The AAPS Student Chapter, in partnership with Vitalant, invites all faculty, staff, and students to participate in our upcoming Blood Donation Drive on Thursday, July 2, in the SAC Building. Every blood donation has the potential to save up to three lives. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our community with… Read More
When Kenneth Ataga, MD, talks about his work, his focus is always on his patients. He has spent more than two decades caring for people with sickle cell disease and searching for better treatments for the condition that often causes unpredictable pain, threatens organs, and shortens lives. “I was attracted to medicine because I wanted… Read More
Anthropic’s Claude 4.6 (Sonnet and Opus) is designed for advanced coding, agentic workflows, and high-volume data processing. It excels at “computer use,” allowing the AI to interact directly with desktop applications for file creation, connectors, skills, and compaction. Key Capabilities and Use Cases Computer Use (Agentic Actions): Claude 4.6 can navigate software, fill forms, and move data… Read More
Plan Information: TASC is your health savings account vendor started on Jan. 1, 2026. You have till June 30, 2026, to transfer your Optum Financial HSA funds to TASC before it becomes a personal commercial account. The transfer form is located online: https://www.tasconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/TN-6250-103025-TASC-HSA-Accountholder-Transfer-Form.pdf There will be a special Optum email to submit the form, which… Read More
The Q3 Research Town Hall, held on Friday, June 12, focused on the implications of recent federal regulatory changes and UT Health Sciences strategies to respond to ongoing research challenges. We encourage all research faculty and staff who were not able to attend to view the recording. Watch the recording>>
The University of Tennessee is documented in Tennessee Code as an instrumentality of the State of Tennessee, public higher education institution (49-9-101 – 49-9-1605) and government entity per Tenn. Code § 4-29-245 (a)(44). Our exemption is under Tenn code 67-6-329 Miscellaneous Exemptions (a)(4) all sales made to the state or any county or municipality within… Read More
The Staff Senate will have its regular monthly meeting Thursday, June 18, from 2 to 3 p.m. The meeting is open to the campus community and will be held via Zoom. On the Agenda: President’s Welcome Special Events Update Employee Appreciation Pop-ups Other Business Summary of May 21 Staff Senate Meeting: Chancellor Peter Buckley, MD,… Read More
The Department of Physiology concludes its Spring Seminar Series this week featuring Dr. Hong S. Lu, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Saha Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky at Lexington – will present her seminar titled “Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection: Translational Insights from Mouse Models to Human Disease” Thursday, JUNE 18th from 3:30… Read More
