In fall 1963 a 10-year Ford Foundation grant, totaling $750,000, provided funding to allow 20 Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists to spend 20 percent of their time as full-fledged, albeit part-time, faculty at UT. The arrangement also allowed UT graduate students in physics, chemistry, chemical and metallurgical engineering, and mathematics to do research at ORNL … Continued

Former US President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (president, 1974–77), delivered the MBA Symposium Lecture on October 16, 1985, in which he discussed the national business climate. The lecture was held in the Clarence Brown Theatre. He additionally visited an MBA class during his Oct. 15–16 visit.

The curriculum adopted by East Tennessee College on May 9, 1829, included, in the senior year, coursework in Hebrew or French Language, at the option of the student. The 1840 catalog listed the senior year options as Hebrew, Spanish, and civil engineering.

The Tennessee Forest Products Center provides a research, development, and demonstration program designed to ensure the sustainable growth of the forestry industry. It is headquartered in a building completed in 2001 (dedicated in 2002). At the dedication a featured aspect of the facility was a sculpture depicting the 95 counties of Tennessee—each in a different … Continued

The Forestry Experiment Station was organized on the same basis as other stations in 1972, with headquarters at the UT Arboretum located on part of the 2,260-acre Oak Ridge Forest. The name was changed to Forest Resources Research and Education Center in 2005. Forestry field units in East and Middle Tennessee comprise the center and … Continued

In June 1985 local authorities learned of a bogus driver’s license ring operating at UT and being run by UT students. Up to two hundred driver’s licenses were manufactured by three students in the Reese Hall dormitory room of Thomas Wayne Hodge, a freshman in business. Hodge and Paul Reyes, a freshman in architecture, were … Continued

J. M. Forgey was employed as a football team trainer in approximately 1910. When Robert Neyland became head coach in 1926, he obtained a team physician and an expert trainer (Mickey O’Brien) who took over part of Forgey’s duties, and Forgey continued his work in rubbing down players and assisting with training activities until his … Continued

Bruce Foster studied graphic art and design at UT as a member of the class of 1976. He then worked as a graphic designer and learned his craft of pop-up and movable books by taking pop-up books apart. He began a pop-up book career in 1989 while still juggling a “day job” as graphic designer. … Continued

The Foundation for Interior Design Research and Education (FIDER) is the accrediting agency for interior design programs. The Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), the American Institute of Interior Designers (AID), and the National Society of Interior Designers (NSID) established it in 1970. (AID and NSID merged in 1975 to form the American Society of Interior … Continued

The university has had gift clubs and recognition societies that recognize donors to the institution since 1960. In 1982 the Founders Society was established, recognizing donors of $1 million or more. In 2001 the society’s scope was changed to recognizing donors of $1 million to $5 million.