The Graduate School would like to introduce the newest member of our team, Jennifer Rawdon, who will be assisting graduate students with last names starting with A–K get through the graduation process.

Read about twelve graduate student/faculty pairs who were awarded funding through the Student/Faculty Research Awards.

If you plan on graduating fall 2020 there are a few major deadlines coming up on November 23rd.

ACTive bystander training isn’t just for undergraduate students, it’s for graduate students too.  Participants in the Vols ACT training will learn how to identify sexual harassment behaviors and red flags, understand the effects of harassment in academia, and apply Vols ACT to real-world situations to prevent and respond to sexual harassment.

IRB 101 is an overview of IRB requirements and procedures, and is open to anyone who wishes to learn how to receive human subjects approval for research at the University of Tennessee. If you are doing research, you should probably know what an IRB is, and why it matters to you, so consider attending. For more details about the sessions, visit the Office of Research and Engagement. The next session for fall 2020 is Thursday, November 12th from 10:00am to 12:00pm. You can register for this session at tiny.utk.edu/irb101.

The Big Orange Pantry provides emergency food assistance for students, faculty, and staff attending or employed by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Condensed matter systems and matter-antimatter asymmetry; quantum computers and cryogenic magnets—these are the studies and tools Trevor Keen and Kavish Imam will tackle with support from the U.S. Department of Energy via the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR). With these latest awards, UT is in the top three institutions in the nation for success in securing funding from this program.