UTHSC Medicine & Campus news
- Collections Preserve the History of Medicine in the Region Chapter 5 of “The American Plague,” the acclaimed 2006 book about the yellow fever epidemic that decimated Memphis in the 1870s, details the life, work, and death of Dr. William James […]
- There is a version of the artificial intelligence story that everyone has heard by now: the billion-dollar campuses, the coastal cities competing for the next great tech company. Memphis, Tennessee, does not fit that story. And that, it turns out, […]
- When Michio Kurosu, PhD, returned to Memphis after completing his Fulbright appointment in Egypt, he brought home more than memories of a year abroad. As the first U.S. Fulbright Scholar to reside in Sinai, Egypt, where he served his appointment […]
- By 7 a.m. on the fourth Saturday of each month, the parking lot across from St. Patrick Catholic Church is already moving. Volunteers line up pallets, a DJ sets up speakers and cars begin turning onto Martin Luther King Avenue […]
- Dr. Sara Day developed a passion for the care of patients with sickle cell disease when she was a young nurse at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She has transformed that passion into education, garnering nearly $900,000 in grant funding […]
- Kelly Davis, executive director of development for the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences, is one of six University of Tennessee Foundation, Inc. (UTFI) employees honored with a 2026 UT Foundation President’s Award. Davis received the […]
- When Dee and Jamie Evans talk about their daughter, Stacey Lane Evans, MD, they don’t begin with personal accolades or professional titles. They start with the constants of who Stacey was as a person and as a physician. Quietly principled. […]
- The National Cancer Institute has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Sciences a $2.65 million K12 grant to launch a Career Development Program in Clinical Oncology, a five-year initiative that will train early-career physicians to become independent clinical cancer researchers. […]