A total of 778 health care professionals will graduate this month from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in six separate ceremonies in Memphis and one in Knoxville. The graduates include 122 from the College of Dentistry, 31 from the College of Graduate Health Sciences, 242 from the College of Health Professions, 160 from… Read More
The Hamilton Eye Institute at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is among 21 institutions in the country, and the only one in Tennessee, where the St. Baldrick’s Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant toward a summer fellow. UTHSC PhD student Zachary Keith Goldsmith has been named a 2017 St. Baldrick’s Summer Fellow. “My… Read More
Donald Thomason, PhD, dean of the College of Graduate Health Sciences (CGHS) at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, hopes that budding scientists and researchers with broad interests find a home in the college often called “the melting pot of health care.” “We want our students to know that it is OK to have… Read More
College of Graduate Health Sciences graduate Jason Workman had quite the resume as a student at UTHSC. He was the graduate student executive council president, the honor council president, and an award winner for his poster at Graduate Research Day. He authored five peer-reviewed publications, and was invited to give a talk at a… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will graduate 135 new health care professionals at its winter commencement. It will take place on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. at the Cook Convention Center Grand Ballroom, 255 N. Main Street. “The faculty and staff of UTHSC celebrate the success of our graduates,” said… Read More
The Student Government Association Executive Council, which serves as the official liaison between the student body at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) and the administration, had the opportunity recently to meet with Chancellor Steve J. Schwab and Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operations Officer Dr. Ken Brown. The meeting was held in… Read More
When Steven Reeves saw a ride-on Power Wheels dump truck last Christmas at Toys “R” Us, he tried to figure out how to rig up a safety harness so his son, Noah, 2, who has hypotonia or muscular weakness, could sit up in it and operate it. Reeves couldn’t do it. But students in the… Read More
Academic year 2015-2016 “was our best year to date,” UT Health Science Center Chancellor Steve J. Schwab, MD, said Tuesday in his annual State of the University Address to the campus. “We have a great story to tell.” The positive tone threaded throughout the speech, as the chancellor detailed growth in enrollment, innovations in education… Read More
