The UT Institute of Agriculture partnered with the Society of St. Andrew, a national ecumenical organization that provides fresh produce to food shelters, and kicked off its Grow More Give More campaign to collect fresh produce to be donated to food banks in May 2013. UTIA accepted donations of fresh produce at the UT Farmers … Continued

Ernie Grunfeld, born in Romania to Holocaust survivors, came to the United States with his parents at an age nine and grew up in Forest Hills, New York, where he became an outstanding high school basketball forward. He enrolled at UT in 1973. In the ensuing four years, he set a school scoring record of … Continued

Abbreviation for Graduate Student Association.

A “guaranteed” scholarship is one that any student who meets the requirements published by UT will be offered. (In the case of university scholarships, students awarded the Volunteer Scholarship are not eligible for an additional university scholarship award.)

In 1934 the ROTC military sponsors formed a “guides” chapter hoping to be granted a charter by the national Guidon Society. Membership in the group was limited to the women chosen as ROTC sponsors each year. The society was called Guides in 1935–40 and Guidon in 1940. In 1944 the term was dropped in favor … Continued

UT’s chapter of Amnesty International held a Gulu Walk on October 21, 2006, to promote awareness of a two-decade-long war in the East African country of Uganda. Walkers sought to bring two situations to the attention of people on campus for the UT-Alabama football game—the abductions of some twenty thousand children and the two million … Continued

Alfred K. Guthe joined the faculty of the university in 1961. He served as head of the Anthropology Department and was named the first director of the Frank H. McClung Museum. Anthropology and the museum were separated in 1971. Guthe remained director of the museum until 1978, when he returned to full-time teaching in the … Continued

Prior to 1925 male students were allowed to wear any type of gym suit they chose to purchase. In 1925 a standard uniform of orange trunks and white jerseys was adopted and required.

UT’s first gymnasium was destroyed during the Civil War. Basketball and other gymnasium functions took place in the YWCA building from 1891 to 1923, when Jefferson Hall (second of the name) was used for basketball and student events. In 1924 UT began construction on a gymnasium between Middle Drive and Estabrook Road near Shields-Watkins Field … Continued

In 1929 a six-man gymnastics team made its first appearance at the Relay Carnival. In spring 1930 it first performed between the halves of the Harriman High-Rockwood High basketball game and performed in Johnson City, Rutledge, and elsewhere in addition to exhibitions on campus in Jefferson Hall. The final performance of the year was during … Continued