March 2019

For the second time in recent months, UT’s Center for Sport, Peace, and Society has been honored with an international award for its work using sport to inspire positive social change around…

Mary Jane Bell Sharp, a graduate of the Home Economics program in 1948, has passed away. The Home Economics program is now known as the Department of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism…

Bilingual children do not have more advantages than monolingual children when it comes to executive function, which includes remembering instructions, controlling responses, and shifting swiftly between tasks, according to a…

James Williams, assistant professor of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management, has been chosen by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as one of its top 15 emerging scholars for 2019. Scholars were…

The National Rural Education Association (NREA) has recognized the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Center for Educational Leadership with the 2018 NREA Exemplary Practices Award for its Administrators Planning Innovation for Rural Education (AsPIRE) rural…

UT’s Early Learning Center, an early childhood education facility and child development laboratory affiliated with the Department of Child and Family Studies in UT’s College of Education, Health, and Human…

For the second year in a row, UT was rated top among Tennessee institutions for preparing teachers to work in the state, according to the 2018 Teacher Preparation Report Card. UT…

By Sarah Plemmons During the summers of 2016 and 2017, a UT professor traveled to the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia to observe families from the small community of Doko. Department…

by Sarah Plemmons Stefanie Benjamin, assistant professor in the Department of Retail, Hospitality, and Tourism Management,  first encountered improv while studying for her PhD of Educational Foundations and Inquiry at…