VOLUME ONE • ISSUE ONE RAISING ENGINEERING The Demand Grows for UTC Grads The Magazine of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | A University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine volume one, issue one • October 2017 utc.edu/magazine INSIDE THIS ISSUE 4 Message from the Chancellor 5 Raising Engineering 9 Olga De Klein 10 Nurse in Alaska 12 Teachers Extraordinaire 14 Fake News Explained 16 Mental Health Court 18 Yesteryear and Now 20 View from Vision Labs 22 UTC Theatre 25 Reese Veltenaar 26 Headed for Stardom 29 Alum News ’n Notes 33 Valediction 34 Notabilis: Bucky Wolford EDITOR George Heddleston Vice Chancellor, Communications and Marketing ASSISTANT EDITOR Chuck Cantrell Associate Vice Chancellor, Communications and Marketing CREATIVE DIRECTOR Stephen Rumbaugh WRITERS Laura Bond, Chuck Cantrell, Sarah Joyner, Shawn Ryan CONTRIBUTING WRITER Chuck Wasserstrom PHOTOGRAPHER Angela Foster CONTRIBUTING Dominique Belanger, Adam Brimer, PHOTOGRAPHERS Esther Pederson, Taylor Slifko, FreeVectorMaps.com VIDEOGRAPHER Mike Andrews We welcome your feedback:
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