University of Tennessee News

More and more buildings are going green in East Tennessee and earning LEED Certification.

Thursday morning, Tyson's board of directors named Smith, a 29-year company veteran, as its next president and chief executive off cer.

Chairman of the Board John Tyson, of Tyson Foods, Inc. , announced today that the Board of Directors of Tyson Foods has chosen Donnie Smith, currently senior group vice president of Poultry and Prepared Foods, to be the company's president and chief executive officer, effective immediately.

Nvidia Corp. launches the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing market.

KNOXVILLE - The University of Tennessee Athletics Department is apparently holding out hope that charges against freshman safety Janzen Jackson will be reduced or dropped, which could lead to his return to the football field.

Former tennis phenomenon Blake McMeans, who lost his tennis career and almost his life when he crashed his car after a night of drinking with fraternity brothers, will offer students of Middle Tennessee State University a lesson he learned the hard way when he speaks on Wednesday.

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has sanctioned a fraternity after a freshman drank too much and had to be taken to the hospital.

A supercomputer built on microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices topped the semiannual TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, but others built on Intel 's technology dominated the rest of the list.

At least for the moment, the world's fastest supercomputer is devoted to solving scientific questions that may save the planet - climate change, renewable energy, new medicines - rather than advances in nuclear weapons that might blow it up.

The University of Tennessee has sanctioned a fraternity after a freshman drank too much Oct.

AMD six-core Opteron processors powered Cray Systems' Jaguar supercomputer to score tops among the world's fastest 500 machines.

The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer, pictured here, has been announced as the world's third most powerful computer overall, and is also the world's most powerful academic computer.

AMD Scores Supercomputing Points Even while going through some tough times, AMD holds its own in the supercomputing world.

A man wanted in connection with a Nashville murder has died after jumping from his Knoxville hotel balcony during an arrest attempt.

That noise you hear is Florida coach Urban Meyer laughing his ass off. In case you missed it, news broke this morning that three University of Tennessee Volunteer football players -- freshman defensive backs Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards, as well as freshman running back Nu'Keese Richardson -- have been arrested for attempted armed robbery.

Nov 12, 2009 9:58 AM, By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Much of the time this column focuses on current issues in US agricultural policy: food safety rules, farm program payments, crop insurance, ethanol, and CAFOs, among others.

On many nights this fall, it has been possible to tune in to broadcast network television during prime time and hear a character call someone else a "douche." In just the last several weeks, it has happened on CBS 's "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and the CW's "The Vampire Diaries," which are broadcast at 8 p.m., during what used to be known ...

A man shot after police say he tried to run down a Knoxville Police Department officer is out of the hospital and in jail, according to KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk.

Three University of Tennessee freshmen players charged with attempted armed robbery will not play with the Volunteers at Mississippi.

WVLT Video Screenshot Screenshot of WVLT VolunteerTV exclusive video of the arrests early Thursday morning.