addenda The University of Tennessee at Martin Faculty and Staff Newsletter | Sept. 4, 2018 Family Weekend returns Sept. 14-16 UT Martin will host its second-annual Family Weekend on Sept. 14-16. The weekend’s activities begin at 5:30 p.m., Sept. 14, with a food truck event in Weldon Park in downtown Martin. Saturday, Sept. 15, features the Bowtie 5K/one-mile fun run with Chancellor Keith Carver. Onsite check-in opens at 8 a.m. in front of the Kathleen and Tom Elam Center, and the run will begin at 9. Online pre- registration is required, and the $15 registration fee includes a T-shirt. Donuts with Deans will begin at 10 at the Martin Coffeehouse on Lindell Street. A tailgate party will begin at noon at Hardy Graham Stadium prior to the football game at 3 p.m. where the UT Martin Skyhawks FAMILY EVENTS – The Bowtie 5K/one-mile run with Chancellor Carver is one of many activities planned for the second-annual UT Martin Family Weekend, Sept. 14-16. will face the UT Chattanooga Mocs. A drive-in movie showing of “Avengers: Infinity War” will T-shirt; a $2 coffee voucher to individual activities. Hall. The all-you-can-eat brunch begin at 9 p.m. near Pacer Pond. the Martin Coffeehouse; and The weekend’s events end will be $12.21 plus tax for adults A Family Weekend Package a variety of discount coupons Sunday with a student-led non- and $5.78 plus tax for children is available for $30 per person at local restaurants. Packages denominational worship service age 12 and under. and includes one voucher for must be pre-ordered online and at 9:30 a.m. in the Boling Visit utm.edu/familyweekend the food truck event; one meal picked up either at the food University Center’s Watkins to register for the Bowtie 5K, ticket for the tailgate party; truck dinner or at Donuts with Auditorium followed by Bowtie reserve a Family Weekend one general admission football Deans. Tickets and concessions Brunch from 10:30 a.m.-1:30 Package or see a full schedule of ticket; a Family Weekend can also be purchased at p.m. in the UT Martin Dining activities. Click here to contribute. page 2 | addenda | Sept. 4, 2018 highlighting the excellence of YoUTMs our faculty and staff In Memory Dr. Ross Pruitt, associate Dr. Brian Donavant, professor Dr. Lynn Alexander, dean Betty Rasberry, retired professor of agricultural of criminal justice, has been of the College of Humanities assistant professor of social work economics, attended the selected as a faculty reviewer and Fine Arts, has been elected and director of the Department Agricultural and Applied for the American Council on to serve as chairman of the of Sociology and Anthropology, Economics Association’s Education. ACE assesses and Humanities Tennessee Board of died Aug. 27 at the age of 91. She annual meeting Aug. 4-7 in validates whether military and Directors. She will serve a one- completed a bachelor of science Washington, D.C., where corporate courses, occupations year term with the possibility of degree in elementary education he presented a paper titled or professional examinations reelection to a second year. at UT Martin in 1960 and later “Millennial College Students: have the appropriate content, Humanities Tennessee is a finished a master of science in What Keeps Them Engaged in scope and rigor for college credit statewide organization that social work at the University of Classroom? Multi-Institutional recommendations and may be sponsors projects focused Tennessee, Knoxville. She spent Survey of Agriculture Students.” eligible for academic transfer. on literature, history and more than 10 years working Co-authors on the paper culture across the state. for the Tennessee Department are Dr. Aslihan Spaulding, Programs currently available of Human Services before Illinois State University; Dr. Dr. Lisa Krueger, associate in West Tennessee include the returning to UT Martin and Iuliia Protopop, Illinois State professor of biology, is co-author “Water Ways” Smithsonian establishing the degree program University; Dr. Yangxuan Liu, of a recently published paper exhibit at Reelfoot Lake; the in social work. She then served Eastern Kentucky University; titled “Improving Success of Rare “Tennessee Waters” exhibit in as department chair for many Dr. Michelle Santiago, Murray Plant Seed Reintroductions: Covington later this month; years before retiring after 30 State University; Dr. Anil Giri, A Case Study of ‘Dalea the Neighborhood Story Project years of state government University of Central Missouri; carthegenensis’ var. ‘floridana,’ conducted by the UT Martin service. She then began a private and Dr. Sankalp Sharma, Kent a Rare Legume with Dormant Paul Meek Library; and the social work practice in Martin. State University. Eight UT Seeds.” The paper appeared forthcoming Smithsonian tour Funeral services were held Aug. Martin students also attended in volume 26 of ‘Restoration “Crossroads: Changing Rural 30 in Newbern. the conference and advanced to Ecology,’ a peer-reviewed journal America.” the fifth round of the academic focused on recovering damaged bowl. or destroyed ecosystems. Addenda has resumed weekly publication. Please Tennessee Soybean Festival main stage schedule send submissions to Erin Chesnut, •Frankie Vallie Tribute band – 8 p.m., Sept. 4 Addenda editor, at •The Jackson Symphony – 7:30 p.m., Sept. 5 echesnut@utm. •Switchfoot – 8 p.m., Sept. 6 edu by noon on •38 Special and Foreigner – 8 p.m., Sept. 7 Thursdays for •Gretchen Wilson and Big & Rich – 7 p.m., Sept. 8 consideration in the next week’s issue. page 3 | addenda | Sept. 4, 2018 Recycling Facility requests community assistance SELF-SORT STATION – A new self-sorting station is available outside the UT Martin Recycling Facility on Moody Avenue. Built with funds from a 2017 Giving Circle Grant from the University of Tennessee Alliance of Women Philanthropists, the station allows facility patrons to divide recyclable materials into appropriately labeled bins and help keep facility costs low. A new self-sort station is Angie MacKewn, co-sponsor unrinsed attract rodents and MacKewn are co-writers of the available at the UT Martin of the UTM Recycles! program. other unwanted animals to the grant that funded construction Recycling Facility, thanks According to annual records, site. of the new self-sort station. to a 2017 Giving Circle the Recycling Facility recycled The Recycling Facility The Recycling Facility, located Grant from the University of approximately 182 tons of currently cannot accept aerosol on Moody Avenue, is open Tennessee Alliance of Women cardboard, 45 tons of mixed or pressurized cans, paint cans, from 7 a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays, Philanthropists. Community office paper, 17 tons of various Styrofoam, clothing, glass, Wednesdays, Fridays and members are asked to use plastics and almost two tons of plastics not marked with a Saturdays, and from 3-6 p.m. on this station to sort recyclable aluminum beverage containers number one or number two, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The materials as they are delivered. in 2017. or any electronics. However, facility is closed on Sundays, According to Mike Davis, The Recycling Facility MacKewn, Davis and Dr. Heidi holidays and any time when the facility manager, the Recycling currently accepts plastic Huse, program co-sponsor, university is not in operation. Facility once employed four full- materials with either a number hope future grants will fund time staff members and close to one or a number two inside the purchase of a can condenser 20 student workers. However, the recycling symbol (see image and a glass crusher and allow If you would like the facility is now only staffed left). The facility also accepts the facility to expand its list of to organize a by two full-time workers, a part- both aluminum and steel cans, acceptable items. class community time employee and two student paper, cardboard, scrap metal, “While the changes at the assistants. ink cartridges and books. Recycling Facility may require service project in “We used to have more All items must be rinsed and extra steps from campus and cooperation with volunteers … and now we’re delivered with the lids taken community recyclers, we are the Recycling just low on help,” said Dr. off and discarded. Items should excited to see the UT Martin Facility, contact Dr. also be sorted loose. Items in recycling program evolve. Angie MacKewn at bags cannot be inserted into We hope it continues to be the recycling equipment; items something the campus and [email protected] with lids cannot be crushed community can support and be or 731-881-7370. effectively; and items that are proud of,” said Huse. Huse and page 4 | addenda | Sept. 4, 2018 Calendar Fall semester Canvas Training •Sept. 4-9 – Tennessee Soybean dates Festival; see mainstage schedule Sept. 5 on page 2 or full schedule at •Sept. 1-9 – Tennessee •11 a.m.- noon – Get to Know QuestionPro tnsoybeanfestival.org Soybean Festival •1:30-2 p.m. – Arc Video Capture •Sept. 4-22 – Fifth-annual •Sept. 13 – College ‘Guitar as Art’ exhibit; Fine Arts Connection Day Sept. 7 Building Gallery •Sept. 15 – Family •8:30-9:30 a.m. – START: Start Teaching wtih Advanced •Sept. 5 – Tennessee Soybean Weekend; football vs. UT Resources and Tools Festival Prayer Breakfast, Dr. Chattanooga •10-10:30 – STOMP: Start Teaching and Organizing Keith Carver keynote; First •Oct. 5 – Spring 2019 with Modules and Pages Baptist Church; 6:45 a.m. course schedules due to •11-11:30 – BANG: Better Assignments and the New •Sept. 5 – UT Martin New Pacer college deans Gradebook Singers perform with Foreigner; •Oct. 12 – Mid-term •1:30-2 p.m. – CLEAR: Clarifying Lessons and Tennessee Soybean Festival progress reports due Eliminating Ambiguity with Rubrics main stage, Festival Park; 8 p.m.