Just over 150 years ago, my great-great-great-grandmother Sarah Redden left her three young children in rural Tennessee and walked 400 miles west. There, she started a new life and gave herself a new name - Sarah Redenhour.

Venise Berry and Len MacGillivray honored for their commitment to helping graduate students succeed.

Read updates about Julia Lucas's 465-mile walk from Hickman, Tenn., to Prairie Grove, Ark.

J Verniero displayed leadership, learning, and loyalty while serving the campus community and beyond as a doctoral student in the Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program.

Anna Williams composed her dissertation as a six-chapter audio essay on pedagogy, gender, and the literary history of the Gothic.