Notes in Brief...
Nearly 900 people gathered at a gala on September 23 to celebrate fifty years of African American achievement at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. It was part of UT's year-long celebration commemorating the first black undergraduates to enroll at UT.
UT Knoxville and Y-12 Nuclear Security Complex have signed an agreement, enhancing our partnership. It allows for joint appointments of key researchers, engineers, executives, and staff.
Five of our senior faculty members have been named Chancellor's Professors, UT Knoxville's highest permanent academic honor. Please join me in congratulating Jeffrey Becker, Suzanne Lenhart, Lawrence Townsend, Beauvais Lyons, and Bill Fox.
This past summer, seventy-five wait-listed UT freshmen accepted our invitation to be part of the inaugural Bridge Program, a dual-enrollment initiative between UT Knoxville and Pellissippi State Community College. They attended second summer session at UT and are now taking classes at Pellissippi State. Upon satisfactory completion of the program, these students will transfer to UT as sophomores. The Bridge Program is just one way UT is complying with the Complete College Tennessee Act of 2010, a law that seeks to enhance cooperation between colleges and universities in the Tennessee Board of Regents and UT system.
 Here's a list of faculty, staff, and students who have made headlines for their accomplishments in recent months.
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 Pat Summitt is known for her courage, integrity, and commitment to the Lady Vols and UT. In August, announcing her diagnosis with early onset dementia, she stayed true to her game. She showed amazing courage as she spoke openly to her student-athletes, her coaches, her UT colleagues, and her fans.
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 Dave Hart started work last month as our new vice chancellor and director of athletics, and he has hit the ground running. He is a seasoned administrator with twenty years of experience as athletic director at two major institutions, East Carolina University and Florida State University. He knows how to manage and lead athletic programs, coaches, and staff. He has a strong commitment to academics.
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 With Vol Vision/Top 25 plan now in place, we have more than sixty action plans to close the gaps between UT Knoxville and our aspirational list of Top 25 public research universities. Today, we look at two of those efforts: one to streamline our graduate school admissions process and another to make sure undergraduates understand the value of doing research and are aware of the growing number of research opportunities at UT.
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As we work toward becoming a Top 25 public research university, we're pleased that the quality of our incoming students is already there. Approximately 4,200 freshmen began classes in August and, by average ACT scores, they rank among the top 8 percent of students statewide. Serving such high-ability students fuels our determination to elevate our programs and improve our facilities to provide a world-class education for our students.
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This summer, we were excited to announce that UT Knoxville had received a five-year $18 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US Department of Energy to be at the forefront of research, education, and technology for sustainable energy systems. This is the first time UT Knoxville has been chosen to lead an NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) and the first time an ERC will focus on power transmission systems. An NSF ERC is historically the most prestigious award given to a university and industry team.
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 Stephen Wood is studying wind farm simulations; Melissa Allen, climate science. In a simple conversation, these two scholars—both part of CIRE's energy science and engineering doctoral fellowship program—uncovered an opportunity for collaboration that would be beneficial not only to their studies, but potentially the world. Such collaborations are everywhere at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education (CIRE), which opened this fall.
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