Roger Hoover, a junior at the University of Tennessee, who has worked as a sports announcer for many UT athletic event  is one of the Top 20 best student broadcasters in America, according the Sportscasters Talent Agency of America (STAA) All-America Program.

The program recognizes the most outstanding collegiate radio sportscasters in the country and encourages collegiate sportscasters nationwide to strive to achieve their best. Each June, the nation's most outstanding collegiate sportscaster is presented the Jim Nantz Award.

The School of Information Sciences’ Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature is pleased to cosponsor the venerated May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture on April 18, 2009, at the Children's Defense Fund Haley Farm in Clinton, Tenn.

Tom Siegfried, award-winning science writer and new editor-in-chief of Science News magazine, will give the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's annual Alfred and Julia Hill Lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31 in the Shiloh Room of the University Center.

The College of Communication and Information (CCI) has opened a new lab where researchers can study how people use computers and react to what they read on the Internet. 

Mara Naylor, who composed a poem about her life and interests, is the winner of the "What's Your Story?" video contest.