Lambda Theta Alpha, the first sorority created specifically to serve the needs of Latinas in the United States, was established in 1975 at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. The Gamma Gamma chapter was chartered at UT on April 28, 2001. The colors are burgundy and gray, and the mascot is the Lambda Lady. Its … Continued

Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity Inc. was founded December 1, 1975, at Kean College in Union, New Jersey. In fall 2001 a group was formed to pursue acquisition of a chapter at UT, and a colony was established at UT on March 15, 2003. The mascot of the fraternity is El Conquistador, and the fraternity … Continued

The Lame Monkey Manifesto was an aboveground underground newspaper. It had no support from UT but operated to some degree on campus, collecting student evaluations of professors each term in booths in the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center. It first published student evaluations of professors in fall 1986.

In 1885 the US Department of Agriculture Commissioner hired Maine botanist Frank Lamson-Scribner as the first federal plant pathologist with the US Department of Agriculture. By the time he joined the faculty at UT in 1888, he had 73 professional publications to his credit and had had a genus of grass (Scribneria) named for him. … Continued

In 1961–62, UT celebrated the centennial anniversary of the establishment of land-grant institutions. UT produced a movie, UT and You, and the Alumni Association awarded 50 Centennial one-year scholarships.

For some time after being admitted to the Union in 1796, Tennessee was involved in a dispute with the United States and North Carolina over the title to land within Tennessee borders. In 1806 an agreement was reached under which the United States relinquished all claims to land in Tennessee lying outside a “Congressional Reservation” … Continued

In 1822 East Tennessee College, Cumberland College (recipient of the Middle Tennessee share of lands under the Compact of 1806) and the University of North Carolina participated in an agreement between the Tennessee legislature and the University of North Carolina. The Compact of 1806 had guaranteed the rights of veterans of North Carolina’s Revolutionary army … Continued

On January 16, 1869, the university (then East Tennessee University) was designated as Tennessee’s “Land-Grant College,” under the Morrill Act of 1862. (When the act was signed into law by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862, Tennessee was part of the Confederacy, and the act expressly prohibited designating a college in a state “in a … Continued

On January 19, 1869, a certified copy of the act passed January 16 by the Tennessee legislature designating the university (then East Tennessee University) as the recipient of the land-grant endowment of the Morrill Act of 1862 was presented to the board of trustees, and the trustees voted to accept the act as an amendment … Continued

In June 2006 Robert Wegener of Machinery, Illinois, made UT a gift of an original receipt for land-grant script to benefit the institution. The receipt is in the University Archives.