University of Tennessee News

CB Richard Ellis Memphis is continuing its aggressive expansion by landing the marketing and leasing contract for a 28-building, 1.2 million-square-foot portfolio at Nonconnah Corporate Center in the airport submarket.

The University of Tennessee's flagship campus is riding a green wave that is sweeping across campuses nationally.

Gov. Phil Bredesen says a legislative staff member who attacked a state-backed initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol is playing politics and endangering chances to land a large investment for East Tennessee.

" Authorities are searching for an East Tennessee man accused of brutally beating another over the weekend in Anderson County.

Intensive care technician Leslie Wereszczak tends to Little Brown Dog, who allegedly was dragged behind her owner's truck.

Some state lawmakers say they were misled in approving $70 million for an initiative to turn switchgrass into ethanol and have delayed approval on part of the project.

Lawmakers said they feel they were duped into spending $70 million of taxpayer money on a plant that isn't living up to its promises.

Carotenoidsa 'fat-soluble plant compounds found in some vegetablesa 'are essential to the human diet and reportedly offer important health benefits to consumers.

The transition zone can be one of the most challenging places to maintain high-quality turfgrass; changeable growing conditions in these regions often prove too hot for some grasses and too cold for others.

Lincoln Memorial University students may get a chance to shadow Knox County school nurses through a potential first-time partnership that will provide extra assistance to school nurses while giving students clinical experience.

By Duncan Mansfield Associated Press Posted Nov 02, 2009 @ 09:00 AM KNOXVILLE, Tenn.

Nov 2, 2009 11:00 AM, By Daryll E. Ray, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN The jump in prices of agricultural commodities in 2008 was devastating not only for US dairy and livestock producers-its repercussions could be felt around the world with food riots in many countries and trade restrictions in a number ...

Two people are seriously injured after a stabbing stemming from a large group fight in Knoxville early Sunday.

Tami Anderson has been promoted to director of accreditation and patient safety at University of Tennessee Medical Center.

A Murfreesboro man was sentenced to two years of probation for sending sexually explicit Christmas cards of his ex-girlfriend to her relatives.

The Knoxville News has the interesting story : A local businessman who is the brother and onetime business partner of a member of Congress has filed for bankruptcy protection.

KNOXVILLE a ' A jury weighing a possible death sentence for the ringleader in the fatal carjacking of a young Knoxville couple heard Thursday about the warm loving middle-class background of the victims and the poor, neglected and abused upbringing of the defendant.

Rocky Top, you'll always be ... a real place. All you Alabama Crimson Tide and Florida Gator and South Carolina Gamecock fans take note: Rocky Top actually exists.

The study, which appears in the December 2009 issue of the journal The American Naturalist, says that positive feedback loops between fire and trees associated with savannas can make fires more likely in these ecosystems.

By all accounts, Channon Christian and boyfriend Christopher Newsom was a young couple who seemed very much in love.