business briefs
• Realty Executives Associates, a prominent Knoxville brokerage, is celebrating 40 years of successfully serving the residential needs of the East Tennessee community in 2019. Led by president Steve Fogarty, Realty Executives Associates has enjoyed decades of success and continues to be one of the most productive and successful brokerages of Realty Executives and its market.
• Emerson Breeden, Food City community relations director, has received Boy Scouts of America’s North Star Award, introduced by BSA National Court of Honor. He recently received the award at Great Smoky Mountain Council BSA’s annual reception banquet.
• Dr. Hash Hashemian of Farragut, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation president/CEO, has been re-appointed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Rose to Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee. Hashemian will advise Rose about trade issues facing the U.S. civil nuclear industry in international markets, and he will provide consensus advice on development and administration of programs and policies to expand U.S. civil nuclear exports.
• Janis Terpenny, head of Pennsylvania State University Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering department, has been chosen as Wayne T. Davis Endowed Dean’s chair and dean of UT’s Tickle College of Engineering starting Aug. 1.
• The University of Tennessee Medical Center has promoted the following former high-ranking officials: Kathy Boyd, from chief development officer to senior vice president and chief development officer; Ben Cox, from general counsel to senior vice president and chief general counsel; and Bruce Hartmann, from vice president of community and government relations to senior vice president and chief relations officer.
