Portfolio | Amanda Womac | Freelance Science Writer

Studying the Memory of War

Memory creates powerful narratives that inform several aspects of a nation’s identity. During the summer of 2018, undergraduate students at UT will travel to Europe and ...Read More

From Buddhist Scriptures to Distilled Spirits

As an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences, Nancy Fraley (’93) learned how to learn. After graduating with a degree in religious studies, Fraley went ...Read More

Hellbenders Revealed

Snot otter. Mud devil. Grampus. Walking catfish. Lasagna lizard. These are not the most flattering nicknames, but they are the ones that stuck to Cryptobranchus ...Read More

Forest Gliders

Nestled in hollow tree crevices at the highest elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the park’s more elusive mammals—the Carolina flying ...Read More

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

Here Be Dragons

When people visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park, they are usually expecting to see charismatic flora and fauna such as pink lady slippers or black bears. Insects rarely ...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