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Paul Shire has been with Sun Electric for 19 years. The longtime electrician and field superintendent for the local company knows the business. He recognizes the shift toward solar electricity and has taken action to respond to the growing demand. ...

While most people were making plans for how to ring in 2010, Dr. Aaron Astor was looking ahead to 2011. In 2011, Astor, assistant professor of history at Maryville College, will participate in numerous events commemorating the 150th anniversary of ...

A representative of the group Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment, or SOCM, will speak Tuesday, March 2, at the Division Street Campus of Pellissippi State Community College. Ann League has been an active supporter of SOCM for many years.

More than 230 students from Heritage Middle School got the opportunity to spend a day working at various businesses, agencies and government offices throughout the community. They didn’t earn paychecks for their efforts, but they got some on-the-job training in ...

Maryville College has been chosen to be the administrator of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant valued at $440,000 over three years. According to Dr. Jennifer Brigati, assistant professor of biology and one of the principal investigators of the grant, ...

“Many Faiths, One World,” Maryville College’s Community Conversations Series focused on interfaith dialogue, continues this month with Dr. Andrew Irvine, assistant professor of philosophy, presenting “From Dogmatism to Discovery: Personal and Theological Reflections on Religious Pluralism.” Irvine’s presentation, which is ...

Kirsten Sheppard, director of international education at Maryville College’s Center for International Education, recently attended a seminar for international administrators, held in Stuttgart, Germany.

Pellissippi State Community College is offering new courses that will appeal to a wide range of interests. Whether a student is interested in debt management, dancing or the secrets of handwriting analysis, the new courses offer non-credit opportunities to learn ...

Last summer Dr. Tom Bogart and his family from Pennsylvania vacationed in Tennessee. This summer, they will become permanent residents. The 46-year-old Bogart has been selected and has accepted the position of president of Maryville College. He will begin his ...

The Maryville College Preparatory Piano Program will be moving into the new Clayton Center for the Arts in January 2010. With more studio space, plans are underway to expand the current piano program and, possibly, include instruction on other instruments ...

Rush B. “Rusty” Winchester was recently named director of discernment in Maryville College’s Center for Calling & Career (CC&C). He began his duties at the College Dec. 7. Winchester holds a doctorate degree in child and family studies and a ...

Fishing is the most popular outdoor activity in the U.S., and nearly six million people participated in fly-fishing in 2008, according to the Outdoor Foundation. Learn firsthand why fly-fishing is an increasingly popular sport. Enroll in Fly-Fishing 101, a one-day ...

When a colleague asked last summer what his favorite scripture was, Bill Brewer, associate professor of Music at Pellissippi State Community College, had an immediate answer: Isaiah 40:31. He had no idea why she wanted to know.

When news broke of the destruction and despair following the earthquake in Haiti, Preston Fields’ email lit up. Not from national news agencies but from students with a desire to serve. “About as soon as the earthquake happened, I was ...

Amy King, a Pellissippi State Community College student, has received a scholarship from the Women’s Economic Council Foundation. King was presented with a $1,000 award at the 2009 Economic Summit for Women, hosted by the Tennessee Economic Council on Women ...