Featured Articles | Amanda Womac

Fire Sparks Life and Research Opportunities

In late November of 2016, a single spark started a fire on a mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) that quickly became one of the largest natural ...Read More

Social Justice, Forensic Science Drives Steadman

Dawnie Steadman, Anthropology As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Dawnie Steadman was restless. She wanted to understand how anthropology could help ...Read More

Diversity of Outreach

Michael Camponovo and Nathan McKinney joined the staff of the Department of Geography in August 2016 for one reason: to build the geographic information system (GIS) program. ...Read More

Diversity of Disciplines

Mike McKinney is always up for a challenge. When the environmental studies program he developed became part of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2011, he was ...Read More

Diversity of Species

Jessica Budke’s fascination with plants stems from a family vacation to the Missouri Botanical Gardens when she was in high school. Although she grew up going to the ...Read More

The New American Gothic

American Gothic captures a moment in agriculture—a snippet, a portrait of an entire profession as old as time. What it doesn’t depict are the years of innovation that led ...Read More

Diversity of Conflict: Anthropological Perspective

Tricia Hepner is the director of a unique program that explores aspects of conflict and disasters in the human experience across three sub-disciplines of anthropology: ...Read More

Diversity of Growth: Reading the Tree Rings

Henri Grissino-Mayer is not a psychic; he’s just good at reading tree rings. More than 30 years ago, he wanted to learn a technique that would tell him about past ...Read More

Strong Hall Residents Over the Moon

In a corner of Strong Hall, UT’s new state-of-the-art science facility, the past and the future coalesce to form the Visualization Lab, informally known as the “Mission ...Read More

Innovations in Carbon Capture

Neil Williams started his college career as a biology student with hopes of going to medical school. However, all that changed when he took organic chemistry. “I fell in ...Read More