The Knoxville-Oak Ridge Regional Network went online in spring 1996. KORRnet operated as an independent, nonprofit, community electronic network serving a multiple-county region in East Tennessee. It was established through UT and originally resided on campus. It operated an independent, nonprofit portal to web-based resources, which in fall 2005 was renamed DiscoverET.org. KORRnet provided civic, … Continued
Andrew J. Kozar joined the UT football team in 1948 and played as fullback on the 1951 championship team. In 1952 he was named fullback on the All-Southeastern Conference first team. He received the bachelor’s degree in 1953 and was drafted by the Chicago Bears. Before he could report to the Bears, he was called … Continued
UT’s CRAY XT5 supercomputer system was initially funded by a $65 million grant to UT from the National Science Foundation. It first entered operation in 2007 and expanded through planned upgrades, which increased its speed and power. In June 2009 it officially became the world’s most powerful academic supercomputer. In October 2009 it was the … Continued
Dr. Kratz joined the faculty of the university’s Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages in 1965 and served as its head from 1972 to 1987. He retired from the faculty in 1992. For five years, he served as assistant editor for the Merriam-Webster Third International Dictionary. A specialist in philology, lexicography, and medieval literature, his … Continued
A 1915 honors graduate of the university, Joseph Wood Krutch went on to earn the master’s and doctoral degrees from Columbia University. He served in World War I, and in 1920 became associate professor at Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute. He taught at Vassar and in the English Department at Columbia for several years, being named in … Continued
Abbreviation for Kappa Tau Alpha, honorary society for journalism studies.
In 1924 the Middle Tennessee Experiment Station (now the Middle Tennessee Research and Education Center) established a 12-acre field of kudzu (Pueraria lobata or P. thunbergiana) as a “promising pasture and soil improvement crop.”
Minority Student Affairs first organized a Kwanzaa celebration in 2004. Kwanzaa comes from the Swahili word kwanza, which means “first.”
The Lady Vol Hall of Fame was initiated in 2001. In November 2014 the Athletics Department announced that it would no longer recognize female athletes by induction into the Lady Vol Hall of Fame, a corollary to combining the men’s and women’s athletics programs. The hall of fame had annually inducted up to 10 female … Continued
The name of all women’s intercollegiate athletic teams was established as Lady Vols in 1976 by newly appointed Director of Women’s Athletics Gloria Ray. Previously, when the sports club program was coordinated by the Women’s Physical Education Department, the teams had generally been referred to as Volettes. In November 2014 the Athletics Department announced that … Continued