Ensuring the Future

March 30, 2014 by bharve20

Ensuring the Future

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The College Scholars Program acknowledges the generous financial support of our alumni and friends. Your contributions, no matter what size, play a crucial role in supporting the academic achievement and research of these remarkable students. We hope that you will remember us when deciding to make a gift. Gifts can be made to one of our Scholarship Endowments or to the College Scholars Excellence Fund which provides support for student senior projects or other academic activities. For mailed donations, please send a check payable to the UT Foundation to the address below with College Scholars written in the memo line. For online donations, visit www.artsci.utk.edu/giving and click the “click here to give’ button. On the screen that appears, edit the selected designation. Under “College Fund for Arts and Sciences” there is a drop down menu that includes College Scholars. Please send all checks to:

UTK College of Arts and Sciences
137 Alumni Memorial Building
1408 Middle Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-1331

New Scholarship Endowments

March 30, 2014 by bharve20

New Scholarship Endowments

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College Scholars has several scholarhip endowments that help support our talented students but with the increasing cost of college, additional funds are always welcome. Therefore, we are grateful to two alumni who have pledeged new scholarship endowments in the past year. The two new scholarships are:

The Andrew Hoover Endowed Scholarship, pledged by Andrew Hoover (1984), an attorney in Pulaski, TN.

The Jay and Cindy St. Clair Endowed Scholarship, pledged by Jay St. Clair (1982), an attorney in Birmingham, AL.

In addition, we are pleased to report that both the Laura Bowe Memorial Scholarship and the Joseph B. Kennedy Memoral Fund are fully endowed and are being used to further the work of College Scholars.

For more information on how to establish an endowment for College Scholars, please contact Michelle Geller, Director of Development – UTK College of Arts and Sciences at (865) 974-3816 or by e-mail at mgeller@utfi.org

Save the Date – College Scholars Reunion

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Save the Date – College Scholars Reunion

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To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of College Scholars we are planning a reunion on Saturday, March 1, 2014, in Knoxville. Current plans include and afternoon program where alumni and current Scholars will reflect on the program and its impact on their lives. There will be a gala dinner on Saturday evening with a keynote address by Ellen Godbey Carson, one of the first College Scholars. Further details and costs will be forthcoming, but will be announced first on our Facebook page and LinkedIn group, one more reason to follow us on social media.

Kelsey Ray in Russia

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Kelsey Ray in Russia

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For six weeks last summer Kelsey Ray participated in a budding non-profit program called Crossroads Eurasia, interning as an English teacher at E-Studio School in Ryazan, Russia. Away from the cosmopolitan Moscow, she immersed myself in the Russian language and culture, and visited the local villages and museums, while developing lesson plans and teaching students from ages 7 to 50. She lived with a host family and worked with other students from the USA in teaching and exploring the small city. Among the many benefits of this internship, she will be able to apply what she learned to her current studies in comparative literature and linguistics. Kelsey will spend the spring semester in Marburg, Germany.

Holocaust and Genocide Studies – Emma Hicks

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Holocaust and Genocide Studies – Emma Hicks

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During the spring of 2013 College Scholar Emma Hicks studied abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark through the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in pursuit of her major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Emma was able to take many of DIS’s unique classes concerning the history of Jewish life in Europe, the history of the Holocaust, and the widespread impact that such history has made on the memories and cultural identities of different European nations post-WWII. Another unique aspect of the DIS program in which Emma was able to participate were the Study Tours which allowed students to approach their area of study in a hands-on and experiential manner, combining theory with real life experience and cultural perspective. This active learning approach facilitated an education on the Holocaust from the perspective of current residents from cities like Berlin where layers of victimization and scarring are deeply embedded in the culture. A visit to Auschwitz in April was perhaps the most defining moment of the semester and inspired Emma to use the complexity of memory in places such as this infamous concentration camp as the basis for her senior thesis project to be completed next spring. The project will be a narrative historical exhibit containing pictures and memories from her trip along with research which looks at the controversy of Holocaust recollection and its importance in our modern world.

Wade Guyton receives Accomplished Alumni Award

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Wade Guyton receives Accomplished Alumni Award

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1995 College Scholars alumnus Wade Guyton received an Accomplished Alumni Award in December 2102. Originally from Lake City, TN, Guyton currently lives and works as an artist in New York City. He is the first UT alumnus to have his art featured in the prestigious Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The exhibition entitled Wade Guyton: OS was on display between October 4, 2012 and January 13, 2013. It explored our changing relationships to images and artworks through the use of common digital technologies. The exhibit received a favorable review

in the New York Times which commented that “interesting art is being made here and now.”

College Scholars 40th Anniversary Poster

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College Scholars 40th Anniversary Poster

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2011 alumna Kelsey Roy has designed a 40th Anniversary Poster for College Scholars. This beautiful 11” X 17” poster is suitable for framing. We will send a copy to anyone who donates a minimum of $100 to the College Scholars Excellence Fund. Kelsey’s College Scholars program was entitled “Children’s Book Narrative and Illustration.” Since graduation she has done the illustrations for three delightful children’s books: Yahootie and the Shoe Shenanigans, The Banana Police, and I Really Love You, Ava. During the summer of 2013, Kelsey attended the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University.

Student Scholar Spotlight – Jacob Clark

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Student Scholar Spotlight – Jacob Clark

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Jacob Clark is in the middle of a research project determining the impact of federal health reform in nonprofit primary care providers. He is doing this through two different means. He is currently forecasting the economic environment to determine demand and utilization of different health care services post-reform. He is also performing a case study on a nonprofit primary care provider in East Tennessee looking at their decisions through the implementation of reform. He plans to use those two things and a survey of many similar clinics in Tennessee to determine a broader effect federal health reform will have on mission-driven healthcare organizations.

Jacob has created and founded a new branch of the Student Government Association called the SGA Ambassadors. SGA Ambassadors will be the SGA’s official service organization, focusing on campus service projects. By the end of the year, SGA Ambassadors should be playing a significant role in aiding other student organizations, university functions, and individual students, as it will be meeting the needs of students at their request and designing and carrying out its own service projects.

Jacob and fellow College Scholar Brianna Rader are heading a project working with UTK administrators on designing and implementing a program for incoming students to significantly lower the incidences of sexual assault on campus and the surrounding student communities. This project is the beginning of a larger effort to dramatically reduce sexual assault that will develop over the year. They would like to extend their efforts beyond the university campus.

Alumni Promise Awards

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Alumni Promise Awards

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Two College Scholars received Alumni Promise Awards in 2013: Kevin Burdette (’97) and Michael Wahid Hanna (’95). This award recognizes alumni no older than 40 who have demonstrated distinctive achievement in a career, civic involvement, or both. Kevin Burdette, a graduate of the Julliard School and Columbia Law School, is a full-time oper a singer who has performed with major opera companies and symphony orcherastras and received enthusiastic reviews for his mellifluous voice and strong dramatic characterizations. Michael Wahid Hanna, a graduate of New York University School of Law, is a senior fellow of the Century Foundation where he works on issues of international security, international law, and US foreign policy in the broader Middle East and South Asia.

Nobel Laureate Visits College Scholars

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Nobel Laureate Visits College Scholars

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On April 19 and 20, 2013, Roald Hoffmann, Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters and Professor of Chemistry, emeritus, at Cornell University and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry visited the College Scholars program. On Friday evening there was a dinner reception at the director’s home where many of the scholars were able to talk informally with Dr. Hoffmann. During the evening, he read and discussed some of his poems.

On Saturday afternoon, there was a staged reading of Dr. Hoffmann’s latest play, “Something that Belongs to You,” in the Carousel Theatre. The staged reading was directed by College Scholars alumnus, Dennis E. Perkins (‘89) and featured several of Knoxville’s best actors. The semi-autobiographical play is a story of survival and memory, and of the choices, always there, that human beings must make between good and evil in terrible times. As a small child, Dr. Hoffmann and his mother were hidden in an attic for more than a year to save them from the Holocaust.

Dr. Hoffmann’s visit was sponsored by the College Scholars Program and the East Tennessee Section of the American Chemical Society. It was the first event in what we hope to make an annual series of visits by distinguished interdisciplinary scholars.