{"id":3064,"date":"2025-03-25T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T15:48:41","slug":"pubh-minor-student-received-uts-highest-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/2025\/03\/25\/pubh-minor-student-received-uts-highest-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBH minor student received UT&#8217;s Highest Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/03\/img_tmyers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3065 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/cehhs.utk.edu\/publichealth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2025\/03\/img_tmyers.jpg\" alt=\"Tyler Myers\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Tyler Myers for receiving the Torchbearer Award, the highest honor that a University of Tennessee student can receive.\u00a0 Tyler is an undergraduate student majoring in both biological science and neuroscience with minors in public health and chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Tyler and this year&#8217;s other recipients <a href=\"https:\/\/news.utk.edu\/2025\/03\/10\/ten-students-named-torchbearers-uts-highest-honor\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Tyler Myers for receiving the Torchbearer Award, the highest honor that a University of Tennessee student can receive.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,25,131,58,114],"tags":[267,80,36,79,73,225,81,63,72,115,104],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-achievements","category-awards","category-media","category-student-recognition","category-undergraduate","tag-267","tag-award","tag-awards","tag-current-student","tag-current-students","tag-minor","tag-recognition","tag-student","tag-students","tag-undergraduate","tag-undergraduates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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