Student@Tennessee, Monday, May 9, 2011 
Newsletter for UT Knoxville Students


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Special

--- Editor's Note: This is the final edition of student@tennessee for the spring. Good luck to all our graduates, and if you're coming back in the fall, keep reading student@tennessee to stay up to date on campus events, good news items about your fellow students, and great ways to stay connected to the campus and the Knoxville community. Have a great summer!

--- UT Knoxville and the UT Athletics Department are teaming up to show their Volunteer spirit by helping the residents of ten East Tennessee counties affected by the recent storms. From 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday, May 10, UT students and staff will be collecting items at the Regal Soccer Stadium on Stephenson Drive, on the south side of UT's campus, off Neyland Drive. UT has challenged the campus and surrounding community to fill an 18-wheeler with donations. Requested items include: household cleaning supplies, bottled water, new underwear, infant supplies such as formula, diapers, and baby wipes, towels and washcloths, toiletries – preferably in trial sizes, batteries, flashlights, tarps and duct tape.

http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/05/06/ut-helps-storm-victims/

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Good News

--- Counseling Psychology graduate student Erika Carr, working with associate professor Dawn Szymanski, is the winner of the 2011 Society for the Psychology of Women and Association for Women in Psychology Annual Award for Student Psychological Research on Women and Gender. Her award winning manuscript, entitled "Sexual Objectification and Substance Abuse in Young Adult Women," was based on her doctoral dissertation. The honor includes a cash award and financial support for travel expenses to present the manuscript at other conferences.

--- UT Knoxville continues to be among the top universities in providing wireless Internet service to students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors. In the early 2000s, UT Knoxville led the national charge to make wireless access available across campus. And just a few years ago, UT Knoxville was the first US university to participate in eduroam, a secure, worldwide roaming Internet access service developed for the international research and education community. The university continues to play a vital role in the consortium’s success, hosting the hardware infrastructure that supports all of eduroam's Internet traffic in the U.S.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/05/03/ut-eduroam-wireless-leadership/

--- Andrew Eichel, a graduate student in medieval literature and critical theory, has been awarded a US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Turkish during the summer of 2011 in Turkey. Eichel is among approximately 575 US undergraduate and graduate students who received CLS scholarships to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu languages.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/05/04/ut-student-receives-critical-language-scholarship/

--- Gregg Rader, a junior in economics at UT Knoxville, was recently selected as one of the twelve finalists in Pearson's Insider contest. The Bearden High School graduate will be attending the exclusive National Economics Insider Symposium this June in Washington, DC. The Insider contest, which was open to college students enrolled in an economics course this spring semester, asked for solutions on how we can change our economy for the better.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/05/09/ut-student-finalist-national-economics-contest/

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Mark Your Calendar

--- Commencement ceremonies for spring 2011 graduates begin at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday, May 11. See the Commencement webpage for more details.
http://www.utk.edu/commencement/spring11/index.shtml

--- Graduating seniors and their parents are invited to join the Parents Association staff for a drop-in reception to celebrate their accomplishments as students and recognition for being members of the Parents Association. Bring the entire family on one of the following days - no need to RSVP. The rooms are located on the street level just outside of the Café at the Arena located near the G-10 parking garage. 

* Wednesday, May 11 in Thompson Boling Arena Room A from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
* Thursday, May 12 in Thompson Boling Arena Room A from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
* Friday, May 13 in Thompson Boling Arena Rooms C & D from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

--- Are you interested in representing UT at the 2011 Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C.? The College of Architecture and Design is offering two courses this summer in preparation for the DOE-sponsored event. Students can take ARCH 425: Solar Decathlon (undergraduate course) or ARCH 525: Solar Decathlon (graduate course). Both courses are offered in the first summer session (June 2 through July 6) and the second summer session (July 7 through August 9). Registration is open to all majors.

The first summer session includes hands-on disassembly of the UTZero prototype, observation visits of the "Living Light" house under construction and public tour training and the second summer session includes observation visits of the "Living Light" house under construction, trial site assembly/operation and public tour training. 

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Important Deadlines

--- Pursuit, UT's journal of undergraduate research, is now accepting submissions for the Fall 2011 issue. The journal, which is edited and reviewed by UT undergraduates, publishes advanced, original, research-based undergraduate papers from all academic colleges at UT Knoxville. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2011, for priority consideration and June 30, 2011, for all other submissions. Submissions can be made through the Pursuit website at http://trace.tennessee.edu/pursuit/.

--- Planning on grad school for the fall? Apply today for the 2011 Young Alumni Scholarship. The Young Alumni Scholarship recognizes an alumnus/a who has graduated from UT Knoxville between May 2001 and May 2011 and will be pursuing a graduate course of study at UT during the 2011-2012 academic year. To be considered for the $500 award, the applicant must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 (on a four-point scale). Application deadline is Friday, June 3. For more information on eligibility and to access the online application, visit http://alumni.utk.edu/eblasts/2011YACscholarship.html.

--- The last day for students to sign up for current independent study courses will be June 30, 2011. Students must complete those courses by December 31, 2011. The Department of Distance Education and Independent Study is being phased out, and independent study courses—some of which are still done on paper and mailed back and forth between students and the office—will become fully online.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2011/05/06/distance-ed-changes/

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