The UT Knoxville provides students one of the best values in public education according to The Princeton Review, which ranks American colleges based on undergraduate academics, affordability and financial aid for its annual "Best Value Colleges" list. The list features 50 public and 50 private colleges and universities. UT was the only university in Tennessee to make the public colleges list.
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A program on Japanese internment during World War II will be held at UT Knoxville on Jan. 15 and 16. The program will focus on the history and constitutional issues of the Hirabayashi v. U.S. Supreme Court case.
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<IMG SRC=http://my.tennessee.edu/pls/portal/news_images.show?p_release_id=4880&p_type=T ALIGN=LEFT>The James A. Haslam II Business Building on the campus of UT Knoxville is now open for business. A grand opening celebration was held on Tuesday, Jan. 6, and classes began today. As part of the grand opening festivities, College of Business Administration Dean Jan Williams hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the atrium of the new building.
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The College of Architecture and Design at UT Knoxville will host a special lecture series this semester as part of a new course on health care design. The series, Designing Environments for Health, will explore the importance of architecture in the construction of health-related facilities.
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Two professors in the College of Architecture and Design at UT Knoxville have been honored with prestigious awards. The awards were presented by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) in recognition of contributions to the advancement of architectural education.
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<IMG SRC=http://my.tennessee.edu/pls/portal/news_images.show?p_release_id=4872&p_type=T ALIGN=LEFT>A research article by Joe Williams, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UT Knoxville, has been named one of the Top 100 Science Stories of 2008 by Discover magazine. Williams' article, which helped explain the amazing diversity in flowering plants, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in July.
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