In order to have sufficient land for the golf practice facility, UT asked in 2004 that Knox County transfer to it seven acres of land contiguous (to the south) to UT property. In return UT offered to provide an easement along the water edge from, essentially, the Buck Karnes Bridge to the tip of the … Continued

UT announced in January 1965 that it had entered into an agreement with Duggan and Associates to build, finance, and lease back to UT married student apartments on Sutherland Avenue, with the buildings to be turned over to UT after 30 years. Duggan and Associates became Walker Graham and Associates after UT signed the contract. … Continued

The College of Home Economics (later, College of Human Ecology, presently College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) established a day care center at the Golf Range Apartments as a child-care “laboratory” for instruction and research in 1966. The program was extended to full-day day care in 1982 and renamed a Child Development Laboratory. In … Continued

Dr. Ralfael Gonzales earned the BSEE degree from the University of Miami in 1965 and the ME and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering (now Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) in 1970. He established UT’s Image … Continued

Students were first given a holiday on Good Friday on April 17, 1908, but Saturday classes were held as usual. In March 1913 the faculty voted to give both Friday and Saturday as holidays and to make the two-day recess permanent.

UT and Eastman Chemical Company teamed up in 1993 to create the nation’s largest stadium recycling program, with the target being the hundreds of thousands of plastic cups tossed away by fans at UT football and basketball programs. Special recycling containers were placed first in and around Neyland Stadium and then in other athletic venues … Continued

When it opened in 1997, the Goodfriend Tennis Center contained coaches’ offices, locker rooms, four tennis courts, capacity for five hundred fans, a reception area, and a concession stand. Both the men’s and women’s intercollegiate tennis teams use the center. Made possible through a gift from Robert Goodfriend, then president and CEO of Goody’s Clothing … Continued

Albert Virgil Goodpasture is best known as the author of the school text History of Tennessee, coauthored with William R. Garrett. He earned the bachelor’s degree from UT in 1875, a law degree from Vanderbilt in in 1877, and a master’s in history from UT in 1882. He moved to Montgomery County, where he became … Continued

Henry Goodrich earned the BS in civil engineering from UT in 1943. Upon discharge from the Navy Engineer Corps, he accepted a position with Rust Engineering Company in Birmingham. In 1968 he joined Inland Container Corporation as executive vice president and director and became president and CEO in 1970, a position he held until 1979. … Continued

John Googin earned the PhD in physical chemistry from UT in 1953. (His undergraduate degree was from Bates College in 1944.) He served as junior chemist on the Manhattan Project’s Eastman Kodak Company team from 1943 to 1947.  He then served at Oak Ridge with Union Carbide as senior scientist in the Development Division, Y-12 … Continued