Life & Culture
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Life & culture articles from campuses and around the local communities of King University including Throwback articles from past issue.
TISL Creating Opportunities for Students in Politics
The Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature (TISL) is a program for politically minded college students all across the state to come together and learn more about the function of government. TISL holds a General Assembly every fall semester, of which King University has had a delegation attend for several years now…
7 Tips For Handling Stress
This is the point in the semester when we often see a rise in stress, anxiety, and depression. The newness of being back at school has worn off and tests and projects have begun. For this semester, not only are we dealing with normal semester stress, we are experiencing anxiety at an extremely high rate due to navigating life during a pandemic…
Summit Supercomputer Joins The Fight Against COVID-19
The Summit Supercomputer located in Oak Ridge, TN, has put its artificial intelligence towards the fight against COVID-19. Daniel Jacobson, chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge National Labs, and his team of researchers fed Summit genetic data from COVID-19 samples to compare and come up with a hypothesis and potential treatment options. After a week of running the data, the researchers viewed Summit’s findings and came to the Bradykinin Hypothesis…
Never Stop Learning
“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” Leonardo da Vinci is revered as one of the most influential figures in human history, and, other than the whole unparalleled genius thing, he was an autodidact—someone who is self-taught—whose contributions to arts and sciences have helped usher our species into a golden age. Though trained in the arts by the guild system, his myriad of other skills was largely self-taught…
Voting During a Pandemic
2020 has been one long, inescapable nightmare and the presidential campaign has had no small part in that. Now the candidates have been chosen the race is finally nearing its end. The swarm of political ads and rampant display of campaign merchandise means that our most sacred of civil duties is once again upon us. Crowds will be gathering around polls and with them the danger of the spread of Covid-19…
88.3 WCQR Sponsoring Letter-Writing Campaign for Kids at Niswonger Children’s Hospital
“We have found that sometimes it’s the words we say that can Speak Life into someone,” says Lori Price, the afternoon host at 88.3 WCQR.
Covid-19 and “prayers that are made out of grass”
At first, to be honest, I relished the abrupt and absolute vanishing of all the entries on my calendar after the Covid-19 pandemic hit. No more soccer games on Saturdays. No more church on Wednesday nights. No more showing up in person to teach, or driving my kids to and from school. No more anything outside of the home. The shelter in place order fed my shadow introvert tendencies. I relished wearing yoga pants every day, sleeping in, and the extra time with my family…
Perspective: First Things First
As a communication professor at King’s Knoxville campus, I get to teach a leadership communication class regularly. One of the required texts for that class is Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. As a result, alongside my students, I am consistently challenged to evaluate my life in terms of priorities and efficiency…
Perspective: King University’s Chair of Criminal Justice on Black Lives Matter
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at King University. I am also the faculty advisor to the Black Student Union. Seems a little contradictory doesn’t it? Especially given our current state of affairs? Well, I do love being an enigma. I mean, I test into Slytherin house, and my greatest spiritual gift is mercy…figure that one out…