May 2026
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Gaining a Global Perspective
How the Academy for Global Scholars and Peace Corps Prep Shaped One UT Graduate’s Future Yanet Ramirez Perez’s global journey at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, began before she set foot on campus and will continue beyond graduation as she travels to Peru with the Peace Corps. Ramirez was selected to take part in the Academy…
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First 2+2 Cohort Set to Graduate
Among the spring graduates for the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a group of four that will walk away with degrees from two universities. Tianyi Chen, Shiyi Du, Weiqi Li, and Yuchen Yang are wrapping up their undergraduate degree from Tombras School of Advertising & Public Relations in the College of Communication and Information (CCI) after starting their academic careers at Liaoning University (LNU) in Shenyang, China. The students’ journey…
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Global project grows beyond classroom
Two second-year, Political Science students, Nicholas Heisig and Nathan Surdej, turned a final class project into a weekly podcast and the future trip of a lifetime. Heisig and Surdej met in a comparative politics class last year. For the final project they put together a 40-minue podcast comparing Botswana’s governmental success to lower functioning governments in the surrounding areas of southern Africa. They decided to continue discussing local and global politics in a podcast format and created Signal Vs Noise. Signal Vs Noise is a podcast where Heisig and Surdej break…