UT Knoxville Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek has been appointed to chair a new global research initiative created to discover the next generation of fertilizers and production technologies. The federally funded initiative is part of the International Fertilizer Development Center.

Marco Di Giulio, Ph.D., Diane and Guilford Glazer Teaching Fellow in modern Hebrew at the University of Tennessee, has been chosen to participate in the 2010 Schusterman Center for Israel Studies Summer Institute at Brandeis University from June 15-July 8, 2010. Di Giulio, who received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Florence, Italy, came to UT in July 2009 to teach modern Hebrew in the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies.

Takeshi Egami, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received the J.D. Hanawalt Award from the International Union of Crystallography with S. J. L. Billinge for important contributions to the field of x-ray powder diffraction.

Sarah Gardial, vice provost of faculty affairs at UT Knoxville, has been named board president of the MBA Roundtable, the premier organization that provides guidance and leadership for MBA curriculum worldwide.

Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, recently received the Starlight Award for Distinguished Alumni from the Maryville City Schools Foundation.