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Because Vols Help Vols.
By supporting the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, you are changing lives. Your generosity ensures hardworking Volunteers are able to achieve their dreams. Your support creates a better future for our Volunteer community through exceptional student experiences, access to expert faculty, top-ranked academic programs, and enhanced learning environments.
We are grateful for your thoughtful demonstration of the Volunteer spirit.
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UT’s Big Orange Give Breaks Record with $2-55 Million Received
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 …
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Nurturing Careers in Athletic Administration
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. …
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Using Her Platform As an Athlete
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 …
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From Haiti to Data Analytics
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 …
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Committed to Innovative Design
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 …
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‘I Want to Perform’
Bailye Hendley, is a recipient of the Walter and Hannah McDaniel Band Scholarship and Alvin and Sally Beaman Scholarship. Make a Gift Bailye Hendley started playing French horn in sixth grade in Jackson County, Georgia, “but I don’t think I realized at that time that it was what I wanted to do. It was in …
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Scholarships Help Young Mom Land Big-Four Accounting Job
Because of scholarships, Larisa Morace was able to study abroad and just received a job offer following graduation. Make a Gift By her junior year, Larisa Morace knew nursing was not for her. What she didn’t know was that she’d eventually receive a job offer from PricewaterhouseCoopers in Nashville, even before graduating from the Master …
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Studying a Core Sample from the Moon
Molly McCanta, Gerald D. Sisk Associate Professor of Petrology and Planetary Geoscience, will work with students to open NASA core samples from Apollo 17 that have been sealed since 1972. Make a Gift Molly McCanta, who grew up in Seattle, decided to be a geologist when she visited her grandparents in Eastern Washington after the …
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Funding Travel to Competitions
Mickayla Stogsdill (’19), executive president of the UT Speech and Debate Society, has led UT to a #1 position nationwide with the help of VOLstarter and other private support. Make a Gift As executive president of the Tennessee Speech and Debate Society, Mickayla Stogsdill (’19) coached her teammates to five individual national championships, three team …
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