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"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the fourth in an eight-part series... 
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the third in an eight-part series...
Two Knoxville artists have collaborated on a new children's book. Local poet and teacher Marilyn Kallet and illustrator Sandra VanWinkle have just released the picture book "Jack the Healing Cat". The glossy, softcover book is aimed at children from one to six years old. "Jack" is a kitten when he's rescued by a little girl. When she falls ill, Jack uses his "kitty magic" to make her feel better. Author Kallet tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd this is her second children's book. And she says writing for youngsters is a treat...
Recently, the College Music Journal held its annual awards ceremony in New York City. The University of Tennessee's student-run radio station, WUTK, was among more than six hundred stations competing for those awards and WUTK wound up being a finalist in six award categories, including Station of the Year. Benny Smith is the general manager of WUTK, and he stopped in to talk to us about the station and the awards...
This evening, the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of Youth and Political Violence will host two speakers who met because of war. Ishmael Beah and Alusine Kamara are both from Sierra Leone. Ishmael is now 26 years old. For much of his childhood, Sierra Leone's government forces clashed with rebel factions throughout the country. When he was 12, Ishmael, his older brother, and some friends went to visit neighbors in another village. They were on their way back to their home village when Ishmael saw the war for the first time. WUOT's Chrissy Keuper reports...
Last week the state of Tennessee completed its largest land conservation project since the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. "Connecting the Cumberlands" brings 127,000 acres of forest land in four counties under state protection. The Nature Conservancy helped broker the acquisition of several parcels. Dr. John Weins is that organization's chief scientist. He tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd the right way to protect these new public forests is to carefully manage their use. And that doesn't always mean a putting a ban on development...
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the second in an eight-part series...
When contemplating retirement, most people think of finances first. But how important are personality and emotion when making plans to retire? Dr. Eric Sundstrom is a professor in the department of Psychology here at the University of Tennessee. He is also a co-founder of the My Next Phase website, and is a co-author on a new book, called "My Next Phase: The Personality-Based Guide to Your Retirement". He recently spoke with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper...
This week, the University of Tennessee welcomes two award-winning international educators to campus. Erin Krampetz is a co-founder of Stanford University's minor in Social Innovation and is the program director of Escuela Nueva International, based in San Francisco. That program is an extension of the Escuela Nueva Foundation, created in Bogota by Vicky Colbert. She is the former Vice Minister of Education for Colombia and is the director of the program. Both sat down with WUOT's Chrissy Keuper...
Author Jan Karon chronicles day to day life in the village of Mitford, North Carolina, a place she's visited in nine novels. Little more than a week ago, she released a new book: "Home to Holly Springs, A Father Tim Novel." It's already into a second printing. Karon finishes up her current book tour in Knoxville today. She tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd she didn't know anything about Mitford until she discovered Episcopal priest, Father Tim...
It seems like you can't open the sports page these days without seeing some reference to some athlete involved in some illegal or immoral act. In fact, this year alone, the sporting world has been rocked with charges involving rape, doping, internal gambling, pandering, prostitution, cheating, drunk driving and dog fighting. And that's just the beginning. Should that really surprise us? After all, athletes are members of society, just like you and me. And society is anything but perfect. Why do we expect our athletes to operate on a different moral plane? And are we justified in doing so? These are just a few of the questions host Matt Shafer Powell poses to his guest on Dialogue. Dr. Fritz Polite is the head of the Institute for Leadership, Ethics and Diversity in Sport at the University of Tennessee...
"The Other Side of the Street" is a collaborative series that attempts to put a human face to the problem of homelessness. It's an opportunity for all of us to cross the street and get to know a little about the people who live on the fringes of Knox County society. This is the first in an eight-part series...
Two University of Tennessee plant pathologists were recently awarded the university's highest award for entrepreneurship. Doctors Robert Trigiano and Mark Windham share the 2007 Wheeley Award for Technology Transfer. Their work with dogwood trees has revitalized the state's nursery industry. The scientists have developed four dogwood varieties resistant to two tree-killing diseases. The prevalence of those diseases had severely limited the use of new dogwoods as ornamental trees. Dr. Windham tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd they've spent years working on the problem...