Uncovering UT, volume 2

Uncovering

UT

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT By the students of the Business and Future of Journalism course in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media Volume 2

December 2014

Introduction

Uncovering UT is the class project of the JEM 499 Business and

The book is part of the Tennessee Journalism Series, a set of

Future of Journalism course (Fall 2014) in the School of

interactive, multimedia books produced by the School of

Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee.

Journalism at the University of Tennessee.

This book was conceived to give the seniors in the journalism

We hope you enjoy this book and find out more about the

program at UT a chance to produce an interactive, multimedia

University of Tennessee.

book that would be focused around a central idea: what are some of the interesting things about the University of Tennessee that people might not know about.

We selected 10 programs, centers or activities, but, of course, there are many, many others.

The book is published in two volumes (because of file size). This second volume includes chapters on the the Center for Physical Activity, the Science Alliance, the Center for the Study of War and

The designer The designer of this book is Dallas Abel, a student in the JEM 499 course. In addition to his duties as a team member, Dallas volunteer to be the iBooks Author editor for the entire project. His takent, organizational abilities and hard work brought this project into being.

The opening video of the book was produced by David Vincent.

Society, McClung Museum, and the Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

The first volume includes chapters on the UT Culinary Program, the new SEC Network studio at UT, the Center for Equine

The professor The professor supervising this project is Jim Stovall.

Veterinary Research, and UT’s Forensic Anthropology program.

Each of the chapters of this book was produced by a team of students, and the final section in each chapter tells you who those student are.

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Copyright Š 2014 This book is copyrighted by the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee.

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced without the permission of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee.

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Tennessee Journalism Series

Other books in active development include: Journalism and Social Media (Ioana Coman and Margaret Grigsby)

The Tennessee Journalism Series is a set of texts and instructional material developed by the faculty of the University of Tennessee School of Journalism and Electronic Media for journalism students and instructors around the world.

Legal Issues for Journalism Students (Mike Martinez and Dwight Teeter)

The idea behind the series is “multimedia first.”

Full descriptions of the books available with their iBookstore, Kindle and Amazon links can be found at http://tnjnseries.com.

That is, these books are built for the iPad and contain a variety of multimedia elements: text, audio, video, photo galleries, interactive images, and interactive reviews and quizzes.

The British Media (Mark Harmon)

At present, books available in this series include: Feature Writing Going Online: How to Start a Scholastic News Website How to Get a Job as an On-Air TV Journalist (Denae D’Arcy) Introduction to Journalism Media Reporting Photojournalism: Telling Stories with Pictures and Words Reporting: An Introduction The First Amendment Writing Like a Journalist (Jim Stovall)

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Chapter 1

Avoiding the Freshman 15

The Center for Physical Activity and Health is dedicated to helping students maintain a healthy lifestyle. The center offers multiple resources such as tests and dietary analysis. Using this center can help students beat the “Freshman 15.”

Section 1

Overview QUICK FACTS

The University of Tennessee Center for Physical Activity and Health is part of UT's

1. Located at 1914 Andy Holt Avenue.

Department of Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies, located at 1914 Andy

2. Membership to the Center for Physical Activity and Health is open to all faculty and students of the University of Tennessee.

3. Look them up the Center for Physical Activity and Health on Facebook and Twitter

Holt Ave. next to the intramural facilities at T-RECS. The Center for Physical Activity and Health emphasizes the importance of physical activity in people's lives. They also emphasize how good health and fitness habits are highly beneficial to a person's lifestyle. Â Â The center helps its members by conducting several individual tests on its members and helps them to know where they stand at any given time. These tests are very important because they show the individuals the areas that need to be emphasized the most. These areas can vary over time, so it is important for participants to know where they stand periodically.

It is not a temporary commitment. It is a full-time commitment to properly eat and exercise daily to maintain a healthy lifestyle, whether individuals want to simply maintain their healthy lifestyle or improve their health.

The Center for Physical Activity and Health will work with you and provide the tools you need to reach any personal goals. They will also help you to maintain your motivation to keep improving your health, as wells as their full, undivided attention throughout the process.

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Membership to the Center for Physical Activity and Health is open to all faculty and students of the University of Tennessee, and there are two membership option available: a standard membership for $50 or a Big Orange membership for $100.

There are 3 main types of testing done at the lab: Aerobic Performance Testing, Body Composition Testing, and Dietary Analysis. Each is important in determining your health status to help individuals know where they stand and what they need to do to improve their health.

The Center for Physical Activity and Health's latest research project involves physical activity in children, particularly layout of a playground and enjoyment, as well as research in many other areas. They are also ready to help anyone who is willing to be a subject of their studies.

The center is now on Facebook (facebook.com/ CPAHUTK) and Twitter (@CPAH_UT) to allow its members to stay current with upcoming events and other announcements.

Front door of The Center For Physical Activity and Health.

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Section 2

The Freshman 15 and Lack of Physical Activity QUICK FACTS

College students face large amounts of stress

1. The ‘Freshman 15’ is an average weight gain, some gain less and some gain more.

freshman year. The “freshman 15” is something that almost every college student

2. Staying active and eating healthy will prevent weight gain during your freshman year and years to come.

commonly used in the United States that refers to freshman college students

and anxiety, especially in their

has heard about before they entered college. The “freshman 15” is an expression gaining and average of 15 pounds in their first year of college. The 15-pound

weight gain is an average, meaning some students gain less and some gain more.

With all of the stress and changes that college student’s face, something has to be put on the back burner. In most college student’s lives, it’s their eating habits.

Students spend more time doing homework and studying that their eating

habits suffer. When a student is on a crunch for time and low on money, eating junk food or grabbing a dollar hamburger and fries from McDonald’s is much more convenient than spending the time and more money on finding/cooking something healthier.

Many people believe that the “freshman 15” is a myth, but college students should be aware that the issue is out there and many studies have been done that have shown positive results of some amount of weight gain.

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The “freshman 15” should not be taken lightly. It is important for

break from studying and take a run with some friends for 30

students to pay attention to what bad foods they are eating and

minutes. Be

active. Eat healthy. If college students do those

how often they are eating them.

With all the stresses that college students face, it is really easy to

things during ALL of their

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college years, they can stay in shape and not

put on some weight, especially

worry about gaining

when students do not stay active.

weight!

Along with bad eating habits,

Want more help on how to

physical activity also declines

stay active and watch your

in college students. This is also a

weight while in college?

result of the crunch on time issue.

Continue reading to learn

Between classes, studying, and

about what is on The

even life outside of college, like

University of Tennessee’s

jobs and families, finding the time

campus that can help you

to exercise is slim to none. When

with all of your weight and

college students get a break from

physical activity needs!

all of those things, it’s so easy to just want to be lazy and do nothing.

Long story short, with all the challenges that college students face, don’t let bad eating habits and lack of physical activity be one of them. Make a point to

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Section 3

Health and Fitness Testing/Diet Counseling QUICK FACTS

Stay away from the freshman 15 by visiting the Center for Physical Activity and

1. The center oers tests such as the Bod Pod and VO2 Max to its members.

Health. They have many resources to help you live a more active and healthy

2. Get a dietary analysis at the center.

lifestyle. The Center has equipment to measure your aerobic performance such as the VO2max, Lactate Threshold, and the Submax Bike. There are also tests that measure your body composition such as the Bod Pod, Skin Folds, Bioelectrical Impedance, Segmental Bioelectrical Impedance,

Interactive 1.1 Emily

and Resting Metabolic Rate. All of these tests can be run/analyzed by the

Emily Post

public, but students at the University of Tennessee get them at a discounted price.

We had the opportunity to meet with Graduate Assistant Emily Post, whoEmily’s Hobbies told us all about the equipment used at the Center.

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Do you like to run marathons or train to your max?

The VO2max

Test is for you! According to

Movie 1.1 Brittany Mannis

Emily Post, “This test measures maximal aerobic capacity by gradually increasing the exercise intensity until you are unable to continue. The results help you better establish target heart ranges for training.” While the general public would pay $75 for this test, students get it for $25.

The Lactate

Threshold test is “conducted on

a treadmill and is used to determine your exercise intensity at which your body begins to accumulate lactic acid in the blood. The results will help you establish the most effective heart rate and exercise intensity for training.”

The most widely used equipment at the University for testing body composition is the Bod

Pod.

UT Student, Brittany Mannis, getting testing in the Bod Pod. The results were then analyzed and discussed with Center’s Graduate Assistant, Emily Post.

This test “uses air displacement to measure body density, which can then be used to calculate body fat percentage and lean mass.”

UT Student, Brittany Mannis, getting testing in the Bod Pod. The results were then analyzed and discussed with Center’s Graduate Assistant, Emily PostUT Student, Brittany Mannis, getting testing in the Bod Pod. The results were then analyzed and discussed with Center’s Graduate Assistant, Emily Post 11

Testing equipment at the center.

UT Student, Brittany Mannis’s test results from the Bod Pod. 12

Gallery 1.2 Bod Pod Information Do you want to know how many calories your body is burning while you are resting? The Resting

Metabolic Rate test will

tell you just that! You lay on your back fully rested for about 40 minutes while breathing into a metabolic cart. “This measurement is effective in calculating calorie consumption needed to effectively gain or lose weight.” Students can have the test done for $25.

Once you have your results and want to start living a more active lifestyle, there is only one more step; get a Dietary

Analysis.

Your diet will be analyzed using 3, 24-hour dietary recalls. “The analysis will provide you with a better understanding of how dietary intake compares to your current recommendations.”

Students can get the DA for $40.

If you are a future/current student at the University of Tennessee, take advantage of the opportunity you have to live a more active and healthy life on campus.

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Section 4

Things To Do At TREC To Stay In Shape QUICK FACTS

Get involved in Group Fitness Check the Trec front desk for the class you’re

1. The center offers tests such as the Bod Pod and VO2 Max to its members.

interested in!

2. Get a dietary analysis at the center.

Strength classes for Women (guns and buns), and Men (body sculpt) are available at the T-rec if you’re looking for workouts to get your body beefed up and toned for college life.

High Intensity workouts for those of you that want to get ripped include a class called Resistance Interval Power Plyometrics Endurance Diet & Nutrition (RIPPED).

Formatted to make your metabolism push to its max. Tabata and the WildCard Workout also will have you drenched and burning calories five times as fast as normal. Insanity, as you’ve all heard of, Is also offered.

For your Mind and Body the T-rec offers Yoga/Meditation classes including Yogalates! Yogalates combines the relaxation and flexibility focus of yoga, with the core strengthening techniques used in Pilates, to strengthen and lengthen your body, and of course brings wellness to your mind at the same time.

Zumba, Zumba Hip-Hop, Zumba Cycle, and Zumba Core are all aspects of the classes offered at the T-rec, giving you the power of fitness and fun in one workout. If you don’t like Latin you can do the Hip Hop Zumba. If you were to choose the Zumba Core route you would be put into a regular Zumba class 14

combined with core busting exercises. While the Zumba

Gallery 1.3 Map My Walk

Cycle, will have you drenched in sweat working your cardio to the max, but fun!

The Trec also features Rec Sports for your fitness including: •

Caving

•

Kayak

•

Canoe

•

Backpacking Download the free App “Map My Walk” on your phone to know how far you’ve walked/ biked on campus today!

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Fishing

•

Rafting

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Climbing

•

Biking

•

Hiking

•

Cycling

•

fencing

available to the public!

•

swimming

• And many other Special events such as the Vol Walk. No not the

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floor hockey

•

volleyball

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indoor and outdoor soccer

•

Tennis

•

There is a Track upstairs at the Trec and the outdoor track is

football one!

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The Vol Walk is an event coordinated by Center for Physical Activity and Health. It is free every year in October. And it only last about 30 minutes. A Vol celebrity walks every year as the leader of the pack. There will be water as well as snacks provided.

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Section 5

The Team THE TEAM 1. Richard Thomas 2. James Vaughn 3. Brittany Manniss 4. Erica Fabbri, team manager

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Chapter 2

Pushing the edges of research The University of Tennessee has a lot to oer undergraduates, but it also oers a lot to graduate students as well. The Science Alliance is an organization that prides itself on giving students and faculty the opportunity to take part in cutting edge research.

Section 1

WHAT IS SCIENCE ALLIANCE? QUICK FACTS

Did you know that there is a great opportunity on campus for the science lover?

1. 1. Funding for the Science Alliance is about 4.5 million dollars per year.

Since 1984, the University of Tennessee’s Science Alliance program has had the

2. 2. Students and faculty in the Science Alliance get the opportunity to work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

mission of expanding

Movie 2.1 What Is Science Alliance

cooperative ventures in research with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

3. 3. The Science Alliance is diverse in its projects. They range from the study of proteins and neurons to smart buildings and electric cars.

and in that process enhancing science and engineering research programs.

ORNL is a science and energy lab, and it is one of a kind. It is rare that a university gets the opportunity •What is Science Alliance is a clip of Dr. Taylor Eighmy explaining.

to work closely with a laboratory like ORNL.

The Science Alliance, a Tennessee Center of Excellence, focuses on research done by scientist and engineers who concentrate on problems at critical developmental stages, where research results can provide strong arguments for 19

increased awards and fruitful

Gallery 2.1 EV Charging Station

UT-ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) connections.

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Movie 2.2 Saeed Anwar

collaboration between the University and the National Lab, and it has proven to become a very valuable investment strategy for us in terms of getting our faculty and lab scientist

working together and

supporting graduate students principally.” Vice Chancellor for research Dr. Taylor Eighmy

Oak Ridge is a clip of Graduate Student Saeed Anwar talking about getting to work with Oak Ridge.

“It’s a very important component of my job relative to what I’m trying to do with

growing our relationship with Oak Ridge

National Lab. The Science Alliance was stood up in the eighty’s as a special line item coming from the state to exactly support 21

Section 2

WHO CAN JOIN? LOREM IPSUM

The Alliance not only supports graduate students, but undergrads and faculty as

1. Oak Ridge is located about 30 minutes from The University of Tennessee, which makes it easy for researchers to commute.

well by funding research projects through grants allocated by the Tennessee Legislature. Annually, Science Alliance is granted a base foundation of four and a half million dollars a year.

2. Over 2,000 scientists and engineers work at Oak Ridge.

Movie 2.3 Dr. Eighmy

•Undergrads is a clip where Dr. Taylor Eighmy speaks on undergrads benefiting from the Science Alliance 22

Movie 2.4 Dr. Eighmy The Science Alliance is anchored by their Distinguished Scientist Program which supports high profile, joint UT-ORNL leadership in research areas where UT and ORNL share complementary strengths (http://www.ornl.gov/) . Current scientist include Elbio Dagotto, who studies transition metal oxides and the recently discovered iron arsenide materials, Takeshi Egami, who studies atomicscale dynamics of liquids and gasses; Hightemperature superconductivity, and Robert Hatcher, who studies structural geology and tectonics of continental crust. Dr. Hatcher has a unique position with UT. He not only does geology research, but he also teaches geology classes on

•Impact of Science Alliance Clip tells how it benefits UT.

campus because of his love for teaching. The Science Alliance has benefitted UT by not only great research,

supporting graduate students and their academic programs and

but also by bringing great educators to the university. There are

their research programs and the Science Alliance dollars end

four other scientist whose studies consist of varying fields of

up being very very valuable for helping support graduate students

engineering and advanced science.

throughout typically their PHD programs in either engineering or in the sciences.”

“If you look at the impact that our dollars from the Science Alliance have had in growing

the stature of the distinguished

scientist, supporting their basic core portfolio of

discovering

that has been profound. Those are some of our most talented faculty here on campus,” said Vice Chancellor Eighmy. “So the return on investment there has been really really high and as a state university we need to do as much as we can around 23

Movie 2.5 Vincent Zhang

Funding is Graduate Student Vincent Zhang talking about Science Alliance funding for his project.

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Section 3

Science Alliance programs Another profound program in Science Alliance is Joint Directed Research. JDRD complements the Laboratory Directed Research and Development program (LDRD) at ORNL; LDRD is a Department of Energy program that encourages multiprogram DOE laboratories such as ORNL to select a limited number of projects with the potential to position the lab for scientific and technical leadership in future national initiatives. JDRD awards run for two years with a progress assessment at the end of year one to determine if second-year funding will be awarded. Secondyear funding is based on the development of the partnership and the research progress thus far.

When you think of science, you probably think of beakers and test tubes in a laboratory. The Science Alliance goes far beyond that. It gives hands on experience to students in many different areas of study. Vincent Zhang, a Ph. D. student in Engineer at UT, is currently taking part in the JDRD program by researching ways to enhance the use of electric cars. By researching algorithms to increase battery life and efficiency in electric vehicles, Zhang and his team hope to increase the use of EV cars nationwide. Saeed Anwar, another member of the EV research team said, “This project actually gives us the opportunity because we are trying to get a leap ahead of the conventional things…We are trying to reduce the converter size so it will…impact the oil efficiency.” Zhang and Anwar would not be able to participate in this research if it were not for the Science Alliance. Getting

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funding can be as easy as filling out paperwork

Movie 2.6 Vincent Zhang

explaining your project idea.

The purpose of the Science Alliance is to deliver opportunities to passionate engineers and scientist who wish to research projects that without proper funding, they might not be able to otherwise. Just like graduate and faculty projects, undergraduate research is also prominent among the Science Alliance program.

Why you like EV is a clip of Graduate Student Vincent Zhang telling why he likes studying EV in electric cars.

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Movie 2.7 Dr. Eighmy

with graduate students.” Vice Chancellor for

research Dr. Taylor Eighmy The Science Alliance is a strong asset to UT. It is creating opportunities for students and faculty and giving hands on experience through work with ORNL. This opportunity cannot be replicated and it is helping the school become one of the top research schools in the country. UT is using this funding to better the students, school, and the world around us.

• Where does the money go is a clip with Dr. Eighmy telling exactly where the Science Alliance dollars go.

“There are undergrads that are involved in a lot of the projects.

Typically in the JDRD

projects you can have support for

undergraduates and our cohort program…there’s

opportunity

for those faculty to support undergrads, and some of our core dollars in the Science Alliance program have been used to support active involvement by undergrads and research projects.

So there is a direct tie in but not maybe quite as strong as there is

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Section 4

The Team THE TEAM 1. Riley Stoner 2. Alexandra Harper 3. Maci Lewis, team manager 4. Team name: Smokey’s Vols

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Chapter 3

First-hand experiences of war Type to enter text

Section 1

The Story Ships lined up in the harbor. Every five minutes a train would pull

were hit,” Morton said. While the American soldiers were

up and soldiers would fall out like chickens coming out of a

unloading into smaller boats, the British soldiers were lowering

roost. After filling eight or ten cruisers and destroyers with

pots and kettles full of tea. “They had to have their tea,” Morton

soldiers, the ships departed across the Atlantic. Every fifteen or

laughed.”

twenty miles, the ships would change course, “because that water out there was infested with submarines,” Charles Morton Jr said, a veteran of World War II. After a week at sea, they smelled land. “Land has got an odor to it. We could smell it,” Morton said. On the eighth day, they pulled into Belfast- the capital of modern day North Ireland. A man handling the ropes told Morton something he never forgot, “You look just like your daddies when they came over here in 1917.”

Less than three weeks later, Morton and his company were given white uniforms and told they were going to Norway, to meet the Germans. After a few days at sea, “We knew damn well we [weren’t] going to Norway” because it “had done got hot,” Morton said.

The ship pulled into the harbor west of Oran, Algeria. Gunfire began, “big plates of steel would just fly off the boats as they A photo from the World War II Archival Collection.

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This gripping story and many others are part of a series of oral interviews conducted by the faculty at the Center for Study of War and Society. The center aims to foster a lively and scholarly discussion of conflict and society. Scholars from journalism, English, modern foreign languages, religious studies, psychology and more converge to discuss the big questions about war and peace in their field. Each semester, the center holds events as part of research seminars that deal with the aftermath of wars.

Once on land, the allies returned fire. Morton recalled seeing an American soldier with a 37 mm rifle on top of a trailer. Morton watched as an armoured car drove toward them. Once the car was less than a mile away, the man with the rifle took one shot and he got it.

Soon after the elimination of the first, another car appeared, also headed toward them. The rifleman took one more shot - “Two shots, two armoured cars,” Morton said.

The fire fight continued for three days, “Those son of a guns were putting up a pretty good fight,” Morton said. These formidable foes were the French not the Germans, “a lot of people don’t know that,” Morton said.

Tapes of oral interviews with veterans conducted by the Center for the Study of War and Society.

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Section 2

The Center Movie 3.1 How the Center Started Founded in 1988 by Dr. Charles “Chuck” Johnson, the Center for the Study of War and Society is actively engaged in historical work across academic disciplines. Johnson had a remarkable and prophetic insight about how necessary and vital it is to collect first hand experiences from American veterans.

Starting with oral histories, Johnson felt this was urgent because the greatest generation was beginning to fade in the late 1980’s.

The center began by going to veteran’s reunions in East Tennessee and asking veterans directly.

The Center for the Study of War and Society.

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After that point it went viral – the attendees spread the word from Arizona to Alaska. Johnson was pleased by the huge response of people wanting to share their stories. The center received pieces from veterans all over the country. They worked to collect memories of American veterans and those who experienced American conflicts.

Three distinguished faculty members run the affairs of the center.

Cynthia Tinker enlisted as an aircraft electrician in U.S. Air Force Special Operations and graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in History and minor in Biology.

Captain Rosemary Bryant Mariner worked as a naval aviator, squadron commander and military consultant for ABC News.

Captain Mariner holds a Master’s of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

The director of the Center for the Study of War and Society is Dr. Vejas Liulevicius. He is a German historian and teaches graduate students, focusing on how war has shaped the modern world.

Graduating from University of Pennsylvania, Liulevicius’ focus is on modern Germany and diplomatic history.

Dr. Vejas Liulevicius, director of the Center for the Study of War and Society

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The center’s success in collecting memories is not limited to

Movie 3.2 Why the Center is Important

the United States. Fellowships have been established with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Cambridge University in England and the North East Institute of Lüneburg in Germany.

“It’s easy to get the bare facts. It’s hardest to recover the emotion: the hatreds and the loves that go into conflict.”

A collage of the World War II Veterans Project 34

Movie 3.3 The Art of the Interview

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Section 3

Gallery 3.1 Photos from the World War II Archival Collection

The

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Section 4

The Collection Once completed, oral interviews are available to the public

The gathering of historical evidence is a unique mission, because

immediately. “There are stories in there – an amazing wealth of

it brings to mind the adage that if we don’t learn from history, we

the testimonies to the character of the person being interviewed,

are doomed to repeat it. The center has gathered 364 veteran

as well as the things they lived through,” Liulevicius said. The

interviews – all amazing primary sources. Outside of interviews,

family of the interviewed veteran gets a copy, which is “an

the center has received photographs, letters, drawings, journal

incredible testimony of familial value,” Liulevicius said.

entries, which are all a part of the center’s World War II Archival

He recalled a time when he interviewed a veteran who played a

Collection.

role in US intelligence gathering in Cold War Berlin, “which is fascinating. To hear the matter-of-factness with which veterans talk about experiences just boggle the imagination,” Liulevicius said.

Alison Vick, a doctoral student assistant at the center, has conducted interviews with alternative perspectives. She interviewed a German WWII veteran. “He fought for the Axis powers as captain of the Wehrmact,” Vick said, “It was very interesting to interview someone who has lived through these chaotic, fascinating and horrific time periods. Someone who could tell you what it was like to live in Weimar Germany, Nazi Germany and divided Germany.”

Alison Vick, doctoral student assistant at the Center for the Study of War and Society.

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The World War II Archival Collection is housed in the Special Collections in Hodges Library on the campus

Movie 3.4 What is the World War II Archival Collection?

of the University of Tennessee. Each piece in the collection is preserved for use by scholars at the University and beyond.

The collection focuses on how warfare and conflict have an impact on society, individuals, groups of people and their self-understanding.

WWII was an “epic struggle” that took on many dimensions,” Liulevicius said. Their collection works to give scholars a sense of the human costs and human toll of the war.

One of the most gripping facts high school and college students realize when they visit the center is that most of these war heros from WWII were not much different in age from themselves. “When you talk about World War II or other conflicts, you realize you are talking about people on the front lines that are their age,” Liulevicius said, “Or even younger. They lied about their age to enlist. The people in their age bracket were the main historical actors in these events.”

“It’s really a remarkable gathering of resources for historians who try to make sense of this huge, epic conflict that still reverberates to our own days.”

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Movie 3.5 The Center and the Community The World War II Archive is just the tip of the iceberg.

“We want to be able to capture the memories of other American conflicts – Korean, Vietnam, or Cold Wars.

We want to start recording the memories of MiddleEast veterans. Our ambition is be true to the descriptor of ‘war and society’ – not just talk to veterans, but to encompass the civilian experience as well,” Liulevicius said.

On a comedic note, Liulevicius said, “It’s dangerous to start going through the collection! Once you sit down and read a letter here or a photo album there, you get drawn into it. Next time you look up, hours have gone by!”

“We’re delighted at the level of community interest. Particular in an area with such rich traditions of military history and the Volunteer state of Tennessee.”

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Section 5

The Team THE TEAM 1. Nicholas Di Leo 2. Andy Vincent 3. David McCarville 4. Benjamin Smith, team manager 5. Team name: The Coolest Snake Ever

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Chapter 4

From Dinosaurs to Dinnerware McClung Museum exhibits the geologic, artistic, and historical past of the state of Tennessee and around the world. The museum is one of only 18 of its kind in the state of Tennessee to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. This chapter highlights the history of the museum, current exhibits on display, and the people who help make the museum what it is.

Section 1

Creating a place for history The Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture gives visitors, students, and faculty at the University of Tennessee an opportunity to connect with the past, taking them back to both recent history and ancient times. Dating back to its opening on June 1, 1963, over 1.4 million visitors and hundreds of exhibits have entered the museum. Although the museum itself did not open until the Kennedy Administration, the groundwork was laid three decades prior.

The creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 brought about a few complications. Chief among them was the question of what to do with the rare artifacts and archaeological resources found in the construction of the TVA reservoirs. Representatives of TVA, the University of Tennessee, the University of Alabama, and the US National Museum devised a plan excavate the sites, and University of Tennessee archaeologist Thomas M.N. Lewis headed up the Tennessee digs.

Lewis began championing a museum as far back as the 1937. The addition of Madeline Kneberg to his sta in 1938 formed the foundation of the University of Tennessee's Department of Anthropology and gave Lewis an ally in the quest for a museum. Hope came in the form of Judge John and Mrs. Ellen McClung Green in 1955 when they bequest funds for a museum to be built in honor of Mrs. Green's father, Frank. Upon completion of the museum's construction in 1961, Lewis and Kneberg retired. It was decided that all existing artifacts would belong to the 42

“Lewis-Kneberg Collection.” The museum was officially dedicated in 1963 and has since been an integral part of the UT experience.

Jefferson Chapman is the director of McClung Museum and has been with the university since 1975. He believes that the museum offers an experience that should not be passed up and is very passionate about his job.

“It's an exciting area. Like anything, you've got to be devoted to it. If you like objects and appreciate them, there's nothing to beat a good, sound education.”

Chapman believes that the museum is a huge asset to the university as a whole.

“It affords an opportunity for students and faculty to use its resources. Specifically, our mission is to develop an awareness and appreciation of the earth and its peoples Plus our research collections in archaeology, paleobotany, and malacology are among the tops in the world, so we have researchers come from literally all over the world, and we provide a huge data source for our graduate students to prepare for these, dissertations, and the

“As an archaeologist, I think the exhibit that we opened in 2000 on Archaeology and the Native Peoples of Tennessee is great. It's a permanent exhibit. It's a $1.5 million installation really is one of the best exhibits on the subject here in the Eastern US, so we really are proud of that.”

like. As I tell the Chancellor, great universities have great

One of the more appealing aspects of the museum is its diversity.

museums.”

It combines both fine arts and natural history from around the

Chapman has seen hundreds of exhibits come and go through the museum in his time, but his favorite is a permanent exhibit that has been around since 2000.

world and throughout thousands of years of history. You can find everything from ancient Roman artifacts to 20th century European silverware to a fossilized narwhal tusk. The museum even contains what Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam declared earlier 43

go, which meant that a lot of times, kids were getting into trouble or being insanely bored. So personally, I would have loved to have a place where I could tell my parents 'Hey, I am going to the museum.' That's a place where they would have been like 'Yes, you can totally go there by yourself. That's no big deal at all.' I would have personally loved to have had a place that I could go with friends or maybe even gone on a date that wasn't super intimidating and was free. I didn't even have a coffee shop where I grew up.”

Even though she enjoys the promotional aspects of her job, Shteynberg's favorite part of the job is curation.

“To me, it's sort of the bread and butter of museum work. It's creating the exhibits that the public sees, that the students see. this year as the State Artifact of Tennessee, affectionately known as “Sandy.” Sandy is a Native American sandstone statue of a kneeling male figure.

Katherine Shteynberg is a curator and the director of media for the museum. Her main job is helping put together exhibits, but she also handles promotions and tries to draw in an audience.

She thinks that a museum like McClung can provide a good location for teenagers to go and get out of the house for a little while.

“For me, I grew up in a really rural area in Kentucky, and I didn't

It's really exciting to do curatorial work, because basically what you do is you get to sit around all day and research amazing objects and write things. It's sort of like being a sleuth or being a private investigator. You get to find out all these mysteries about a lot of really different, really awesome things.”

One of her favorite pieces in the museum is a narwhal tusk. For the longest time, it was believed that the narwhal tusk was actually a unicorn horn.

“In my mind, that kind of demonstrates how thinking shifted from, say, the 1500s and 1600s and earlier to the nineteenth century

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and even the present day. That was one of the main things people collected in early, early museums. They weren't even called museums back then. They were called 'Cabinets of Curiosity,' and that's what people brought to them: curiosity. That's what museums are still about today.”

Lindsey Waugh, the coordinator of academic programming, is in charge of connecting the museum with the rest of campus. One important aspect of her job is teaching students what exactly to look for when checking out the exhibits.

“It's absolutely important to come into a museum and really look closely at the objects and think about them very clearly before just relying on the label for all of your information. That's a lot of what I do with classes, too. I teach students and faculty the process of looking and really discovering what they already know about the objects and how to ask good questions about the objects. It's often the case that if I'm looking at an object with a class, and we start to analyze the image, they can come up with a lot of the information on their own without even reading the label.

One of her favorite pieces in the museum is a ceramic piece from the Tung dynasty in China. It is a camel with it's tongue stuck out.

“That particular figure is quite interesting because you have this camel, a figure that certainly would have been important for trade and transportation, but then the saddle of the camel has the faces of very typical tomb guardian figures on it, which is less

typical of that kind of combination of the camel and the tomb guardian face.”

For any history, science, and art lovers in around Knoxville, McClung Museum is not to be missed.

Mission Statement: The mission of the McClung Museum is to advance understanding and appreciation of the earth and its peoples through the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and 45

exhibition of objects and data. As a part of the University of Tennessee, the museum works to support academic programs

Gallery 4.1

and provide educational programming.

The museum also participates in implementing the university’s central mission: to cultivate and enrich the human mind and spirit through teaching, scholarship, artistic creation, public service, and professional practice.

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Exhibits Permanent Exhibits Ancient Egypt: The Eternal Voice- Explore the lives, history, religion, and writing of the Ancient Egyptians in this exhibit from antiquity.

Archaeology & The Native Peoples of Tennessee- Study the Native American roots that run deep in Tennessee by using the archaeology left behind by the state's earliest inhabitants.

The Decorative Experience- Take a trip around the world by viewing artifacts from ancient and modern history, taken all corners of the globe.

Edmontosaurus Annectens- It's nearly impossible to miss “Monty,� the duck-billled dinosaur that resides just outside of McClung Museum.

Geology & Fossil History of Tennessee- Take a look at some of the physical earth processes and creatures that used roam the Volunteer State long before it was known as such.

Human Origins: Searching for Our Fossil Ancestors- Catch a glimpse of the evolution of man. We promise it won't take you hundreds of thousands of years to do so.

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The Civil War in Knoxville: The Battle of Fort Sanders- Take in the

27 dierent artists, all inspired by objects from McClung's

local history surrounding one of the most momentous occasions

collections.

in American history, the Civil War. Tennessee Freshwater Mussels- Check out one of the most diverse mussel faunas in North America, right here in Tennessee.

Special Exhibits

Birds, Bugs, & Blooms: Natural History from the 1500s-1800sCheck out this natural history collection that studies the intersection of art and science.

The Flora and Fauna of Catesby, Mason, and Audubon- This art gallery from the 18th and 19th centuries explores the relationship between plants and animals.

Life on the Roman Frontier- When in McClung, you can see what the Romans did by taking a look at these archaeological finds from the Roman Frontier.

Upcoming Exhibit Drawn from the McClung Museum- Beginning January 24, 2015, the museum will display an exhibit featuring original prints from 49

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The Team THE TEAM 1. Tait Rassel 2. Ethan Clawson 3. Jared Dugger, team manager 4. Team name: Three Dudes

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Chapter 5

Promoting literacy through literature

“The University of Tennessee Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature believes that literature is essential to the literacy, learning, social, emotional and aesthetic development of young people.”

Section 1

Literature is essential LIBRARY COLLECTION The Center for Children & Young Adult Literature office and collection is found on the 3rd floor of the library.

As the mission statement says, “…literature is essential” and that is something the Center for Children’s & Young Adult literature, or CCYAL, take quite seriously.

But don’t let this fancy title and articulate mission statement fool you. This is not an organization for pretentious Literature scholars; although the board is full of some of the most brilliant people in Knoxville. This organization is about distant worlds, fantasy lands, imagination, and the love of literature. This is an organization that extends a huge hand to the community of Knoxville to encourage local youth, teachers, librarians and parents to dive into the latest and greatest children’s and young adult literature.

This organization is one that is highly in touch with the community, as well as the booming world of children’s and young adult literature. There is not a book on the shelf of CCYAL that is older than a year and a half. Of course, they still appreciate the classics, and can point any teacher, parents, or librarian in the right direction for the books we all grew up to read and love. However, CCYAL focuses on keeping up to date with the newest literature on the shelves of bookstores. CCYAL doesn’t stop there though; the board is constantly coming up with new ideas to keep this focus on literature a hot topic. There are authors and illustrators making their way to Knoxville frequently to hold conferences, conversation, and ideas on

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what is happening in children’s and young adult literature today.

level of literature. Luckily, that ranges from fiction, non-fiction,

Just one of CCYAL’s main goals is to keep the center relevant,

biographies, and more for the kids to engross themselves in.

and for it to be made known. They do this best with their genuine

Groenke mentioned, “long term we would really like more UT

interest and involvement in the community.

students to get involved in this program. It would be really cool to

The Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature really loves the youth

Dr. Susan Groenke

recruit some football players and other good influences to get involved with the Boys and Girls Club.”

of Knoxville and has a genuine care

Another huge program that CCYAL offers

for their education in today’s

during the summer, and for sure their most

literature. They do a fantastic job in

successful, is the annual Best of the Best

facilitating and creating environments

workshop. During this time, CCYAL comes

for local teachers, librarians, students

together and compiles all the books in the

and parents to stay up to date on

children’s and young adult genre’s that are

today’s important literature for our

most promising that year. Groenke also

youth.

mentioned that they were not specific to just the local elementary and intermediate

Dr. Susan Groenke, head of the center, shared some of the ways in which CCYAL really enjoys getting involved in the community.

Groenke gave some insight to their major summer programs, as well as some events during the busy school year season. “We’re really trying to bridge with the local Boys and Girls Club, specifically the Haslam site,” says Groenke.

Thus far the center has been able to take UT students to the Boys and Girls Club and tutor the kids in their reading and comprehension skills. CCYAL was able to take some of their very own books from their shelves to share with the kids. Therefore the kids were able to get their hands on the latest books in their age

schools, but they like to think of

Dr. Cindy Welch themselves as a k-12 organization. Groenke is a former high school teacher, so young adult literature is her forte. While Dr. Cindy Welch can really relate to more of the children’s side of the spectrum. With these two ladies heading up the organization they are able to team up, and “run the gamut,” as Groenke says.

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Movie 5.1 Intro of a Author Lecture Series

themselves in. Groenke shared the exciting news of the development of a new website that is up and coming for CCYAL. With the new and improved website Groenke gave several examples of how people cannot only donate their time, but financially as well. The best options for a person to donate financially are the teacher fund and book buddy fund. With the teacher fund, a person has the option to support a teacher’s classroom, and buy the allotted amount of books the teacher would need to teach her class. The book buddy fund is the program when UT students go to the local Boys & Girls Club to tutor and encourage students to read. More than anything though Groenke and Welch just want the center to be known. Fortunately,

might admire the specific writer or artist that is lecturing that day.

Welch shared, “ I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced it, but it is

they have several big ideas to launch the center into even more of a successful resource.

really cool when you get to meet the author of a book people really, really liked.” Welch really loves the opportunity that the lecture series provides to educators and students alike. They are able to come and hear from writers and illustrators that they care about, said Welch. It is something that can really encourage students to stay involved in reading and learning when they get to encounter those that they admire. It also makes it easier for teachers to use these authors’ works in their classrooms.

How can you be involved in this astonishing organization? We asked the same thing. It’s easy, Welch and Groenke agree.

“ I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced it, but it is really cool when you get to meet the author of a book people really, really liked.”

Dr. Cindy Welch

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Lecture Series Author -Steve Sheinkin

Movie 5.2 Steve Sheinkin Speech

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Section 2

The Team THE TEAM 1. Heath Mosier 2. Brandon Gloyd 3. Kelsey Bruder 4. Natalie Thomas, team manager 5. Team name: The Beekeepers

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