Giving

Photos courtesy of Tennessee Athletics Trey Smith, honorary recipient of the Jim and Natalie Haslam Athletic Scholarship and the Phillip Fulmer Award for Excellence Scholarship, has chosen UT over the NFL draft in 2020. Make a Gift In the 2020 TaxSlayer Bowl, 6-foot-6, 325-pound junior Trey Smith played an important role in helping UT’s offense … Read more

Lauren Reed, Communications and Media Studies major and ASL minor, is a recipient of the Thomas D. Dunlap, Judy Flanagan, Volunteer, and Jeanne Barkley Scholarships. Make a Gift Lauren Reed became conversationally fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) after spending time in the classroom of her mother, Lori Reed, who teaches deaf children at Eakin … Read more

Michael Mason is conducting substance-use research with the Betsey Bush Endowed Professorship. Make a Gift Professor Michael Mason’s idea for communicating with 18 to 25 year olds with identified cannabis-use disorders is to text them—not to berate them but to ask questions, such as, “How is it going today?,” and “Who are you interacting with … Read more

Bob Andrews’ Judaic Studies and Haslam College of Business scholarship endowments provide opportunities for students and honor the memory of his parents and family. Make a Gift “Once a West Ender, always a West Ender,” says Bob Andrews (’72), remembering his Boston childhood. “It was a close neighborhood—multiethnic, everybody got along with everybody else. Everybody … Read more

Max Waibel was a recipient of a fellowship and scholarships from the Haslam and Stokely family funds. Make a Gift Transportation and logistics have been on Max Waibel’s (’14, ’19) mind for as long as he can remember. Though he started out on the water during high school, working for a tugboat company that assists … Read more

UT received contributions from 6,471 individuals, families, and organizations. Chancellor Donde Plowman is energized and appreciative of the outpouring of support from across Tennessee and around the world. Final numbers are in, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, exceeded its Big Orange Give goal and set a new record, raising $2.55 million in just 24 … Read more

Vanessa Gonzalez, Master’s Student in Recreation and Sport Management, is the fifth recipient of the Joan Cronan Lady Vol Graduate Fellowship. Make a Gift In her four years as an undergraduate, Vanessa Gonzalez had her ups and downs. “Coming from Torrance, California, to play softball at Virginia Tech, I was homesick at times,” she says. … Read more

Alyssa Andreno, attends UT and is the 2019-20 honorary recipient of the Dr. Sharon B. Lord Women’s Athletic Leadership Scholarship. Make a Gift Growing up in Stafford, Virginia, senior Alyssa Andreno says, “I never had a dream school until I visited UT. I fell absolutely in love with it—the coaches, the university, the girls on … Read more

Stevenson Volny, Business Analytics Major, is a recipient of the UT Working Student Assistant Award. Make a Gift Two years after the massive earthquake in Haiti, Stevenson Volny and three of his siblings left their home in Port-Au-Prince, where schools had not yet reopened, to join their father, Edva Volny, who had been working as … Read more

Rana Abudayyeh is the first recipient of the new Professorship of Interior Architecture. Make a Gift As regional managing principal of Gensler, the world’s top-ranked architecture and design firm, Robin Klehr Avia (’76) has given back to the College of Architecture and Design in many ways over the years, including the endowments she created in … Read more