In summer 1985 the Department of Conferences paid for conversion of six rooms into two-bedroom apartments on the second floor of the hall. Most of the guests envisioned to stay in the apartments were to be attending conferences or to be guest speakers or to be guests of colleges.

A course in bee culture was initiated in 1875. An apiary was constructed on the UT farm for instructional purposes, with E. Dean Dow supervising the work. Several colonies of Italian and black bees and some Italian queen bees were acquired. In 1919, under its contract with the federal Board for Vocational Training (later assumed … Continued

In the mid-1990s, UT professors of entomology and plant pathology Robert Trigiano and Mark Windham discovered a single dogwood anthracnose-resistant tree in Catoctin National Park near Camp David. They cultivated saplings from the tree and developed the Appalachian Spring Dogwood, which is resistant to anthracnose. That cultivar was available for sale in 1999. In 2002 … Continued

The Horticulture Club held the first Apple Festival in 1951. The festival was an annual event for several years. Entertainment consisted of square and round dancing and a faculty skit; refreshments were apple cider and ginger snaps. Sororities and the Independent Students Association nominated women for the post of Apple Queen. The first Apple Queen … Continued

The university outsourced its dining services function in 1996 by awarding a contract to food service provider ARAMARK, to begin in 1997. Vice Chancellor for Administration and Student Affairs Philip Scheurer indicated in a Daily Beacon article that he had chosen ARAMARK as UT’s food service provider because of the quality of services they were … Continued

The UT Arboretum at Oak Ridge is a project of the Forest Resources Research and Education Center, which occupies 2,260 acres. The 250-acre arboretum area has over twenty-five hundred native and exotic woody plant specimens that represent eight hundred species, varieties, and cultivars. It hosts more than thirty thousand visitors annually. The nature sanctuary has … Continued

The ARL was formed in 2002 as a public archaeology unit within the Department of Anthropology. It is a research, consulting, and cultural resource assessment center dedicated to the conduct of high quality, timely work for government agencies and private agencies, while providing a practical institutional mechanism for student experiential learning and continuing education. One … Continued

In 1935 two rooms in Ferris Hall were allocated to a fledgling museum of archaeology and presided over by T. M. N. Lewis, UT professor of anthropology. Parts of the collection of artifacts, stored in the basement of West Sophronia Strong Hall, were on display in the rooms. The first room displayed jewelry, bowls, pots, … Continued

In 1910, with the collegiate-gothic design of the Carnegie Library (now Austin Peay), Grant C. Miller (1870–1956) of Patton and Miller essentially established the architectural style of the campus as Collegiate Gothic. It was Miller who worked most closely with Ayres as a member of the firm of Miller, Fullenwider & Dowling. In 1925 President … Continued

The Construction Specifications Institute awarded the UT architecture team of Jared Pohl, Katie Lewis, Ryan Stechmann, Steven Whitmore, and Phillip Geiman first place in its national competition to design an energy-efficient Habitat for Humanity house in September 2013. In two weeks during the summer, the students designed a three-bedroom, 1,300-square-foot house that complied with energy-efficiency … Continued