Jen Roder

Friday Exams rescheduled for Saturday, May 9

After a nationwide outage yesterday and into last night, Canvas is now up and running and available to all users. Final exams that were scheduled to be given today will be moved to tomorrow, Saturday, May 9. Exams will follow the same schedule, including times and locations, originally planned for today. The schedule of exams is available below. Students who are unable to…
Friday Exams Postponed due to Canvas Outage (5-7-26)

Faculty, staff, and students Due the ongoing nationwide Canvas outage, all Friday exams are postponed. Faculty, staff, and students will receive more information Friday on a revised schedule. Instructure, Canvas’ parent company, shut down Canvas nationwide due to a cybersecurity incident that has affected education institutions across the country. Learn more about the Canvas outage. …
Nationwide Canvas Outage (5-7-26)

Faculty, staff and students, We need to alert you that Instructure, Canvas’ parent company, has shut down Canvas nationwide due to a cybersecurity incident that has affected education institutions across the country. We do not know when service will be restored. Instructure has posted a status page to share updates on the outage. We will follow up when Canvas is available. All faculty are urged to be…
Coming soon: UT AI Hub

We are excited to share that the UT AI Hub will launch in late March and serve as a comprehensive platform providing access to full versions of the four leading large language models: ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and Claude. This hub will provide our community with unprecedented flexibility to choose the most appropriate AI tool for specific tasks and preferences. …
Vickie Niederhauser to retire

After years of exceptional leadership, Dr. Victoria Niederhauser, dean of the College of Nursing, has announced her plans to retire at the end of this academic year. For the past fifteen years, she has led the college’s outstanding faculty and staff with vision, compassion, and dedication, transforming the college into a nationally recognized leader in…
UT Kicks Off Fall Semester with Record Enrollment, Campus Upgrades

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will welcome new and returning students to campus as the fall semester begins Monday, Aug. 18. With record total enrollment surpassing 40,000, the university remains dedicated to expanding educational access and providing an unparalleled student experience. The university expects to meet or exceed its fall 2024 retention rate of 91.9%,…
Increase in Minimum Graduate Student Stipends

The minimum graduate student stipends for Fiscal Year 2026 have been updated. Minimum stipends are prorated for positions that are less than 50 percent time. With these updates, we have achieved the goal set in August 2023 of aligning minimum stipends with the living expenses in UT’s estimated graduate student budget. Moving forward, we will continue the practice of regular review…
Collaboration Between UT and UTMC Could Revolutionize Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Researchers in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering are using artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide treatment plans to breast cancer patients more quickly by analyzing pathology reports and other clinical records to determine how much breast cancer is in the body. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in Tennessee and…
Five UT Faculty Receive Fulbright Awards

Five faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville — Christopher Cherry, Virginia Corrigan, Bernard Issa, Hector Pulgar and Tong (Toni) Wang — have been selected to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2025-26 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Fulbright U.S. Scholars are faculty,…
Patrick Biddix Named Associate Vice Provost for Student Success and Executive Director of the QEP

Dr. Patrick Biddix has accepted an offer to serve a 12-month appointment as Associate Vice Provost for Student Success and Executive Director of the QEP. Dr. Biddix most recently served as a Professor of Higher Education and the Director of Research and Assessment for the Division of Student Success. He will begin his role on July 1. This position will…