Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to speak at UTC

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey will deliver a free, public lecture titled “The Role of the Humanities in Our Personal and Civic Lives” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 5, in the University Center Tennessee Room. The event is presented as part of the O’Dea Lecture in the Humanities series. Continue Reading

UTC invited to join Southeastern Quantum Collaborative

This week, UTC accepted an invitation to join the Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC), created by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). Founding members of the SQC include IBM, Davidson Technologies and Alabama A&M University. Additional organizations—including UTC, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, IonQ and Leidos—have committed to join as inaugural members. Continue Reading

How students use Canvas: Grad student maps attention and engagement 

If you’re a student or faculty member at the UTC, you have most likely used Canvas. Menekse Adar, a graduate student in engineering management at UTC’s College of Engineering and Computer Science, is working to understand how different Canvas course layouts shape students’ engagement in their classes. Continue Reading

Grand opening: Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community

On Wednesday, Jan. 14, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga celebrated the grand opening of its Center for Student Leadership, Engagement and Community (CSLEC) with an afternoon designed for students to stop by, hang out and get a feel for the new Lupton Hall space. Continue Reading

UTC, Erlanger celebrate first Acute Care Physical Therapy Residency graduate

UTC and Erlanger marked a milestone with the graduation of the first resident from their jointly developed Acute Care Physical Therapy Residency during a ceremony at Erlanger Baroness Hospital. The event recognized the completion of the yearlong program by Dr. Cheryl Self, a licensed physical therapist at Erlanger who received her Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) degree from UTC in 2020. Continue Reading

Known as 'Sarge,' UTC engineering student earns Gilman Scholarship after years away from college

At the start of her college journey, she was a nursing student at Chattanooga State Community College who felt lost when she realized that the profession may not be for her. Nearly a decade later, Hobbs is nearing graduation from UTC with a degree in chemical engineering. She is also an Innovations in Honors student in the UTC Honors College and the recipient of the Gilman Scholarship, which will allow her to travel to the Netherlands this spring free of charge. Continue Reading

If these walls could talk: Brock Hall

The United States’ involvement in World War II elevated science to a national priority, and this was reflected in the curricula of higher education institutions across the country in the postwar years. The University of Chattanooga was no exception, and Brock Hall, dedicated in November 1949 as a science building housing the Biology, Chemistry, Engineering Drawing, Geography, and Geology Departments, is a physical reminder of that era. Continue Reading

Master’s student April (A.P.) Horn turns undergraduate research into a future in teaching

With the start of the spring semester, December 2025 UTC graduate April Horn is now enrolled in Graduate School thanks to the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship, a competitive National Science Foundation-funded fellowship that provides STEM graduates with a fully funded pathway to earn a master’s degree in secondary education from UTC in just 14 months. Continue Reading

Mocs Flight Plan takes flight: UTC enrollment strategy moves from planning to action

UTC leaders, faculty and staff gathered Monday, Jan. 12, for the kickoff meeting of the Mocs Flight Plan, marking the start of a coordinated, campuswide effort to implement the University’s Strategic Enrollment Plan approved in fall 2025. The Mocs Flight Plan establishes UTC’s roadmap for reaching 15,000 students by 2030 while strengthening retention, student outcomes and the overall student experience. Continue Reading