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.

Dr. Jack Dongarra, computer science, was elected to the academy in 2001.

Dr. Gerald Mahan, physics, was elected to the academy in 1995.

Angie Warren Perkins was named acting dean of the Women’s Department in 1898. She served without compensation.

In 1910 both the first male and the first female agricultural agents were employed by what is now UT Extension. On December 10, 1910, Virginia Moore was employed to be the first agent to work with women and girls in developing canning clubs. Her salary was $1,200. Canning clubs began in 1911.

Isabel Robinson graduated from the College of Agriculture in 1921.

Madge Harrison of Memphis, who attended the UT Martin Branch and graduated from UT Knoxville in 1940, served as the first female Alumni Association president in 1972–73. She was also the first chair of the Women’s Activities Committee. During her term of office, the association sponsored its first alumni tours and established the Undergraduate Alumni … Continued

Chanelle Price, former Lady Vol Track standout, became the first American woman to win the women’s 800-meter world indoor title on March 9, 2014, in Sopot, Poland. She finished with a personal best time of 2 minutes and .09 seconds.

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.

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