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Even before the Institute’s official announcement, the Associated Press scrambled to get word on their national wire. Print and electronic media in the Knoxville area quickly converged on campus for a news conference and chance to meet Millie and interview the researchers responsible for her. And in the days that followed news and images of Millie appeared in USA Today, on CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC and in a spate of other national, regional, and farm media. Paul Harvey spoke of Millie and the pioneering research that created her on his nationally syndicated radio show, and broadcasters as far away as Australia explored the idea of sending a news crew to campus. Meanwhile on the Internet hundreds of people explored information about the UT Cloning Project. In the days following the university’s announcement of Millie’s birth, online material at the project’s Web site was accessed more than a thousand times by academics and the general public alike. And that interest was widespread. According to server statistics, site visitors came from a United Nations-like listing of nations, among them Denmark, Taiwan, Greece, France, Italy and South Africa. You, too, can visit the site at http://web.utk.edu/~taescomm/utclone.html. The research team plans to update information at the site with new images and information about Millie as the calf matures. -- Margot Pantalone
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