Three faculty members were honored this month with awards at the UT Alumni Association Board of Governors Awards Dinner. Dr. Mohammad Ahmadi, the Guerry professor of Management, and Dr. Joseph Jordan, assistant professor in the Department of English, received the association’s Outstanding Teacher Awards.  Nicole Brown, academic advisor and professor in the Communication ... (click for more)

Five teachers and administrators from Girls Preparatory School presented skills for the 21st century – empathy, flexibility, risk-taking, and reflection – at the National Coalition of Girls Schools’ annual conference in Washington, D.C. in June. Not content to offer their expertise to others, they also attended sessions that offered professional development and ideas to bring back ... (click for more)

A young woman was seriously injured on Wednesday night  when she fell approximately 30 feet from a bluff at the the Greenway Farms quarry in Hixson.   Some kayakers were paddling in the quarry shortly after  8 p.m. when they saw the woman fall to the ground below. They immediately went over to the victim and called 911. The Chattanooga Fire Department ... (click for more)

Walker County officials said they are having to take out another loan to deal with debts left by the Bebe Heiskell administration. Commissioner Shannon Whitfield has called a special meeting for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the commissioner's office in Lafayette. The agenda includes a $4 million tax anticipation note from Lafayette Bank, which stepped in to help the new administration ... (click for more)

This week something became abundantly clear to me. The Department of Child Protective Services in the state of Tennessee, or at least in Hamilton County, are asleep at the wheel.   Early yesterday afternoon local news stations broke the news: "Animals Removed from Soddy Daisy Home."  What the news station either didn't know, or didn't report, was that the children of ... (click for more)

On Tuesday morning of this week a six-foot-tall, 6,000-pound monument of the “Ten Commandments” was installed on the Capitol Grounds in Little Rock, Ark. It was privately financed and quite beautiful. Less than 24 hours later, a vehicle crashed into the monument, knocking it off its base (plinth) in the early-morning darkness yesterday. The Arkansas Capitol Police arrested a ... (click for more)