College of Arts & Sciences at Tennessee Tech University

College of Arts & Sciences at Tennessee Tech University Tennessee Tech University's College of Arts and Science includes nine departments offering 12 bachel

Twelve students and two faculty members from the Department of Earth Sciences recently completed an unforgettable field ...
06/01/2026

Twelve students and two faculty members from the Department of Earth Sciences recently completed an unforgettable field trip across Arizona as part of a class. During the class, students explored iconic geologic sites including the Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater, Petrified Forest National Park, and the San Francisco Volcanic Field. The experience provided hands-on opportunities to study volcanism, planetary geology, stratigraphy, paleontology , geoarcheaology, and Earth history while building lasting memories. This trip was generously supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Earth Sciences.

Congratulations to our graduates! We are so proud of you and can't wait to see what you do next. Best of luck with futur...
05/08/2026

Congratulations to our graduates! We are so proud of you and can't wait to see what you do next. Best of luck with future endeavors.

Happy last day of class and good luck with your finals!
05/01/2026

Happy last day of class and good luck with your finals!

Tennessee Tech History Student, Scott Moss got to go talk to Parkview Elementary School 4th graders about the Declaratio...
04/20/2026

Tennessee Tech History Student, Scott Moss got to go talk to Parkview Elementary School 4th graders about the Declaration of Independence and they were fascinated and full of questions. We may have some future history majors on our hands!

Dr. Kent Dollar took 8 students from his Civil War class to Franklin, Tennessee, on April 17th to visit the Carnton Plan...
04/20/2026

Dr. Kent Dollar took 8 students from his Civil War class to Franklin, Tennessee, on April 17th to visit the Carnton Plantation and the Carter House. Franklin was the site of a major Civil War battle in November 1864. Both the Carnton Plantation and the Carter House existed at the time of the battle and survived. Carnton was used as a Confederate hospital, and the wood floors still show bloodstains from wounded soldiers. The students really enjoyed seeing those. The Carter House was at the center of the failed Confederate assault, and student enjoyed viewing the house itself, the adjacent office, and smoke house, which still bear bullet holes from the battle. Students also went to the Confederate graveyard at Carnton. None of the students had been to Franklin before and thoroughly enjoyed the experience—as well as the pizzas from Mellow Mushroom in Franklin!

Tennessee Tech Arts and Sciences held our annual Honors Night last night to honor our student awardees for departmental ...
04/16/2026

Tennessee Tech Arts and Sciences held our annual Honors Night last night to honor our student awardees for departmental scholarships. There were 112 awardees in all for these outstanding students.

Congratulations to Tennessee Tech’s four Southern Literary Festival Competition winners, Ainslee Davenport, Katie Nelson...
04/16/2026

Congratulations to Tennessee Tech’s four Southern Literary Festival Competition winners, Ainslee Davenport, Katie Nelson, Hailey Winningham, and Sarah Keen. These undergraduate students represented Tennessee Tech at the 2026 Southern Literary Festival Competition, held at UT Chattanooga April 9-11, 2026. Winners traveled to the conference with creative writing professor Dr. Ted Pelton.

These writers’ work was featured in the festival's print anthology. At the festival itself, the students accepted their monetary awards and read their essays and stories. An ELEVATE XP Travel Grant funded the students' travel.

Ainslee Davenport won second place in fiction for “Free for the Taking.”
Katie Nelson won third place in formal essay for “The Intersection of Race and Sexuality in Punch me up to the Gods.”
Hailey Winningham won second place in creative nonfiction for “But Mary Couldn’t Read.”
Sarah Keen won third place in creative nonfiction for “Just, the Adverb.”

Congrats to our Tennessee Tech student writers for producing some of the very best work in our region’s creative writing programs!

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Shelley Brown and Michael Olsen receive College of Arts & Sciences Award for Innovative Teaching.Shelley Brown of the De...
04/16/2026

Shelley Brown and Michael Olsen receive College of Arts & Sciences Award for Innovative Teaching.
Shelley Brown of the Department of Sociology and Political Science and Michael Olsen of the Department of Foreign Languages are recipients of the 2025-2026 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Innovative Teaching. This award recognizes a recent significant innovation in undergraduate teaching. Professor Brown is recognized for integrating ePortfolios into internship courses, AI Fact Check assignments into introductory sociology, and a real-world theory application project titled Theory in the Wild. Dr. Olsen is recognized for the development and implementation of a hybrid Latin American Culture and Civilization course (SPAN 2550) that explores the culture and cultural influence of Latin America through music.

Shawn Zeringue-Krosnick receives the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Scholarly ActivityShawn Zeringu...
04/16/2026

Shawn Zeringue-Krosnick receives the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Research and Scholarly Activity
Shawn Zeringue-Krosnick of the Department of Biology is the recipient of the 2025-2026 College of Arts & Sciences Award for Research and Scholarly Activity. This award recognizes a significant research publication or creative project appearing during the previous two years and receiving expert critical review. The award recognizes Dr. Zeringue-Krosnick’s joint work with Dr. Kelly Moore of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction to increase student knowledge and appreciation of plants and to immerse students in the use of herbaria as a resource of information about the natural world. Their work led to a paper in Plants People Planet.

Tony Lamantia, a senior pursuing a double major in Geoscience and Computer Science, is the recipient of the 2026 Kurt Ei...
04/16/2026

Tony Lamantia, a senior pursuing a double major in Geoscience and Computer Science, is the recipient of the 2026 Kurt Eisen Excellence in Liberal Arts Award. This is the highest student award given by the College of Arts and Sciences. In her award nomination letter, Dr. Jeannette Luna wrote that Tony, “is an exceptional student with a bright future as a creative thinker at the intersections of geoscience, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and computer science.” Tony is recognized for completing a detailed geologic map of a lunar landing site, designing a project and leading a small team to map more than 90,000 boulders around the lunar south pole, and participating in a geospatial project mapping invasive rhododendron on the Isle of Raasay, Scotland. His work will result in two publications on which he is lead author.

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