Bob Johnson was Tennessee Head Football Coach Doug Dickey’s first recruit in 1963. He was also the first ever draft pick of the Cincinnati Bengals and is the only Bengals player to have his number (54) retired. At UT he earned all SEC and All-American honors in 1966 and 1967. In 1967 he won the … Continued

Frances Johnston was assistant registrar at UT in the 1930s and 1940s (she retired in 1949) and was affectionately known by students and alumni as Miss Johnnie. As a hobby, she wrote songs—both music and lyrics. Her To Tennessee was runner-up in the Alma Mater Contest, and it, along with 11 other of her songs, … Continued

The Joint Institute for Materials Science is a 2005 expansion of the Tennessee Advanced Materials Laboratory, created by UT in 2000 as one of nine statewide centers of excellence. TAML, directed by Dr. Ward Plummer of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was highly successful in leveraging its initial $3 million investment and in drawing … Continued

In 1963 Dr. Andy Holt, Dr. Alexander Hollaender, and Dr. R. C. “Clint” Fuller from the University of Massachusetts Amherst began making plans for the creation of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences that would link the academic resources of UT to the research labs of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hollaender was able to … Continued

JICS was established in 1991 through the UT Science Alliance Center of Excellence and ORNL. It serves researchers from UT, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and private industry who utilize parallel computing by combining resources of UT and ORNL. In August 2002 ground was broken for a 52,000-square-foot building, funded by the State of Tennessee … Continued

A pact joining UT, TVA, and ORNL in research and education on energy and environmental issues was signed October 31, 1991, by the heads of the three participating institutions. The pact established the Joint Institute for Energy and Environment, the mission of which was to promote and develop support for cooperative research and educational programs … Continued

Oak Ridge National Laboratory historians document 1979 as the turning point for the user-facility concept at Oak Ridge. That year, a change in Department of Energy policies opened facilities to outside collaborators. A government-owned building was constructed at ORNL for use by visitors to the Hollifield Heavy Ion Research Facility, but an additional building was … Continued

In February 1988 UT, ORNL, and the Department of Energy signed a memorandum of understanding creating the Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences. The institute is the intellectual and user-support center for research scientists and engineers conducting research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Neutron Science facilities. The institute fosters new ideas and partnerships in neutron … Continued

The Joint University Center was established in 1970 to make available to adults in the Memphis area the combined resources of Memphis State University (now University of Memphis) and UT.