Dr. Ralph Dunford joined the UT faculty in 1926 as assistant professor of psychology. He earned the bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Ohio State University, and upon completion of his PhD degree in 1929, he was promoted to associate professor at UT. He became a full professor in 1936. From September 1940 to fall 1943, … Continued
Alex Dunlap, a payload specialist for the NASA space flight program, received the MD from UT in 1996 (he had received the DVM from LSU in 1989). In 1991 he served as a Biospecimen Sharing Program team member and a project veterinarian during Spacelab Life Sciences-1 (STS-40); post flight he performed delayed flight profile tests … Continued
In 1927–28, the first year future UT President Andy Holt taught high school, Tom Dunlap was a member of his class in trigonometry at Humboldt High School. He earned the baccalaureate degree from UT in 1933 and a law degree in 1935. He was the recipient of a $25 Faculty Freshman Scholarship award and went … Continued
Dr. Durand joined the faculty of the university’s Department of Geography in 1944 where he served until his retirement in 1969. He was internationally renowned as an agricultural and economic geographer and a leading authority on the dairy industry. He served as editor of the Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters … Continued
From the October 5, 1935, North Carolina football game until his death in 1976 (except for his time of service during World War II), Knoxville News-Sentinel cartoonist Bill Dyer (1913–76) provided a game summary in cartoon format on the front page of the Sunday sports section of the newspaper.
Dr. Archie Dykes became chancellor of the Knoxville campus September 1, 1971, after having served for four years as chancellor of the Martin campus. Born in 1931 in Rogersville and reared in Church Hill, he earned both the bachelor’s degree (1952) and master’s (1956) degree at East Tennessee State University and the doctorate in educational … Continued
Bins for collection of unwanted, obsolete, or nonworking electronic devices were installed in February 2012 in five locations. The bins were created from old, unwanted filing cabinets that otherwise would have been sold as scrap metal. The sheet metal shop of Facilities Services cut appropriate holes to allow a variety of different devices to be … Continued
Although substantial numbers of faculty and administrators had used e-mail on UT computers beginning in 1975, all students were offered e-mail accounts in 1989 through Computer Access for Education (CAFÉ) accounts. During 1998 summer orientation, students were introduced to the new graphic-based e-mail package Webmail, which allowed UT UNIX account holders to access their e-mail … Continued
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The Early Learning Center for Research and Practice began in 1927 as a nursery school program operating in the Home Economics Building as an outgrowth of child care courses begun in 1922. In 1937 a new nursery school building opened at 1206 White Avenue, which is in use within the program today. The nursery school … Continued