The Lindsay Young Beneficial Insects Laboratory, a part of Knoxville AgResearch, was dedicated May 20, 2005. The laboratory provides space and resources for raising predator beetles used to combat the hemlock wooly adelgid, first found in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2002. The four-year, $2 million project to establish the laboratory expanded it … Continued

In 1980 Lindsay Young, partner in the Knoxville law firm of McCampbell and Young, gave the university securities valued at $1 million in response to the university’s first National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant. His gift established endowed professorships to reward faculty who are outstanding teachers, researchers, and public servants. Ten awards are made … Continued

Prior to having an on-campus baseball field, UT teams played at Chilhowee Park, Caswell Park, and Shields-Watkins Field. Lindsey Nelson Stadium opened February 23, 1993 (Tennessee 14, East Tennessee State 5), with a permanent seating capacity of 2,300 (696 chair-back seats and 1,614 bench seats and grandstands along the right field line). In 1994 the … Continued

With the lowering of the legal age for consumption of alcohol to 18, representatives of the five UT campuses drafted a resolution in 1973 calling for allowing the possession of alcohol on campus and forwarded the resolution to the board of trustees. The board turned down the proposal, but students continued to contend that they … Continued

In winter quarter 1972, the Student Senate conducted a petition drive on campus as part of the community-wide effort to obtain a referendum on liquor-by-the-drink. The UT effort collected more signatures than any other group in Knoxville.

Hardy Liston Jr. became the first African American member of the UT Knoxville central administration when he was appointed assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of mechanical engineering effective July 1, 1970. He joined the faculty of North Carolina A&T in 1946 and advanced from instructor to chairman of the department. In 1969–70, … Continued

In 1952 the rooming house at 1215 White Avenue, operated by Mrs. B. C. Pruett, had its first international student boarder, Almado Garcia from Cuba. For the next decade, Mrs. Pruett’s rooming house was known as the “Little U.N.” as additional international students rented rooms. She began serving meals, and her specialties were the native … Continued

The Living Wage Coalition was composed of 17 student groups, headed by the Progressive Student Alliance, that worked in cooperation with the United Campus Workers to raise wages for UT employees.

Living-Learning Communities are residence-hall communities geared toward specific interests and majors that offer supplemental programming and faculty support. Each LLC occupies its own hallway or wing in a residence hall. The communities vary in size from fewer than a dozen to the largest, the Honors Community, with approximately three hundred. The first Living-Learning Community was … Continued

At the 1999 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, the Reverend Harold Middlebrook brought up an issue that had been gathering momentum among the Knoxville African American community—that although Peyton Manning did not win a national championship, a city street had been named for him, but neither Tee Martin, the quarterback of the 1998 championship team, … Continued