As the spring 2026 submission cycle is now under way, the Graduate School wants to highlight the graduate students who received awards for fall 2025.

Accounting PhD student, Deanie Chaudoin, has gained experience teaching undergraduate courses at UT.

Food science doctoral student Kriza Calumba won the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s, 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition

UT doctoral student Anna Catherine Gibbs’ archaeology research took her to Italy and the opening of an undisturbed tomb from the seventh century BCE.

We have eight more outstanding research programs awarded for spring 2025 across many colleges and departments.

We have eight more outstanding research programs awarded for spring 2025 across many colleges and departments.

Twenty-six outstanding research programs were awarded for spring 2025.

Savannah Brown, a recent MBA graduate from the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business, was named one of Poets & Quants’ (P&Q) 2025 Best and Brightest MBAs, a recognition she attributes to the mentorship and support of Haslam’s faculty and her classmates.

McKenzie Granata, a third-year Phd student in public health, is addressing critical health needs in central Appalachia through community-engaged research, made possible by the Community Engagement Academy.

Among ten Fulbright awardees from UT are a recently graduated master’s student and a current master’s student who will graduate in August.