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• Sharon Fox Sweeney recently was named Poet Laureate 2021-2022 by the Poetry Society of Tennessee at its annual Poetry Festival. Sweeney is founder of the Knoxville Chapter of PST, served as president from 2017 to 2021 and sits on the state PST executive committee.
• Eric Dawson, head of Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, has been promoted to manager of Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection.
Dawson follows longtime manager Steve Cotham, who retired after more than 40 years. The McClung collection holds photos, documents and ephemera including the famed Burns Letter, which helped secure the 19th Amendment for women’s right to vote. The McClung Collection is housed in East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St., and is part of the Knox County Public Library system.
• Knox Area Rescue Ministries recently announced changes in its senior leadership that will take place beginning in October 2022. Long-time chief executive officer Burt Rosen will retire, and Danita McCartney, current KARM president, will become CEO.
Prior to Rosen’s retirement, he and the organization’s Board will explore ways he may continue to provide his experience to KARM and its various ministries and operations.
Rosen has served as KARM’s CEO for nearly 20 years. McCartney, who was named president last year, previously was executive vice president, chief operations officer and also has served as vice president of development. She is a 12-year veteran of the organization.
• McNabb Center broke ground Tuesday, Feb. 1, on CenterPointe, a residential substance use treatment facility at 5310 Ball Camp Pike in
Knoxville. This facility will increase access to residential substance use treatment beds and medical detoxification beds in East Tennessee.
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently announced the 2021 AAAS Fellows. Five faculty members from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s, College of Arts and Sciences and two from the UT Institute of Agriculture are in this year’s class. Election of AAAS Fellow is a lifetime honor.
Elected faculty are Brad Day, Mircea Podar and Steven Wilhelm in the Department of Microbiology; Linda Kah in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Hanno Weitering in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; David Anderson in the College of Veterinary Medicine; and Carl Sams in the Department of Plant Sciences.
The Helen Ross McNabb Foundation, a non-profit provider of mental health, substance use and social and victim services, launched a fundraising campaign for this project, which is supported by Knox County, the City of Knoxville, University of Tennessee Medical Center, Clayton Homes, Thomas and Lindsey Boyd, the Boyd Foundation, Brunton Masonry and other numerous private donors.
• Knox Area Rescue Ministries recently announced changes in its senior leadership that will take place beginning in October 2022. Long-time chief executive officer Burt Rosen will retire, and Danita McCartney, current KARM president, will become CEO.
Prior to Rosen’s retirement, he and the organization’s Board will explore ways he may continue to provide his experience to KARM and its various ministries and operations.
Rosen has served as KARM’s CEO for nearly 20 years. McCartney, who was named president last year, previously was executive vice president, chief operations officer and has also served as vice president of development. She is a 12-year veteran of the organization.
• David Manderscheid, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor of Mathematics, recently was appointed to serve as director of the National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences.
• The University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s, The Tickle College of Engineering remained highly placed in the latest U.S. News and World Report ranking of online master’s engineering programs. The college is now 20th among public schools, 27th overall.
The college offers several online master’s and graduate certificate options, including in advanced manufacturing, hypersonics, engineering management and will soon begin teaching classes in computer science.
• The McNabb Center recently received a $1.1 million grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to create three Crisis Response Teams to help children experiencing a mental health crisis.
“We want to change the way families experience a crisis and build a system that makes it easier to access services and alleviate barriers,” said Mary Katsikas, McNabb Center clinical vice president. “It is important that, in a time of crisis, the family has the resources they need to focus on their child.”
These Crisis Response Teams will partner with schools, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and detention centers to improve outcomes from a child’s mental health crisis.
At Children’s Hospital, the team will provide additional psychiatric support, as well as assessment and discharge planning, to help divert children from hospitalization when appropriate. Through the detention centers, the team will assist in addressing crisis situation for children residing there and provide psychiatric evaluation and medication management.
• The University of Tennessee Medical Center recently announced the Center for Perioperative Medicine as its eighth Center of Excellence. The center has been established to create a safe, high-quality surgical and anesthesia experience for patients, team members.
