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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is Tennessee’s flagship land-grant university. UT serves the state, the nation, and the world by educating students, enhancing culture, and making a difference in people’s lives through research and service. The university’s world-class faculty and broad-ranging partnerships, including its relationship with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, play a critical role in attracting top students.

We embody excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, creative activity, outreach, and engagement. Our research portfolio is broad and varied, ranging from projects that advance the development of hypersonic vehicles to those that further STEM education in East Tennessee and study Antarctica as a means of better understanding Mars.

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Nashville is one of the fastest-growing U.S. cities and increasingly a destination for immigrants. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Excessively high rents are a major burden for immigrants in US cities

The US economy relies on immigrants to fill jobs, but many of them are struggling with high rent burdens that make it harder to build productive lives and integrate into their communities.
A man pulls his kids behind an electric bicycle near the pier in Huntington Beach, Calif. Paul Bersebach/Orange County Register via Getty Images

E-bike incentives are a costly way to cut carbon emissions, but they also promote health, equity and cleaner air

Many incentive programs promote e-bike use, but they aren’t necessarily targeting the right people for the right reasons.
O fenômeno conhecido como ‘island naïveté’ (ingenuidade insular) faz com que os albatrozes não saibam reagir aos ataques, enquanto pesquisadores lutam para encontrar maneiras de erradicar os camundongos e proteger os pássaros. USFWS - Pacific Region/Flickr

Camundongos assassinos atacam albatrozes em atol no Pacífico, e cientistas lutam para dar fim ao problema

Em uma pequena e remota ilha no Oceano Pacífico, predadores improváveis se alimentam da maior colônia de albatrozes do mundo. Pesquisadores estão tentando descobrir como deter eles
Termos um vocabulário mais rico de palavras na área do amor muda a forma como o entendemos, e a linguagem pode guiar seu coração de maneiras inesperadas. VLADGRIN/Stock via Getty Images Plus

Você está mesmo apaixonado? Como expandir seu vocabulário amoroso pode melhorar suas relações e como você se vê

As palavras têm poder, e o vocabulário que você tem à sua disposição para descrever seus relacionamentos com outras pessoas pode moldar os rumos que esses relacionamentos podem tomar
Students’ lockers are seen an elementary school in Toronto on Jan. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

Trauma-informed approaches to discipline matter for equitable and safe schooling

Additional research and attention is needed — particularly in Canada — to provide schools with evidence-based, trauma-informed and culturally attuned approaches to school discipline.

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