The grant was awarded by the US Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs and totals $1.25 million over five years.

Dr. Jason DeVito, a mathematics and physics professor, is studying how the universe is shaped in his project “RUI: Quotient Spaces and the Double-Soul Conjecture.”

The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning has given its endorsement to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing simulation program. This is the first step toward accreditation for the program.

The new American Sign Language courses at Tennessee Tech are available to high school students and will satisfy foreign language requirements for both high school credits and college credits.

The grant, which is in the amount of $12,000, will help develop a capstone course through the Center for Vocational Discovery.

The Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Program begins this summer and aims to help instructors learn how to educate future nurses.

The Knox Regional Health Science Education Center will house health sciences classes for both Roane State Community College and Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT) Knoxville.

Cane Ridge High School is the latest school to partner with Nashville State Community College for an early college program. The program first launched at Whites Creek High School; the Glencliff High School early college program is also starting this year.

The university plans to begin accepting students into the future College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2027.

The new program is a five-year dual-degree program that will give students two bachelor degrees: one in Physics from Wittenberg and one in Engineering from Indiana Tech.