From 1870 through 1889, all students (known as cadets) were required to take military instruction. From 1889 to 1967, all male freshmen and sophomores were required to take military instruction (after 1917, ROTC). In 1961 the Faculty Senate took no action on a proposal to make the first two years of ROTC voluntary. In 1967 … Continued

Professor Miller joined the faculty of the UT College of Law in 1947 as professor of law and director of the Legal Clinic. He retired as director of the Legal Clinic in 1975 and from the law faculty in 1976. He achieved a national reputation in clinical education, having helped to found the first two … Continued

Millie (short for Millennium), the nation’s first cloned Jersey calf and the nation’s first cloned animal using standard cell-culturing techniques, was born August 23, 2000, at 4:20 a.m. and died June 4, 2001, from the bacterial infection clostridium, a common occurrence in sheep, but rare in cattle. Millie had been vaccinated against clostridium, but for … Continued

On March 15, 1917, President Ayres received a telegram from Dr. H. A. Morgan, who was in Nashville lobbying for the bill authorizing $1 million in bonds for UT and additionally authorizing a revenue stream to UT to pay off the bonds and provide operating dollars. The telegram said: “Senate voted bond bill 27 for, … Continued

UT graduate (BS in education) F. Ann Millner became the 11th president of Weber State University (Utah) in 2002—the first woman to head the institution. In addition to the UT bachelor’s degree, she earned the MS in allied health education and management from Southwest Texas State University and the EdD in educational administration from Brigham … Continued

In 1993 Margaret Klein, wife of history professor Milton M. Klein, established the Milton M. Klein History Studies Endowment to honor him and his work. In early 2000, when Dr. Susan Stussy died at age 54 of breast cancer, Klein learned that she had made a generous gift to the endowment, allowing extension of the … Continued

Dr. Emmitt Ohmer Milton joined the faculty of the Department of Psychology in 1946, and in 1965 he became the founding director of the Learning Research Center, a position he held until his retirement in 1983. He achieved a reputation on campus as an unusually creative teacher of psychology, and he gained international recognition for … Continued

In August 2004 Dr. Min H. Kao entered into a memorandum of understanding with the university that a 150,000-square-foot building costing no more than $250 per square foot would be built and exclusively used by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with Kao contributing the lesser of $12.5 million or one-third of the cost … Continued

Roy Caughron, a 54-year-old Facilities Services employee, died in the Min Kao Building January 11, 2013, from an apparent heart attack.

Rhodes Scholar Nancy-Ann Min earned the BA degree (College Scholar, with a major in history) in 1978, with a perfect 4.0 average. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was named a Phi Kappa Phi scholar. She was elected president of the Student Government Association, the first woman to hold that office, running on … Continued