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Wall Street Journal
26-05-2025
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
How Your Town Can Feel the Weight of the National Debt
City and state borrowing costs edged up this past week when House lawmakers advanced a bill that would increase deficits. With concerns about federal spending pressuring the bond market, here is what to know about how U.S. borrowing may affect your state or local government. Yields crept upward on some long-dated municipal bonds after expectations of increased federal borrowing unsettled the debt market. Some Chicago airport bonds maturing in 2053 traded at 5.15% this week, the highest level since President Trump's tariff's broadside in early April. Yields also increased on bonds that raised money for Texas toll roads and student housing at the University of Tennessee.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Federal grants cut by Trump across University of Tennessee: A full list, valued at $38.69M
Research into vaccines, school shootings, Alzheimer's and mental health have been hobbled by wide-ranging cuts at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville ordered by President Donald Trump. In addition to these cuts, the University of Tennessee System reported an additional 17 grants have been canceled across its campuses for a total of 45. The UT System provided Knox News with a list of those grants, in addition to 16 grants that are active or pending. Prior to most of the cuts, the universities awarded grants had already started spending money on their various federally funded research projects. The lost value across the 45 canceled grants (originally valued at $54.11 million) is $38.69 million. Each grant awarded to UT System schools has one of three funding uses: Institutional (INST): "Grants awarded to higher education institutions to support service of students and improvement of educational outcomes," according to the UT System. Research & Development (R&D): "Grants awarded to support research and development activities to advance scientific knowledge, develop new technologies, or address specific societal needs," according to the UT System. Student Financial Aid (SFA): "Grants providing financial aid for students," according to the UT System. In some cases, a state institution such as the Tennessee Historical Commission received a federal grant and subcontracted UT to help on the project. The grants also are for projects regarding marginalized communities including Black people, folks in the LGBTQ+ community and residents of Appalachia. The UT System provided documents in May listing the number of grants across the system cut by the Trump administration. The list included only how many grants UT campuses had and which federal agency provided them. On May 21, the UT System provided a full list of active, pending and terminated grants across the system with figures for the remaining lost values (or the remaining values for active and pending grants) updated as of March 1. UT's flagship Knoxville campus has 35 grants on the provided list, including these 28 that have been terminated: Grant name Total Grant Value Lost Grant Value Rural Appalachian Mental Health Partnership(Education Department / R&D) $2,478,700 $988,397 Alcohol, minority stress, and intimate partner violence: Temporal and prospective associations in sexual minority young adults(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $1,362,669 $103,730 Inclusive Education Teacher Training(USAID / OTHER) $684,207 $24,906 CAREER: Black and Latinx Parents Leading Reform and Advancing Racial Justice in Elementary Mathematics(National Science Fund / R&D) $579,763 $115,866 STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy(Defense Department / OTHER) $564,397 $113,448 Building Community and Research Engagement among Sexual and Gender Minority Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (National Institutes of Health / R&D) $540,038 $34,578 Epidemiology & Laboratory Capacity State Colleges and Universities(National Institutes of Health / INST) $500,000 $163,874 The Impact of Minority Stress on Alcohol-Related Sexual Assault among Sexual Minority College Students: An intersectional, mixed-methodological study(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $471,105 $453,831 Exploring User-Informed Approaches to Enhancing Library Metadata for the LGBTQ+ Community (Institute of Museum and Library Services / R&D) $393,498 $344,869 COVID-19 Prevention and Vaccine Promotion(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $332,009 $119,711 Collaborative Research: The Angry Crowd Bias: Social, Cognitive, and Perceptual Mechanisms(National Science Fund / R&D) $272,286 $42,300 Collaborative Research: Inclusive Science is Better Science: The Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) Program(National Science Fund / R&D) $197,978 $120,297 STEM Graduate Pathways for Marginalized Groups: A Critical Meta-Analysis of Preparation, Enrollment, and Completion Research(National Science Fund / R&D) $190,484 $67,190 SCC-PG: Equitable and Ubiquitous Converged Data & Transportation Services for Underserved Communities (National Science Fund / R&D) $150,000 $2 Measures for Sexual and Gender Minority Caregivers of People with ADRD(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $142,284 $29,438 End-to-End Graph-Agnostic Real-time Evacuation Routing to protect Soft Targets during Active-Shooter Scenarios (Homeland Security / R&D) $129,999 $73,757 COVID Disparities Project - Year 3(North Dakota Health Department / R&D) $123,775 $70,339 Transfer Advocacy Groups (TAG): Transforming Culture to Support Transfer Students of Color in Undergraduate Physics(National Science Fund / R&D) $106,072 $44,728 EXCITE: Extension Collaborative on Immunization, Teaching & Engagement(Agriculture Department / R&D) $100,000 $71,460 Planning: Southeast Center for Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Ecosystems(National Science Fund / R&D) $100,000 $33,121 The Alliance of Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and Intersectionality for Inclusion, Networking, and Transition Opportunities in STEM(National Science Fund / R&D) $97,718 $26,398 EAGER: Combatting disinformation and racial bias: A deep-learning-assisted investigation of temporal dynamics of disinformation(National Science Fund / R&D) $70,295 $2,194 U.S.-Japan Exchange Program for Green Growth Collaboration through Clean Energy Technologies (State Department / OTHER) $70,000 $6,466 Disinformation in the Illustrated Observer, 1926-1945(National Endowment for the Humanities / R&D) $60,000 $20,000 Examining Proximal Associations Between Minority Stress, PTSD Symptoms, and Alcohol Use among Bi+ College Students with Trauma Histories(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $48,974 $32,901 Comprehensive Modeling of Cultural Transformations in Response to Shocks and Hazards Associated with Climate(Defense Department / R&D) $48,974 $10,680 The Mountains Seemed Empty, but I Knew They Weren't Elevating Appalachian Voices in Library Collections(Institute of Museum and Library Services / R&D) $27,877 $27,877 Black Women of Print Exhibition & Programming(Humanities TN / R&D) $8,905 $7,688 Seven federal grants are still active or pending at UT: Grant Name(Source / Use) Total Grant Value(Remaining) Status Integrated Three-level GaN Inverter and PMsyn RM Motor for Electric Passenger Vehicles and Medium/heavy duty Trucks(Energy Department / R&D) $1,530,686($1,041,889) Active Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Measurement Investigation Science Mission Phase(NASA / R&D) $1,475,557($26,312) Active Global Sports Mentoring Program(State Department / OTHER) $1,140,000($1,140,000) Pending Development of Low-Density Fe-Mn-Al Multi-PrincipalElement Alloys for Lightweighting Automobile StructuralComponents(Energy Department / R&D) $334,280($259,410) Active Hosting the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center(Interior Department / R&D) $197,195($160,813) Active The Papers of Andrew Jackson(National Archives / R&D) $125,000($48,862) Pending The Papers of Andrew Jackson(TN Historical Commission / R&D) $3,190($3,190) Pending Grant Name (Source / Use) Total Grant Value Lost Grant Value Climate Smart Grasslands - the Root of Agricultural CarbonMarkets(Agriculture Department / R&D) $30,000,000 $26,813,141 Farmer-to-Farmer Program Southeast Asia(USAID / R&D) $4,999,943 $4,130,835 Tennessee Extension Vaccine Education & Outreach Project(Centers for Disease Control / R&D) $1,415,187 $12,648 Exploring Opportunities for Tennessee Department ofAgriculture to Prepare to Implement FDA Rule: Standardsfor the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, & Holding of Producefor Human Consumption(Food and Drug Administration / R&D) $552,359 $108,292 Providing an Overview of Food Safety Standards andRegulations Through A Classroom and Experiential LearningProgram for Fellows from Multiple Agricultural Sectors(Agriculture Department / R&D) $137,498 $6,714 FlorestaDB: mobile and web apps for forest samplecollection(Agriculture Department / R&D) $53,075 $34,508 2025 Tennessee Pesticide Safety Education Program(Environmental Protection Agency / OTHER) $31,225 $31,225 STEM Education and Apprenticeship Liaison (SEAL) for Navy(Defense Department / OTHER) $10,573 $8,314 The UT Institute of Agriculture has five grants active or pending: Grant name (Source / Use) Total Grant Value(Remaining) Grant Status PClimate Smart Fiber Hemp: A Versatile Thread Connectingthe Nation's Underserved Farmers, Climate ChangeMitigation and Novel Market Opportunities(Agriculture Department / R&D) $1,303,307($1,146,041) Active From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generationof Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals(Agriculture Department / OTHER) $310,685($237,431) Active Excellence in Research: Mechanistic Modelling andValidation Approaches to Decontaminate (+) ssRNA virusesusing Ultraviolet Technologies(National Science Fund / R&D) $100,000($89,891) Active Examining Visitor Spatial and Temporal Distribution at FortSumter National Historic Site(Interior Department / R&D) $92,594($23,006) Active 2024-2029 Southern Appalachian Mountains CESUCooperative and Joint Venture Agreement(Interior Department / R&D) No amount given Pending Grant Name (Source / Use) Total Grant Value(Remaining) Lost Grant Value UTC: National Initiative to Address COVID-19 Health DisparitiesAmong Populations at High-Risk and Underserved,Including Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations and RuralCommunities(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $2,489,989 $990,259 UTHSC: Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease RelatedDementias in Prediabetes and Type 2 Diabetes: TheDiabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study AD/ADRDProject(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $1,515,527 $1,336,956 UTHSC: Identifying multilevel facilitators of care outcomes amongPositive Deviants to design an intervention for Black sexualminority men living with HIV(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $1,226,945 $1,226,945 UTIPS: COPS Office Cooperative Agreement 15JCOPS-23-GK-02(Justice Department / R&D) $698,802 $419,107 UTC: Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Prevention andControl of Emerging Infectious Diseases(National Institutes of Health / INST) $500,000 $65,550 UTC: Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing forInfectious Disease Research(National Institutes of Health / R&D) $331,246 $199,600 UTC: Implementing a Humanities-Informed EnvironmentalStudies Major at the University of Tennessee atChattanooga(National Endowment for the Humanities / R&D) $149,957 $128,157 UTHSC: Study to understand how medical implantation alters localand/or systemic immune response relative to implantedmetal-alloy devices(Food and Drug Administration / R&D) $149,859 $28,200 UTHSC: Tennessee Health Disparities Initiative(Centers for Disease Control / R&D) Not listed Not listed Other UT System campuses have four active or pending federal grants: Grant Name (Source / Use) Total Grant Value (Remaining) Status UTC: First principles multiphase modeling of mesoscale gastransport in porous reactive systems(Energy Department / R&D) $562,497($237,650) Active UTC: CONTRACT and PROPOSAL: 2020 SCALE Consortium -Radiation-Hard Microelectronics Workforce DevelopmentConsortium(National Institutes for Health / R&D) $499,071(Not listed) Active UTHSC: EXCITE: Extension Collaborative on Immunization, Teaching& Engagement(Agriculture Department / R&D) $100,000($82,000) Pending UTM: Agricultural Communications Capacity-Building throughCurriculum Development, Collaboration, and ArtificialIntelligence(Agriculture Department / INST) $75,000($62,245) Pending Keenan Thomas reports for the Knox News business growth and development team. You can reach him by email at Support strong local journalism and unlock premium perks at This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: List of $38.69M in grants cut by Trump across University of Tennessee
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Going to University of Tennessee graduations? Avoiding campus? Schedule, parking, bag info
It's one of the busiest times of year for the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, as students prepare to graduate after final exams under a new commencement schedule that consolidates ceremonies and shortens the weekend. This big change to graduations, happening May 15-17, was implemented to accommodate growing enrollment and retention, as well as the addition of new colleges over the past five years. Additionally, UT's two biggest colleges − the College of Arts and Sciences and the Haslam College of Business – continue to award a majority of the degrees UT bestows to students each year. This is the first year UT has changed commencement to a format that will see multiple colleges graduating together instead of individual events, while the two biggest colleges are splitting up students into different ceremonies. 'While predicting exact numbers isn't possible, (the university's special events team) used historical data to project similar ceremony sizes, aiming to balance across all ceremonies the experience for graduates and their guests," UT spokesperson Tyra Haag told Knox News. "After this year, the events team will evaluate whether this reimagined model supports continued growth while preserving the quality of the celebrations.' So, don your best business casual and learn what you should know about spring 2025 commencement ceremonies at UT. Number of ceremonies: Eight Location: Unless otherwise noted, Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center, 1600 Phillip Fulmer Drive. Capacity: Around 14,000 seats for guests. Doors open: One hour before each ceremony. Projected length: Two to two-and-a-half hours for each ceremony. The times for speakers will be shortened to keep the focus on students, Haag said. Student check-in: No later than 30 minutes before the start of the ceremony. Number of graduates: Three of the ceremonies are projected to have more than 1,400 students attending. UT calculates each student invites about eight guests. Access: Tickets are not required, and there's limit on how many guests can attend. Seating: First-come, first-served. Thursday, May 15 10 a.m. - College of Law graduating Doctor of Jurisprudence and Master of Legal Studies students (Student Union Auditorium) 4 p.m. - Doctoral Hooding for all Ph.D. programs. Doctor of Education, Doctor of Engineering, Doctor of Nursing Practice and Doctor of Social Work degrees Friday, May 16 9:30 a.m. - Comparative and Experimental Medicine graduates, the Herbert College of Agriculture and several concentrations in the Haslam College of Business (Accounting, Finance, Heath Integrated Business and Engineering Programs, Supply Chain Management, Master of Business Administration and Smith Global Leadership Scholars) 1:30 p.m. - College of Communication and Information, with several concentrations in the Haslam College of Business (Business Analytics, Economics, Human Resource Management, Management, Marketing, Public Administration and Statistics) Saturday, May 17 9:30 a.m. - The College of Nursing and two divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences (the Division of Arts and Humanities and the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics) 11:30 a.m. - College of Veterinary Medicine (Cox Auditorium in the Alumni Memorial Building) 1:30 p.m. - Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs; Bredesen Center; College of Architecture and Design; College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences; College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies; College of Social Work; Life Sciences; and the Natalie L. Haslam College of Music. 5:30 p.m. - The Tickle College of Engineering and the Division of Social Services in the College of Arts and Sciences. Parking is free for graduating students and guests in non-commuter and commuter core parking lots, as well as in garages across campus. UT recommends carpooling and leaving early to avoid traffic delays. UT recommends four main parking areas near the arena: G-10 garage: Located near the arena and Neyland Stadium, G-10 can be accessed via the Neyland Drive entrance. The top level is reserved for accessible and mobility-limited guests. Commuter Core 6 parking lot: Use Lake Loudoun Boulevard to enter this lot, just across from the arena. G-5 garage: Located below the Commuter Core 6 lot, this garage also connects to the arena. G-16 garage: This garage, located on Volunteer Boulevard near the Rock, can be accessed via Pat Head Summitt Street. For guests of the College of Veterinary Medicine graduation, UT recommends parking in the Volunteer Hall garage or in Staff Lot 9 across from Neyland Stadium. The Commuter Core 4 parking lot on the agriculture portion of campus has additional accessible parking and a free shuttle to the arena. If parking is full on campus, the Knoxville Civic Coliseum parking garage also will provide parking and a shuttle running 7 a.m.-5 p.m., dropping off guests off at the intersection of Chamique Holdsclaw Drive and Lake Loudoun Boulevard. Campus employees will be working on Thursday and Friday, so be mindful and avoid parking in staff lots. Construction also will be happening on campus, primarily on Phillip Fulmer Way. Students and guests should bring as little as possible for quick entry into the area. Security screenings will be in place at each entrance on the concourse level. A clear bag policy will be in effect, meaning guests can bring one clear plastic bag no larger than 12x6x12 inches. Guests can also bring a small clutch purse 4.5x6.5 inches or smaller, which applies to wallets too. No other bags are allowed, and all items are subject to a search. Medically necessary items also will be searched, and diaper bags do not count as a medically necessary item. What about cameras? Guests are allowed to bring personal cameras with detachable lenses smaller than 5 inches. Professional cameras and lenses longer than five inches are not allowed. What about gifts? Guests can bring flowers and unwrapped gifts. Wrapped gifts, signs and balloons are not allowed inside. UT sells flowers in the arena for graduates. What about alcohol and tobacco? Alcohol won't be sold or allowed inside the arena. Smoking, including e-cigarettes, is not allowed inside UT buildings, outside on campus or in private cars parked on UT property. Can't make graduation? UT provides livestreams of each graduation, which also can be viewed after ceremonies conclude at Keenan Thomas reports for the Knox News business growth and development team. You can reach him by email at Support strong local journalism and unlock premium perks at This article originally appeared on Knoxville News Sentinel: Going to University of Tennessee graduation? Times, parking, bag info
