In 1980 Lindsay Young, partner in the Knoxville law firm of McCampbell and Young, gave the university securities valued at $1 million in response to the university’s first National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant. His gift established endowed professorships to reward faculty who are outstanding teachers, researchers, and public servants. Ten awards are made each year: one in law, one in veterinary medicine, and eight in the humanities. Each year department heads nominate faculty members, who are then voted upon by tenured members of the arts and sciences faculty. To be considered, a faculty member must have more than five years’ experience at UT and must have earned tenure. The monetary awards assist in scholarly activities of the faculty.