Bridget Freisthler, the Cooper-Herron Professor in Mental Health at the UT College of Social Work, is leading a multistate intervention in fatal overdoses.
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For 25 years, Paige Braddock has led art direction and coordinated with the licensing office to protect the Peanuts comic strip’s integrity for Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates.
Senior Tim Held met Nikhil Morar (’19), manager of business analytics and strategy for the Los Angeles Lakers, when the 2025 cohort of Volunteer 40 Under 40 winners was honored in February.
Join alumni, UT faculty and staff, and current students on April 25 as we welcome our newest Vols to the family.
Though generations apart, Mackenzie (Kenzie) Greene (Class of 2025) and her grandfather, Bill Webb (‘67, ’74), treasure their time at UT. The pair shared about their time on Rocky Top as well as their recent experience on The Kelly Clarkson Show.
Receiving a scholarship has been life-changing for Sierra Stancil, enabling her to pursue a calling to help those that are disadvantaged and their pets.
Enjoy these stories of how Vol lovebirds met on Rocky Top!
Deep in the middle of the largest city in the world, you can hear the sounds of “Rocky Top” floating down the street. Follow passersby clad in orange to find the now iconic all-orange bar in Tokyo, Japan.
While Denise Tran and Jonathan Mai hold several degrees between them, not one diploma came from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville—yet several of the more than two dozen students they financially supported to attend college studied at UT, including their two sons and multiple recipients of the UT scholarship they established.
Luther Allison, musician and composer, recalls a stressful day trying to get to the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for his performance. It wasn’t until he landed in Salt Lake City the next day that he got the news: he just won a Grammy.
