Pictured with the county’s newest drug take-back box, located inside the UT Martin
Department of Public Safety in Crisp Hall, are (l-r) Lt. Charles Jahr; Suzanne Harper, director of
the Weakley County Prevention Coalition; Dr. Deborah Gibson, UT Martin professor of health
and human performance and a member of the Weakley County Prevention Coalition; and Scott
Robbins, director of the Department of Public Safety.

The UT Martin Percussion Ensemble is one of five programs to receive funding
through the Alliance of Women Philanthropists’ Giving Circle Grants Program for 2017-18. The
ensemble will use the funds to purchase new steel drums for their Roots of Rhythm performance
set. Pictured playing in a recent Roots of Rhythm concert are students (l-r) Logan Hays, of
Newbern; Abby Shear, of Waverly; Hohner Porter, of Trenton; Nathaniel O’Neal, of Burns; and
Andre Espinoza, of Murfreesboro.

WUTM staff members Olivia Johnston (left), news director; Ashley Shores (center,
left), program director; and Kait Scott (right), support and development director, are pictured
with Dr. Richard Robinson (center, right), associate professor of communications and WUTM
faculty adviser, after accepting the station’s eighth Platinum Award from the Intercollegiate
Broadcasting System during the organization’s annual conference March 2-4 in New York City,
New York.

(L-R) Josiah Nodurft, Zane Milan, Justin Leal, Megan Christoferson, Eleanor Garrard, Claire Myers, Jesse Veltman