In November 2014 the SGA passed a revised version of a previous bill mandating the designation of at least one gender neutral bathroom in every campus building. The bill (which passed 47 for, 10 abstaining, and 12 against) calls for one gender neutral bathroom in every current UT building except Greek life buildings and newly … Continued

In December 1972 Vice Chancellor Luke Ebersole issued a statement supporting the recommendations of the Task Force on Women and urged that every effort be made to utilize language terms that obviously included both sexes. In May 1973 the Daily Beacon instituted an experimental (to run through January 31, 1974) practice of using the genderless … Continued

Annually, at the Chancellor’s Honors Banquet, the Commission For Blacks presents the Gene Mitchell Gray Pioneer Award to a student recognized for proactive contributions to promoting cultural diversity. In 1998 the inaugural award was presented posthumously to Gray (who died in 1989) and was received on his behalf by members of his family.

The UT Research Foundation created Genera Energy LLC as a for-profit limited liability company in 2008 as a vehicle to carry out the cellulosic biorefinery activities and capital projects of the UT Biofuels Initiative. Genera was charged with building a pilot plant to test the commercial feasibility of using switchgrass as the biomass to produce … Continued

In 2011 Genera Energy began soliciting investors for a venture capital fund targeting corporations involved in bioenergy innovations. The goal was to raise $15 million from Tennessee individual investors, as well as private equity entities and insurance and pension-fund managers. Genera described potential investment candidates as “deploying specific technologies” related to supply-chain process and technology … Continued

During its tenure, the General Education Board was a major force in improving public and higher education, especially in the South. Beginning in 1905 the board financed a professor of secondary education (Philander P. Claxton) at UT, charged to promote public schools in the state. John D. Rockefeller Sr. established the General Education Board in … Continued

See Earth and Planetary Sciences Building.

On April 14, 1950, faculty and students of the College of Law moved into the new building on Cumberland Avenue that was designed and built for law school purposes. The dedication brochure promised that “[w]ithin its Collegiate Gothic walls of brick and native Tennessee stone will be found both beauty and utility.” Tennessee Supreme Court … Continued

The Community Partnership Center (part of the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment) received a $150,000 grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust to prepare a campus heritage plan in 2006. The Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University was contracted by the CPC for the project. Tim Ezzell, director of the … Continued

“Evening Primrose” is blamed for unexplained footsteps in Hoskins Library; books falling off shelves; elevators that move from floor to floor without riders; and odors of cornbread baking, beef stew, and cookies that occasionally waft through the building. According to Daphne Townsend, a library employee, the ghost is named after John Collier’s (1901–80) short story … Continued