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What is UTC’s Quantum Initiative? Ask Dr. Reinhold Mann. For student storytellers, the place to be: Rising Rock on WUTC. By Design: Students at UTC reimagine The Jazzy Buildings. These voices - and more - on this edition of “Scenic Roots.”

Every year, students in a class here on our campus - the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - focus their senior thesis projects on a historic building. This year, the students in UTC’s Interior Architecture and Design program revisited The Jazzy Buildings - stretching from Market to Broad Streets.

For four decades, Alice Randall has devoted her creative energy into writing songs for some of the biggest names in country music. The first Black woman to write a number one country song, she's the next guest on "The A List with Alison Lebovitz" - Thursday at 8:30 PM on our public media partner WTCI PBS.

To mark this year’s summer solstice, the Clarence T. Jones Observatory - part of our campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga - is opening its doors for a free public seminar on Thursday.

This year's monthlong Chattanooga Festival of Black Arts and Ideas: Juneteenth Independence Day will begins Saturday evening the RBG Ball - the Red, Black and Green Ball - featuring a Black Arts Awards Ceremony and the introduction of three historical African princesses.

Lourans Mikhail is a muralist, sculptor, painter and graphic designer here in Chattanooga. A Marine veteran, his work has been shown in galleries in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago and Chattanooga - and he’s painted large-scale murals from San Diego, Anaheim and New Orleans to Chattanooga, Nashville and Memphis. I spoke with him after he completed a month-long artist residency at Chateau Orqueveaux in France.

From 1982 until 2005, August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays about the Black experience in Pittsburgh during the 20th Century - with one play set in each decade. The series is known as the Century Cycle - and on Friday, the second play in the Cycle, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” premieres at Chattanooga Theatre Centre.

Sekou Cooke is an architect and urban designer now based in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is the director of the urban design program at UNC Charlotte - and author of the book “Hip-Hop Architecture." On Thursday starting at 5:30 PM, Sekou will give a talk at Stove Works here in Chattanooga for CIVIQ, the speaker series from Chattanooga Design Studio.

Growth is key to revitalizing cities and neighborhoods - but what kind of growth? Alan Mallach has grappled with that question. He's the next speaker for CIVIQ from Chattanooga Design Studio, this Thursday at 5:30 PM at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library.

As Chattanooga grows and evolves, so does the passion to preserve its small town spirit. That passion is at the heart of Love Local Chattanooga. The project features a podcast - and its hosts are Dr. Chris Collins and Briana Garza.