As a pilot project for the 1983–84 academic year and as a regular program for 1984–85, the Bursar’s Office offered a monthly payment program for tuition, fees, room, and board. Approximately 40 students participated in the pilot project in 1983–84. The total due was divided into 10 payments, with the first payment being due in … Continued

Some one hundred moon rocks from the various NASA missions owned by NASA and loaned to 120 scientists to study through the Lunar Sample Analysis Program came to UT in 1974 for study by Earth and Planetary Sciences Professor Lawrence Taylor. An auctioneer in Paris offered to pay $100 million per gram for any authenticated … Continued

Patrick George Mooney served as the “Voice of the Vols” from 1952 to 1967 and in 1962 started the Vol Navy when he brought his little white runabout motorboat to campus, tied it to a tree, and walked over the rocks and through long grass to access the stadium on game days. Mooney was a … Continued

Charles Moore, a 150-pound right guard on Tennessee’s inaugural 1891 football team, selected the school colors of orange and white in 1889 when he was president of the university’s Athletic Association.

Born in Cocke County (in Slabtown) and christened Mary Willie Grace Moore, Grace Moore spent her youth in Jellico. She attended Ward-Belmont College briefly and then continued her musical training in Washington and New York. A soprano who became known as the “Tennessee Nightingale,” she made her Broadway debut in 1920 in the musical Hitchy … Continued

In January 1883 the Philomathesian Literary Society initiated, as part of its society activity, a moot court association. Although its purpose was largely entertainment rather than legal training, it is the forerunner of the moot court activities that are an integral part of the College of Law. Moot court competitions began soon after the establishment … Continued

In 1993 UT won its first national Prince Evidence Moot Court Competition. In 2000 and 2001, teams from the UT Law School won back-to-back national championships in the competition. In 2010 third-year law student John Lee and second-year law student Stephen Adams constituted the UT Moot Court team that won the 2010 Giles Sutherland Rich … Continued

Horace Morelock is best known for his work in making the mountain country of Texas into the Big Bend National Park, the subject of his book, Big Bend Panorama (ca 1953). A UT graduate (1902), he was also Knoxville General Hospital’s first typhoid fever patient. Due to graduate from UT with honors in four days, … Continued

On November 1, 1919, the cornerstone was laid for the new Agricultural Building, which would be named Morgan Hall for President Harcourt Morgan in 1937. Into the cornerstone were placed the register of the university, a copy of the student newspaper, a copy of the UT Farmer, a list of the members of the East … Continued