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Pellissippi State Community College will offer a new scholarship -- the American Association of University Women of Knoxville Scholarship Fund -- for females who are at least 25 years old. To be considered, applicants must demonstrate a financial need, have ...

Maryville College student Katherine Nadler is spending the summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) conducting research that could aid the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in detecting vaporized explosives. Nadler, a rising junior from Greensboro, N.C., who is majoring ...

College graduate, has received a $22,000 academic scholarship to attend Tennessee Wesleyan College. Henderson graduated magna cum laude with an Associate of Science degree from Pellissippi State. She was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, an international honor society for ...

Maryville College has teamed up with Marriott Business Services in a new partnership that will strengthen the accounting minor at Maryville College and provide more opportunities for accounting. Starting in Spring 2011, Marriott Business Services will sponsor a new advanced ...

Green job training, campus recycling initiatives and sustainable building practices at the new Blount County Campus have garnered Pellissippi State Community College a 2010 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award. Gov. Phil Bredesen and Jim Fyke, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of ...

The Marketing and Communications Office of Pellissippi State Community College was recognized recently with eight awards for excellence in public relations. Two of the awards were gold, five were silver and one was bronze. The recognition was bestowed by the ...

The ultimate goal of Unite for Sight’s GH/Innovate Global Health and Innovation Conferences is to improve the sight of millions of people all over the world, but for five Maryville College students, the 2010 conference served to improve their vision ...

Students who attend Pellissippi State Community College will soon see a plaque bearing the name of Home Federal Bank when they enter one of the classrooms in the Ned R. McWherter Technology Building on the Pellissippi Campus. The third-floor room ...

Imagine the delight of elementary school students when they realize that one of their lessons for the day involves hot air balloons inflated at their school. It’s a scene that took place last September at A. L. Lotts Elementary School ...

Hands-on experience is always best, says Lisa Bogaty, who teaches in Business Administration at Pellissippi State Community College. And in that spirit, she gives her advertising students a chance to help a real-life “client” every year. When Pellissippi State’s Business ...

In a recent gathering at Maryville College’s House in the Woods, students were given some valuable advice. “How It Works,” a program sponsored by the College’s Initiative on Vocation and funded through Lilly Endowment Inc., pairs select students with role ...

“Every bit of education benefits the entire community,” said Marty Black, a Maryville native who, along with husband David, has been a long-time supporter of education in the area. “Education is the single most important asset. With education comes good ...

For the second consecutive year, the Pellissippi State Hot Air Balloon Festival has been designated by the Southeast Tourism Society as one of the “Top 20 Events in the Southeast.” It is the only Knoxville-based event to receive the recognition ...

Several Maryville College students are not having the typical summer job experience in the typical summer job environment, thanks to funding from the Summer Lilly Internship Program (SLIP). Some interns have already boarded planes for service-learning opportunities in far-away places ...

More than 100 volunteers were on campus at Maryville College this past week doing landscaping and minor carpentry and masonry work. It was all part of the 14th annual Kin Takahashi Week. More than 450 projects have been completed since ...