The Sick Leave Bank (SLB) was created to help employees who have exhausted all personal accrued leave an opportunity to protect their income due to a personal illness or injury. Members may receive up to 90 days of sick leave bank hours per year. SLB members must be on approved Family and Medical Leave. Requests… Read More
Research Office Hours will occur the last Friday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 pm in the 910 Madison Building, Suite 608. No appointment needed. If you have a research or other group that would like to have someone from the Office of Research join a meeting to discuss the impact of federal changes on research activities… Read More
Stephen Alway, PhD, has dedicated his career to unraveling the mysteries of sarcopenia, the age-related degeneration of muscle mass and strength. A professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and the Department of Physiology, and the director of the Center for Muscle, Metabolism, and Neuropathology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, his work has become… Read More
The Office of Communications and Marketing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center earned three awards, including a first-place honor and a Best in Show nomination, at the 2025 Tennessee College Public Relations Association (TCPRA) conference. Held May 21–23 in Chattanooga, the annual event brought together communications professionals from public and private colleges and universities across… Read More
The Department of Physiology is Pleased to Announce Dr. Chi-Lun Chang, PhD Assistant Professor Cell and Molecular Biology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Will Present His Seminar Titled: “The Logistics of Fat: interrogating lipid droplet-organelle communication” TODAY! MAY 29th – 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM Cancer Research Building Auditorium 19 S. Manassas St, Room 114… Read More
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center now offers an Occupational Therapy Doctorate (OTD) degree in addition to the Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) degree it has traditionally offered. The OTD program was recently approved by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. The first cohort is set to start in August. Read more on the UT… Read More
The All of Us Researcher Workbench is an online repository housing deidentified data about over 600,000 participants in the NIH’s All of Us program. The dataset includes medical conditions, drug exposures, laboratory results, short-read whole genome sequences, and other data points. The UT Health Science Center has an existing data use agreement with the All… Read More
UT Verse AI Assistant has several helpful tools to assist with many language and translation tasks, making it useful for communicating in different languages. It supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, and more. The assistant can also switch between languages during conversations. Different ways UT Verse can translate: Chats (AI and… Read More
