Alumni News

Lynne Parker is returning to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, after completing a four-year post as deputy United States chief technology officer and director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office within the White House. In that role, Parker oversaw the development and implementation of the national artificial intelligence strategy. Starting September 6, Parker will …

August 17, 2022 The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Alumni Summer College returned fully in person in July, reaching the 40th anniversary since its founding in 1982—the same year Knoxville hosted the World’s Fair. As in years past, the program offered a host of course offerings and campus updates. Participants learned about topics such as the …

Curtis Watson (’73), Tom Cruise, and Blue Angels Public Affairs Officer Doug Shamp when Watson flew Cruise to give the actor in preparation for the 1986 movie Top Gun.

The Castroverde family’s Volunteer story spans decades and continents. The Castroverde family’s journey to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, began with an escape from revolutionary Cuba during the 1960s and included stops in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Spain throughout the years. Since 1975, when the first Castroverde arrived in Knoxville, seven more of the family …

His music, which has included a stylistic progression from modernism to postmodernism to a fully narrative traditionalism, has been performed live and/or heard on radio or TV throughout the U.S. and, internationally, multiple times in 43 other countries, including France, England, Germany, Japan, Korea, Denmark, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Russia, Portugal, Australia, Brazil, Italy, and …