College of Arts and Sciences

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,…
Four Researchers Honored by AAAS as Lifetime Fellows

Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Fellows are elected to a lifetime appointment annually by their peers on the AAAS Council in recognition of their extraordinary achievements. Elected faculty are Professor Albrecht von Arnim of the Department of…
Nashville Housing Research Earns Geography Award

Professor Madhuri Sharma and co-author Mikhail Samarin (’23) from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are receiving the Wrigley-Fairchild Award for the best paper published in the Geographical Review in 2024. Their research examined the experience of immigrants in the Nashville housing market. In the Department of Geography and Sustainability, Sharma has been exploring why people live where…
Cottrell Scholar Award for Tova Holmes

Tova Holmes is a big fan of tiny particles. She’d like it if you were too. An assistant professor of physics, she’s won a prestigious Cottrell Scholar Award to help her move physics forward while inspiring a larger cheering section for all science. The Cottrell Scholar Awards recognize outstanding early-career teacher-scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy. Holmes is…
Book Award Connects UT Professor to Influential Roster of Historians

UT history Associate Professor Victor Petrov joined a celebrated group of scholars in his area of study this year as his recent book Balkan Cyberia earned the 2024 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. Barbara Jelavich was a distinguished and internationally respected scholar who published several works focusing on the same region that interests Petrov. The prize is awarded annually by…
Four UT Faculty Members Named SEC Academic Leadership Development Fellows

Four faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, were selected as 2024-25 Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program Fellows. The program seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within SEC institutions and beyond. Representing a range of leadership positions and academic interests, the fellows were named through a competitive process after…
Maroulas Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor, Director of AI Tennessee

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has appointed Vasileios Maroulas associate vice chancellor and director of the AI Tennessee Initiative. AI Tennessee was established in 2022 to strengthen UT’s research in AI, expand the number of UT students developing AI skills and competencies, and position the state of Tennessee as a national and global leader in the…
Three Faculty Members Named Chancellor’s Professors

Chancellor Donde Plowman has named a new group of Chancellor’s Professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Derek Alderman, David Anderson and Bonnie Ownley. The distinction honors exceptional faculty members for outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to their fields. “These three faculty members, each from a different college, represent the best of our university with their commitment…