After years of delay, a new University of Tennessee audiology and speech pathology building should begin rising out of the ground at the UT Medical Center complex off Alcoa Highway in Knoxville by next summer.
50 years ago: 1965 “The University of Tennessee wants to help make Memphis the medical capital of the world, and Memphis is well on the way toward becoming just that,” Dr. Andrew Holt, UT president, told an alumni meeting last night at the Rivermont. Dr. Holt said new projects were increasing the diversity and quality… Read More
The renovated facility is home base for the cancer center formed with a partnership of The West Clinic, Methodist Healthcare and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
50 years ago: 1965 NASHVILLE — A half million dollars was authorized Thursday by the Governor for construction of a massive center at the University of Tennessee Medical Units in Memphis for treatment of the mentally retarded.
Falander West hands a pink rose to her husband, Robert West, because, “he went through it with me,” as the pair attended a opening of the “Live! Just as We Are” exhibition of 80 portraits of African American breast cancer survivors from West Tennessee … The exhibit is on display in the lobby of the… Read More
Hallie Murrey Bensinger is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and director of the BSN/MSN Programs.
“This is a huge problem in Memphis, a crisis,” said Dr. Gustavo Miranda-Carboni, a professor and cancer researcher at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Miranda-Carboni, recruited by UTHSC to study breast cancer and related health disparities, is part of a growing consortium of researchers, oncologists and health care providers who aren’t waiting.
A union representing Tennessee public college employees is calling on Gov. Bill Haslam to halt his plans for privatizing management and operations of all state government buildings and facilities, including college campuses.
