In 1973 the board authorized the UT administration to arrange a land swap with the State of Tennessee. The university would provide (1) the land already in use for that portion of Neyland Drive going through the agriculture campus, plus additional land to four-lane the drive; (2) the land required to relocate Cherokee Trail, placing … Continued

In 2000 a 529-acre farm near Walland was purchased to replace the 188-acre dairy farm operated on the Cherokee Farm in Knoxville. The new research dairy officially opened on September 30, 2011. An open house on October 2 drew a crowd in excess of one thousand. The research farm is designed to support a herd … Continued

On January 29, 1840, the Tennessee General Assembly passed an act changing the name of East Tennessee College to East Tennessee University. The act gave the trustees “the right, power, and privilege of holding real and personal property for the support of schools for the learned professions, to grant and confer medical degrees, [and to] … Continued

From 1921 until the early 1960s, an Easter sunrise service was held annually in Ayres Tower (occasionally in front of Ayres). Several local churches participated in the event. Thanksgiving sunrise services were also held in the 1920s and ’30s and moved to Alumni Memorial in 1937.

Dr. Eaves received the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Oklahoma before joining the UT mathematics faculty in 1930. By 1933 the Great Depression seriously affected enrollment, and at the end of spring quarter 1933, Eaves was laid off, being the last faculty member employed. He had been working on his … Continued

Dr. Luke Ebersole joined the faculty of the Sociology Department of the university in 1952. He served as director of graduate studies in the department (1960–66); assistant dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1966–68); associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts (1968–70); associate vice chancellor for academic affairs (1970–72); and vice chancellor for … Continued

Ed Murphy, SEC Track champion in the mile run in 1955, 1956, 1957, and Cross-Country champion in 1956, initiated the Ed Murphy Award for the best performance in the previous year’s track and field season in 1965. Murphy was a 1956 All-American.

In 1941 the Orange and White reported that two sculptures by William Edmondson (although the paper misspelled his name Edmiston) of Nashville had been acquired from the WPA by the Related Arts Department of the College of Home Economics. Edmondson, of Nashville, was a self-taught sculptor. In 1937 he became the first African American to … Continued

The Education Club was organized in fall 1916 to bring students in education into closer contact with professors and with current educational problems.

The Educational Advancement Program and the Ronald McNair Post Baccalaureate Program, which this office also administers, are federally funded programs for disadvantaged students. The McNair program is named for astronaut Ronald McNair, who died aboard Challenger in 1986. The original TRIO of programs was the Upward Bound Program, which emerged from the Economic Opportunity Act … Continued