UTSI hosted Astronaut Walter Cunningham to speak about the Apollo space program and his experience going into space.
Engineering student Jasmine Worlds received the Student Leadership Award at the Women of Color STEM Conference.
Ice Vols goalie Mia Becker came to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a transfer from Boston University, where she played goalie for a division 1 hockey team. “I decided to transfer to a school where I could pursue engineering and still have hockey, just not as much as a time commitment, so I came…

Fifth grade students from East Lincoln Elementary School in Tullahoma, TN visited UTSI to see the new new solar observatory.
Gary Flandro, UT professor emeritus, helped enable NASA’s Voyager “Grand Tour” mission, celebrated at its 40th anniversary in Washington, DC.
The Sky & Telescope Magazine’s Great American Eclipse Tour group came to UTSI to see the new observatory and listen to lectures.
WiSTAR3 supports graduate women in STEM at UT Knoxville through networking, events, and professional development.
Like millions of other people around the world, Katherine Van Hooser (’91) spent April 12, 1981, glued to coverage of the first space shuttle launch. As the Space Shuttle Columbia cleared the tower that day, Van Hooser, then a sixth grader in Madisonville, Kentucky, hoped that one day she would work for the space agency. Barely ten…
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s EcoCAR team had their best performance in years at the EcoCAR 3 competition.