many students across the country, some parents may find their child doesn't like school or even refuses to go. Sherry Mee Bell, an associate professor of special education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, offers five strategies for parents to help get their child back on track.
August 13, 2008

Green Named New Director of School for Tennessee Governor's Academy

Craig Green has been named the new director of school for the UT Knoxville-administered Tennessee Governor's Academy for Mathematics and Science, which begins its second year of operation this week.
August 12, 2008

Tallent to Head Municipal Technical Advisory Service

Mike Tallent has been named executive director of UT's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. He begins on Aug. 18.
August 12, 2008