Of National Note
UT is a partner in managing Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the nation’s largest science and energy laboratory. UT and Oak Ridge share 35 joint faculty and six joint institutes.
The University of Tennessee is the only university in the nation to have three presidential papers editing projects. The university has collections of the papers of all three U.S. presidents from Tennessee—Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson.
The Lady Vols basketball team has won six national championships under Coach Pat Summitt, a national leader in career victories.
UT is home to a one-of-a-kind National Forensic Academy that has trained crime scene investigators from 37 states. Renowned crime novelist Patricia Cornwell is a benefactor of the program, run by the university’s Institute for Public Service. Those who attend the academy study at another one-of-a-kind place, UT’s Anthropological Research Facility, where they learn to work with human skeletal remains. [read more]
The UT College of Pharmacy enrolls the largest percentage of African American students (15.6%) of any U.S. pharmacy school, except for historically black institutions.
UT nutritionist Michael Zemel has established that incorporating dairy foods into a reduced-calorie regime can help dieters lose weight. His latest work shows that dieters who eat as many as four servings a day of dairy foods lose more weight than those who eat less dairy. [read more]
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