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Arts & Culture

Architecture Students Awarded Inaugural Gensler Rising Black Designers Scholarships

Wednesday, October 27, 2021, By Julie Sharkey

Two School of Architecture students have received a prestigious national scholarship for young Black designers by Gensler, one of the world’s largest design and architecture firms. Krystol Austin G’22 (M.Arch.) and Coumba Kanté ’22 (B.Arch.) were named two of the…

Business & Economy

Falk College to Introduce New Online Certificate of Advanced Study in Sport Analytics

Wednesday, September 22, 2021, By News Staff

Falk College will introduce an online Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.) in sport analytics to its academic degree offerings in  the Spring 2022 semester. Sport analytics focuses on data science applications to sports teams and businesses. The new 12-credit program…

WKRN-TV (Tennessee)

Supply chain industry deals with challenge of labor shortages.

Friday, September 17, 2021, By Lily Datz

Patrick Penfield, professor of supply chain practice and director of Executive Education in the Whitman School, was interviewed on WKRN-TV (Tennessee) for the story “Supply chain industry deals with challenge of labor shortages.” Penfield, an expert on supply chain management,…

STEM

How 9/11 Impacted the Technology and Techniques of Forensic Science

Tuesday, September 7, 2021, By News Staff

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed so much of American life in the coming years, exposing major security vulnerabilities but also bolstering international coordination, crisis planning and mass disaster response. Strategies and methods developed at Ground Zero in…

Campus & Community

Important Move-In Information

Friday, August 20, 2021, By News Staff

Dear Students and Families: We look forward to welcoming you to campus next week! As you finalize your travel plans, we are reaching out with some important information related to move-in to help you plan accordingly. Outlined in this message…

Arts & Culture

A&S Professor Scott Manning Stevens Awarded a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship

Tuesday, August 10, 2021, By Dan Bernardi

In Native American cultures, it is customary to use vivid narratives to pass down traditions, life lessons and rituals. Future generations learn the ways of their ancestors through oral storytelling. While this has preserved customs among their communities, Scott Manning…

Health & Society

Feeding the Next Generation

Tuesday, August 10, 2021, By News Staff

Less than an hour’s helicopter flight northwest of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince is the town of Anse Rouge, where the coastal landscape is a patchwork of squares, white mounds and tropical vegetation. Salt farming is the subsistence livelihood that Haitians…

Campus & Community

Thirty-Four Doctoral Students Awarded Summer Dissertation Fellowships

Sunday, May 30, 2021, By Ellen de Graffenreid

The Graduate School has awarded Summer Dissertation Fellowships to 34 doctoral candidates to facilitate progress toward completion of their dissertation. Each $4,000 award provides funding to offset living or research-related expenses, allowing candidates to fully focus on completing their degrees….

STEM

Office of Research Seeks Proposals for Small Equipment Grant Program

Tuesday, May 25, 2021, By News Staff

The Office of Research is now accepting proposals for the 2021 Small Equipment Grant Program. The Small Equipment Grant Program is designed to strengthen research capacity and capability at the University. Up to $600,000 will be awarded through this mechanism….

STEM

Professor Develops Model to Shape the Future of Pasta and Sustainability

Friday, May 21, 2021, By Chris Barbera

Like pasta, the pursuit of global environmental sustainability takes many shapes. In a paper titled “Morphing Pasta and Beyond,” published as the cover story in the May 2021 issues of Science Advances, researchers found a way to redesign noodles as…