Professor Emeritus Gordon Burghardt received the 2024 Biosemiotics Achievement Award for his contribution to a special issue of Biosemiotics, titled “Jakob von Uexküll, heterophenomenology, and behavior systems I: Core ethology and Merleau-Ponty.”

Photo by Erik Campos Fall 2025 Virtual Information Sessions The Counseling Psychology PhD at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville invites prospective graduate students to join us for two virtual information… Read more: Fall 2025 Virtual Information Sessions for the Counseling Psychology PhD Program

With an expansion of its name, the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is showcasing wide opportunities for studying systems that control behavior in humans and other animals.

Servers told researchers that they were instructed to make their male customers feel special. Brian Brainerd/The Denver Post via Getty Images Dawn Szymanski, University of Tennessee In 1983, six businessmen… Read more: The Conversation: ‘With Hooters on the verge of bankruptcy, a psychologist reflects on her time spent studying the servers who work there’

Cass Bennett has been with the Psychology Advising Center since October 2022. They have been working as a professional counselor since 2012 and started their own practice specializing in ADHD,… Read more: Staff News and Updates

Jasmine Coleman earned her PhD in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her broad research goal is to advance our understanding of ways to reduce mental and behavioral health disparities… Read more: Faculty News and Updates

Greetings alumni and friends, I want to share some exciting updates from the fall semester as we begin the new year. Our undergraduate degree programs in psychology and neuroscience and… Read more: Message from Department Head Gina Owens

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is joining three other universities to explore the impact of families on the mental health of Latinx lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth.

Colton Adams, a 2023 graduate in honors ecology and evolutionary biology and psychology, continued his academic journey as one of UT’s 13 Fulbright Scholars for 2023–2024, contributing to the Big Orange reputation as a top producer of these accomplished students.

When Sandy Thomas was looking for a job in 1986, a good friend encouraged her to apply at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Because of the people in the Department… Read more: Thomas Retires as UT Psychology Admin

Animal behavior captivated Gordon Burghardt as a boy, and over more than half a century at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, his interdisciplinary research advanced ethology in areas including animal… Read more: Burghardt honored by Animal Behavior Society

Gemma Ware, The Conversation Across the world, fans will soon be tuning in at all hours of the day and night to watch the Paris Olympics. In a world where… Read more: Garriy Shteynberg in ‘The Conversation’ Podcast: Sharing that moment: can collective experiences bring people closer together?