It was a win-win situation born from the most unpredictable circumstances for a dozen University of Tennessee, Knoxville, teacher education students and Centro Hispano, a local nonprofit serving Latino youth…
Research and Discovery
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David Bassett, professor in Kinesiology, Recreation, & Sport Studies, conducted a study with I-Min Lee, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues to debunk the age-old myth that walking…
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UT Researchers Study the Impact of Obesity and Weight-Gain in Pregnant Women and the Child’s Risk of Obesity
by rebekahlongSamantha Ehrlich, from the Department of Public Health, and colleagues have an article published in the newest volume of The Lancet: Diabetes & Endocrinology Journal, that examines whether a lifestyle intervention can help…
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Written by Jennifer Jabson Tree, MPH, PhD We all experience stress—good stress (e.g., a promotion at work) and bad stress (e.g., family crisis). You may be experiencing one or both…
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Research from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences is getting widespread attention. Take a look at some of our faculty’s latest work and where it has turned up…
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College students in southern Appalachia are affected by food insecurity at a higher rate than the national average, which can translate into poor academic performance and unhealthy spending habits and…
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Written by Addie Morton UT and Pellissippi State Community College have come together to help bring STEM teachers to classrooms in Appalachia. VolsTeach for Appalachia aims to grow and diversify…
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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…
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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…
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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…