Martha Carroll (lyre), Peggy Calloway (bells), and Marjorie Abott (marimba) joined the marching band in 1940. From 1949 to 1959, the band was again all male.

The first externally funded scholarship came in 1902 from Dr. W. S. Nash, who gave $50 a year as a scholarship for a student studying mechanical engineering and who otherwise could not attend college.

On March 19, 2006, Candace Parker became the first female basketball player to dunk in an NCAA tournament game with 13:47 remaining in the first half of the game against Army. She dunked again with 14:38 remaining in the second half. UT won the game 102-54. Her first home-court dunk came in the November 2006 … Continued

The first building allocated for use as a faculty club (1936) was the Shields House at 1600 Melrose Avenue, the present site of the John C. Hodges Library.

Professor Nugent E. Fitzgerald of the College of Agriculture, later to become dean of the College of Education, became the first president of the Faculty Club in 1936.

In June 2008 the Stokely family, through the William B. Stokely Jr. Foundation, endowed the deanship of the College of Business. The Stokely Foundation Leadership Chair was first occupied by the incumbent dean, Jan R. Williams, on July 1, 2008.

In 1878 faculty members of the Nashville Medical College organized a dental department. When the Nashville Medical College joined UT in 1879, it brought with it the South’s oldest dental school.

In the 1970s Nancy Nelson (Wyszynski), Lindsey Nelson’s daughter, served as the first costumed Smokey.

In the late 1920s, Stanley Phillips Johnson, a member of the celebrated Fugitive Poets of Vanderbilt University and a published novelist, was hired to fill the new position of director of public relations. In 1930 he was given the additional responsibility of secretary to the board of trustees, and under President James D. Hoskins, added … Continued

In 1922 the Department of Home Economics offered its first course in child care.