Marcus Pohlmann, author of Opportunity Lost: Race and Poverty in the Memphis City Schools, is an expert on the relationship of poverty to school reform. His views were recently been featured in the Washington Post.
Pohlmann is also quoted in a recent New York Times story regarding the move to dissolve the Memphis school system into the Shelby County school system.
Dr. DiPietro Accepts Amphibians.
Pictured in the photo, left to right: R. Graham Reynolds, Dr. Joseph DiPietro, Matthew Niemiller.
UT president Dr. Joe DiPietro recently was presented with a copy of The Amphibians of Tennessee by editors Matthew Niemiller and R. Graham Reynolds.
The only complete work of its kind for the Volunteer State, the book is the definitive guide to the rich diversity of frogs and salamanders found throughout Tennessee. Featuring 287 beautiful photographs and detailed accounts of all eighty of the state’s species of amphibians, this is a volume for the professional scientist and amateur naturalist alike. The Amphibians of Tennessee was generously supported by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Matthew Niemiller and R. Graham Reynolds are doctoral graduates of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Matthew is now Donnelly Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies at Yale University. Graham is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Massachusetts in Boston.
Online Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Music Section)
The massive Encyclopedia of Appalachia (Music Section) is the first of a projected thirty-section, comprehensive online reference on the natural resources, history, and culture of Appalachia. This section has been produced with the generous support of the Appalachian Regional Commission, the tireless efforts of the music section editor, Ted Olson (Professor of Appalachian Studies, East Tennessee State University), the guidance of Jean Haskell (Whisman Scholar, Appalachian Regional Commission), and the advice of a multitude of scholars of the region who contributed to the print edition of The Encyclopedia of Appalachia.
As the site continues to grow in popularity, development is underway for adding new content and making the encyclopedia an even more valuable online compendium of Appalachian culture and experience.
