Florence McIntyre was the first female to register in the Academic College of the university (fall 1893) after the board of trustees granted full admission to women.

Steve Allen “Toby” McKenzie was born in Cleveland, Tennessee, and graduated from Bradley Central High School, where he played on the football team. He and his family lived in a public housing project. He started on his entrepreneurial career by delivering newspapers in Cleveland. He and his first wife, Brenda Lawson, started a rent-to-own chain … Continued

Dr. McLaren joined the faculty of the university’s Animal Husbandry Department in 1966, following 17 years of service in the university’s Agricultural Experiment Stations at Ames Plantation near Grand Junction and at Spring Hill. From 1987 to 1989, he was acting department head. He retired in 1989. McLaren held a joint appointment in the College … Continued

Rear Admiral Ridley McLean attended UT from 1888 to 1890, before entering the Naval Academy, from which he graduated in 1894. He is best known as Lieutenant Ridley McLean, the author of the Bluejacket’s Manual, a primer on uniforms, ranks, rates, and other essential information for all naval personnel from seaman to admiral. His manual … Continued

In 2006 the State authorized a $24,950,000 capital project completely to renovate the 1959 Brehm Animal Sciences Building (113,000 square feet) on the agriculture campus and to raze and rebuild the connected McLeod Hall (36,000 square feet), making an Animal Science and Food Sciences Complex. McLeod was razed in 2008. Architects for the project were … Continued

Born in Ireland, George McNutt immigrated to Virginia and then relocated to the Territory South of the River Ohio. In 1794 the territorial legislature named him as one of the trustees of Blount College in the charter for the institution. He served as a member of the first Knox County Court and a commissioner of … Continued

An expense account management analyst with a Nashville insurance company, Elaine McReynolds was attending evening classes at the University of Tennessee in Nashville when she was appointed in July 1975 to a new UT Board of Trustees position created for Davidson County. She received a degree from the University of Tennessee in Nashville in fall … Continued

Joseph Walker McSpadden attended UT beginning in November 1893. He graduated in 1899 and moved to New York. He and two other UT alumni (Marshall Lawrence Havey and John S. Coppers) organized a U.T.N.Y. luncheon group in 1899, which was expanded to become the Tennessee Society of New York in 1905. McSpadden was a prolific … Continued

Hap McSween joined the faculty of the Geology Department (now the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences) in 1977. He earned the BS in chemistry from the Citadel (1967), attending as a Daniel Scholar; the MS in geology from the University of Georgia (1969), where he was a NASA graduate fellow; and the PhD in … Continued

ME4UT was established in 2000 to assist the Office of Undergraduate Admissions in recruiting and building relationships with African American students interested in attending the University of Tennessee. Students in the organization committed 60 volunteer hours each year and facilitated three overnight campus visits for minority students and their families. Students helped organize the events … Continued