Aviators Music Programs Slated Concert the Department of Music at the University of Tennessee at Martin Has Announced the Following Musical Programs
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https ://www. kfvs 1 2. com/ ilttYs UT Martin to host uirtual Ueterans Day Geremony By Amher Ruch I November3,2020 at 11:31 AM CST - Updated November 3 at 11:31 AM MARTIN, Tenn. (KFVS) - The University of Tennessee at Martin Office of Veterans Affairs will host a virtual Veterans Day ceremony. The ceremony will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 11 to honor the service of all veterans in the Martin community. It will feature: . Pre-recorded videos of the American Legion Post 55 presenting the colors . Dr. fohn Oelrich, assistant professor of music, and the Skyhawk String Ensemble performing a patriotic melody . Message from UT Martin Chancellor Keith Carver . Tribute to service by the UT Martin faculty and staff . Poem presented by |ames Avant, sophomore psychology maior at UT Martin Somerville Center . Remarks by UT Martin Veteran Services Coordinator f ason Earley and Veteran Benefits Specialist Marcus VanCleave The guest speaker will be Justin |ohnson, U.S. Marine and Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network regional director for Memphis and Shelby County. The Messenger. Union City. Tennessee. Tuesday. November 3. 2020 Aviators Music programs slated concert The department of music at the University of Tennessee at Martin has announced the following musical programs: . Percussion Ensemble Concert at 8 tonight. It will be scheduled available on the UTM Music Facebook and YouTube The University of Ten- pages. nessee at Martin Aviators . Live from the Tent: Concert Band & Wind Ensemble Marching Band will host a will be held Thursday at 6 p.m. It will be a free drive-in "Last Blast" concert 3 p.-. performance; will be livestreamed on the UTM Music Saturday at the tent in Pacer Facebook and YouTube pages and may be listened to live Pond parking lot. on WUTM 90.3. The concert will be the . UTM Sessions Night: "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, first time the Aviators will Steven Snowden" will be Thursday at 8 p.m. It will be perform in their new uni- available on the UTM Music Facebook and YouTube forms, unveiled in IVIarch, pages. as well as with new Yamaha To learn more, visit utm.edu/musicevents. drumline equipment. The drive-in concert is open to the public, with no admission fee. It will also be livestreamed on the UTM Music Facebook and YouTube accounts as well as WUTM 90.3 FM. THE WEAKLEY COUNTY PRESS TUESDAI NOVEMBER 3, 2020 UTM named fall2020 outstanding employee award recipients Destin Tucker, director of Hortense Parrish Writing the Office of Undergradu- Center with administrative ate Admissions, and Sheav needs. She has also helped McGehee, administrativl organize the Young Writ- assistant to the Department er'g Conference for many of English and Modern years. Foreign Languages, are "Her experience, ex- the fall 2020 recipients of piirtise and administrative the Outstanding Employee acumen have made her in- Awards for their dedication dispensable to the chair and and service to the UT Mar- faculty in EMFL. ... Going tin community. above and beyond the call Tucker has servedn as of duty is just a normal [he director of admissions day's work for her," read since 2016 and overseas McGehee's nomination the recruitment and enroll- letter. ment of new undergraduate Chancellor Keith Carver Chancellor Keith Carver and Destin Thcker students, campus tours and surprised both recipients recruiting events, as well with their plaques, which as Summer Orientation and are normally awarded to Registration (SOAR). the recipients each fall and "Destin is a doer. She spring during the clerical ,rhings, doesh't jusr ptan and support',staff 1 coffeei' shE takes action.and does The event was not held this whatever is needed to lall because of ihe pan- achieve success, and we demic. have witnessed many suc- UTM Outstanding Em- cessful outcomes due to ployee Awards are given her determination," read to one exempt and one Tucker's nomination letter. nonexempt employee each McGehee has worked in semester. Recipients are the English and Modern nominated by their co- Foreign Language office workers and chosen by a since 2013 and is respon- selection committee. sible for assisting faculty For more information, Sheay McGehee and Chancellor Keith Carver members with whatever contact the UTM Office needs to be accomplished, of University Relations at supervises the student 731-881-7615. workers and assists the THE WEAKLEY COUNTY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 3030 INNOVATION AND PRODUCT REALIZATION FACILITY AT UTM - This artist rendering of the proposed lnnovation and Product Realization Facility at UT Martin shows potential uses of space for engineering and other projects.The{acility is a joint effort by UT Martin,Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology and Dyersburg State Community College to support and expand workforce and economic development in rural NorthwestTennessee. Performance fundingr' Innovation Facility among UT Board highlights +ifhe Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) credible senior leadership team, you have an incredible has recommended that the University of Tennessee at faculty, you have an incredible staff, and when all of Martin receive $393,000 in additional outcomes-based those pieces come together, the (funding) formula takes formula funding in the next budget year based on es- care of itself." tablished standards. The announcement was rnade by Petra McPhearson, vice chancellor for finance and University of Tennessee President Randy Boyd in com- administration, said that the funding news comes at an ments Oct. 23 during the fall meeting of the UT board opportune time for the university. "Funding formula in- of trustees. The meeting was conducted by webcast in vestments allow us to pay for initiatives that help our accordance with recommended safety standards during students be successful." she said in a statement. "This the COVID- l9 pandemic. fiscal year, the formula resulted in a reduction of over Boyd also announced that THEC has moved UT $1.1 million. The money will help us recover from the Martin's lnnovation and Product Realization Facility funding loss in fiscal year 2021 .The new funding in fis- to the commission's Capital Projects Recommendation cal year 2022 wlll certainly give us a step in the right List. The $17.5 million, 50,000-square-foot innovation d irection." center is one of three University of Tennessee projects The lnnovation and Product Realization Facility will recommended by THEC. The facility is a joint effort by be located on the UT Martin main campus and combine UT Martin, Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology educational facilities, entrepreneurial centers and manu- and Dyersburg State Community College to support and facturing workshops surrounding a shared industrial expand workforce and economic development in rural maker space. "You all sent in. a great (innovation cen- Northwest Tennessee. Both the additional outcomes- ter) proposal, and as.a result, you're 9n oy{ list, and our based formula funding and the innovation center are mission now, my mission, is to work with Chancellor agenda items for the fall 2020 commission meeting Nov. (Keith) Carver and President Boyd to work to get that 6 at Middle Tennessee State University. building funded and to work to get the outcomes-based Mike Krause, THEC executive director, visited UT funding formula funded," Krause said. Martin Oct.2l and previewed both announcements dur- "The pandemic is challenging higher education and ing a weekly faculty and staff town hall. "UT Martin UT Martin in multiple lvays," said Carver in a statement. will be one of the institutions that's actually performed "THEC's recommendations for additional outcomes- well enough in the outcomes-based funding formula to based funding support and the new innovation center receive new money. " Krause told the Zoom audience. come at a critical time as lve seek innovative ways to "And succeeding in the outcomes-based funding formu- support our students and contribute to the region's eco- la, without question, only happens if every layer to the nomic development now and in the future. We never take university has bought in. for granted support by the commission, the state and the "You have an incredible chancellor, you have an in- University of Tennessee." THE WEAKLEY COUNTY PRESS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020 -ffi*'ry944ry*$t.ry!s!$++q: l i" l i 6 ryl& lW;ryl I ll lffirel lwffil lm*l twtt kWr Digital artwork created by Dr.Windy Wang is featured in the "Made in Quarantine" exhibit Fine Arts Gallery hosts faculty exhibit The University of Tennessee at Martin To hear each artist discuss their cre- Fine Arts Gallery is currently hosting ations, visit the UT Martin Department an exhibit titled "Made in Quarantine," of Visual and Theatre Arts Facebook to which features artwork made by faculty watch the archived opening night celebra- members in the Department of Visual and tion. Theatre Arts who found creative inspira- The "Made in Quarantine" exhibit runs tion even through the pandemic. until Nov. 13, and the Fine Arts Gallqry is Gallery visitors can see artwork such as open to the public from l-5 p.m., Monday ceramics, fibers, paintings, graphic design through Friday. Masks are required in the creations and digital projections by facul- gallery. ty artists David McBeth, Donna McBeth, For more information, contact Dr. Carol Sarah Haig, Michelle Williams, Jason Eckert, chair of visual and theatre arts, at Stout, Lane Last and Dr. Windy Wang. '731-881-7897 . AVIATORS MARCHING BAND HOSTS 'LAST BLAST' CONCERT -The University of Tennessee at Martin Aviators Marching Band will host a "Last Blast" concert at 3 p.m. on Nov.7, at the tent in the Pacer Pond parking lot.The concert will be the first time the Aviators will perform in their new uniforms, which were unveiled in March, as well as their new completely outfittedYamaha drumline equipment.