Thanks to an innovative application of distance learning developed at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 30 college-bound science students in Fentress County, along with their classroom teachers, were able to seize upon a jewel of a learning experience at a time when they really wanted it.

The faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences set a high-water mark among colleges and universities in the Southeast in 2008 with the naming of 10 new Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

At UT Knoxville, teacher education begins in the College of Arts and Sciences with a solid base in a field of study.

The Claxton Medallion Award honors—and enables—A&S graduates headed into teaching.

Psychology professor Gregory Stuart looks for treatments to drastically reduce the devastating effects of family violence, especially that associated with substance abuse.

Attracting the best and the brightest to graduate school at UT Knoxville has become much more likely thanks to three new programs centered in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Humanities and hard science came together in a mutually rewarding joint effort to stage Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen, a play that entertains as it poses timely questions on the ethics of science.

College Scholars are responsible for the most success UT Knoxville has ever had in national competition for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarships.

Though John Nolt is surely future-oriented, directed as he is by the vision of an environmentally sustainable planet, his year at the head of the Faculty Senate has been more eventful than he could have foreseen.

Lasting professional benefits unavailable elsewhere to participating students and faculty members, a helping hand to cash-strapped community nonprofits, and functional esthetic enhancements to the community—could any project offer more than service-learning in public art?

Life’s a song for music major Claire Boling

Doctoral candidate Brad Tice came to the UT Knoxville Department of English to steep himself in its rich creative community; he leaves having launched a literary magazine as well as his own career as a creative writer in academe.

Whether pursuing her goal of competing on the Olympic track and field team or becoming a clinical psychologist, Laura Widman has always been full speed ahead.

True friends of the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the university, Don and Flo Jones demonstrate the amazing results of good intentions backed up with gifts of volunteered time and talent, shared wisdom, and financial resources.

Thanks largely to the college’s Humanities Initiative, achievements in the traditional liberal arts at UT Knoxville have amazed observers both inside and out of the university.