The end of April brings additional recognition and awards for UT faculty, staff, and students: An associate dean for faculty affairs and engagement in the Tickle College of Engineering earns Outstanding Campus Representative award; Geography professor receives AAG Lifetime Achievement Award; Electrical engineering professor wins IEEE Distinguished Educator Award; Geography student receives AAG research grant; Mechanical, aerospace, and biomedical engineering student selected for a VFF scholarship; Industrial and systems engineering student wins IISE Mid-Atlantic Technical Regional Competition; Transportation engineering graduate students win Best Paper Awards at ITE. Continue reading →

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The following faculty were featured on The Conversation in February 2021:

• • Derek Alderman, Department of Geography
    How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
  • Jennifer M. First, College of Social Work
    How the media may be making the COVID-19 mental health epidemic worse
  • DeWayne Shoemaker, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
    Tiny cacao flowers and fickle midges are part of a pollination puzzle that limits chocolate production
  • Alexander Carter, School of Advertising and Public Relations
    Drake and Jake, Mountain Dew’s millions and the Marvel Universe – which ads won the Super Bowl, and which fell flat.

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The middle of October brings; A team from CURENT wins a R&D 100 Award; a TCE researcher is named an Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems Materials Synthesis Investigator; a TCE professor earns the 2020 Peter G. Hoadley Award for Outstanding Engineering Educator and the 2020 Outstanding Engineering Educator Award; a Graduate Research Assistant receives the ASPE Student Scholarship; a professor in the Department of Geography and an associate professor in the Department of Theory and Practice in Teacher Education receive a grant from NEH; an undergraduate student in the Department of Plant Sciences earns the Mendenhall Award from GCSAA. Continue reading →