University of Tennessee News

I was gone for two weeks on a cruise in the Baltic Sea so it's been fascinating to catch up with Democrat Greg Mackay being reappointed administrator of the Republican-dominated Knox County Election Commission.

An afternoon shooting led to a car chase, crash and search through the woods in East Knoxville today, authorities said.

KNOXVILLE - Donors to academic programs at the University of Tennessee will need to give money to a new fund overseen by the athletic department in order to qualify for tickets to sporting events and to get parking passes starting in the 2010-11 season.

Shelbyville's city council will vote in August on whether to opt out of a new state law that allows those with carry permits to lawfully possess handguns in city parks.

Close to 300 attendees joined the June 30 webcast , Building ROI through Discovery: Leveraging the Value of the Library Collection, sponsored by Serials Solutions and Library Journal .

A federal judge sentenced a retired University of Tennessee professor to four years in prison Wednesday for passing sensitive information from a U.S. Air Force contract to two research assistants from China and Iran.

Workers are toiling in the thick summer heat, trying to bring the campus of Oral Roberts University into the current century.

The University of Tennessee's beloved Rock, which has served as a favorite venue for student self-expression, will be moved in July.

A defense attorney for a University of Tennessee student accused of accessing Alaska Gov.

A 13-year-old boy who died after collapsing while playing basketball on Friday is being remembered as a brave young man who wasn't afraid to have fun and live life to the fullest.

Bill Taylor, a middle school teacher in Sevier County, is the 2009 recipient of the Marian E. Oates Teacher Enrichment Award from the University of Tennessee.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH is in effect for Anderson County , Blount County , Knox County .

University of Tennessee National Forensic Academy student Gerald Carter examines a mock crime scene inside a former rental property owned by Knox County Commissioner Greg "Lumpy" Lambert Thursday.

After earning a law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1981, he began his career clerking for then U.S. Magistrate Roger Dickson.

International experts in electric vehicle technology met in the city Wednesday with UTC researchers aiming to take the plug out of transit bus battery recharging.

St. Albans native Brandon Burgess boarded the first car at Washington, D.C.'s Takoma Metro station about 4:55 p.m. Monday.

What's Next , we mentioned that the Julich Supercomputer Center was boasting it had used the IBM supercomputer design responsible for the world's fastest machine several times over, to build what would likely be recorded as the third fastest supercomputer in the world.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn.-6, was one of four lawmakers to write a letter asking for research into America's collegiate competitiveness.

Investigators looking into the crash of two Metro transit trains that killed nine people are focusing on why a computerized system failed to halt an oncoming train, even though there is evidence that the operator tried to slow it down.

The University of Tennessee's plan to study oversight of its athletic departments addresses a long-standing matter of concern to faculty and one source of the rift that led to the departure of the Knoxville campus's former chancellor.