In fall 1983 Chancellor Jack Reese accepted three framed prints by Malaysian artists given to UT’s International Hall of Fame in the university center. The prints were presented by Siva Muthaly, sophomore in business administration; Adrian Narayanan, freshman in business administration, and Rama Muthaly, a Malaysian banker.

The lush Opryland Hotel conservatories are the work of Hollis Malone, 1970 UT graduate of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Malone became chief horticulturist for the theme park Opryland USA in 1972 and subsequently for the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. He worked with the original hotel architects to create a unique indoor landscape … Continued

Maloney Point, an elevation of two thousand feet in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is named for this 1898 engineering graduate of the university. He served in the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico and in the Philippines from 1899 until 1901. In 1911 Governor Ben Hooper appointed him Adjutant General of the National Guard, … Continued

The research laboratories in Dabney Hall are named for Gleb Mamantov, internationally recognized chemist in molten salt chemistry, who joined the university faculty as assistant professor of chemistry in 1961 and served as head of the Chemistry Department from 1979 until his death in 1995. The son of two physicians, Mamantov was born in Kapsava, … Continued

In 1909 the Orange and White reported that E. B. Proctor (’07) had toured Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave, where he discovered that, while there were monuments (piles of cave rocks with signs) for Vanderbilt, Kentucky State, Sewanee, and many other universities, there was none for UT. He prepared a 12-inch sign with raised letters with the … Continued

The wooly mammoth’s tusk at the Frank H. McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture was a gift, through the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, of five UT students who spent the summer of 1956 working in Alaska in a gold mine. Knox Williams, Gene Fair, John D’Armand, George Dominick, and Paul Dominick drove … Continued

At the June 1970 meeting of the board of trustees, President-elect Edward Boling announced a “self study” of all aspects of the university system, which would lead to a program of Management by Objective techniques that would clarify the bounds of responsibility of employees at all levels and promote harmony through involvement. It would also … Continued

First-year honors students are eligible to be considered for a four-year Peyton Manning Scholarship, established in 1998. The scholarships are funded by an endowment created from gifts to the university garnered from Manning’s academic awards, the UT Athletics Department’s corporate matching program, and other private gifts. During his four-year career at UT, $165,000 in scholarship … Continued

UT quarterback (1994–97) and honors student (elected to Phi Beta Kappa), Peyton Manning graduated in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in speech communication (then in the College of Arts and Sciences). He was the number 1 draft pick in the NFL (going to the Indianapolis Colts) in 1998. The street leading from Volunteer Boulevard to … Continued

The UT Map Library, one of the most extensive in the nation, was moved from Alumni Memorial Building and the care of the Geography Department to the care of the UT Libraries in 1989. The library began under the direction of Dr. Robert Long of the Geography Department in 1967 as a way to organize … Continued