In spring 2000 the notion of an online college for distance education emerged as a possibility from the Governor’s Commission on Excellence and was embraced by UT President Wade Gilley as a means of improving UT’s reputation and state education statistics, as well as making higher education more available in Tennessee. Sammie Lynn Puett, then … Continued

A team of seven students (Levi Hooten, Daniel Luster, Ramune Matuliauskaite-Morales, Samuel Mortimer, Bethany Wild, Joan Monaco, and Thomas Herbert) won top honors in 2009 at the Environmental Protection Agency’s National Sustainable Design Expo held in Washington, DC, in April 2009. The competition focused on benefiting people, promoting prosperity, and protecting the environment (P3). Around … Continued

The Division of Student Life’s Office of New Student and Family Programs exists to connect new students to the university community, inform students and parents of university resources, and create a system of support for families in order to impact student success from orientation through graduation. The office oversees all orientation and transition programs for … Continued

Newfound Press is the University Libraries’ digital library press that takes advantage of the opportunity to make scholarly and specialized resources widely available at a reasonable cost. It publishes peer-reviewed works meriting wide dissemination that are unlikely candidates for market-driven presses because of their narrow focus or innovative format. Its first book, Good Gracious, Miss … Continued

In 1995 the City of Knoxville announced plans to develop the waterfront from the east of First Creek to Second Creek, including a greenway that would additionally extend from Second Creek to the Alcoa Highway Bridge and offer a connection to the Third Creek Greenway.

UT provided the land for the widening of Neyland Drive to four lanes in 1972.

The “university district intersection” on Neyland Drive was constructed in 1966. The East Tennessee AAA opposed the approved plan because it required left-hand turns across traffic. AAA preferred a system of ramps.

Several months before his death in 1962, Robert R. Neyland, then athletics director, started work on a plan that would provide for supporters of UT athletic programs to bolster the academic scholarships available at the institution. His goal was to establish four-year academic scholarships that could be used to recruit excellent students to the institution. … Continued

On July 20, 1920, the UT trustees voted to build a permanent grandstand, projected at a total cost of $20,000, at Shields-Watkins Field, when the field was completed. The grandstand was erected on the west side in 1921 and had 17 rows and seating for 3,200. In 1925, under the leadership of Nathan Dougherty, engineering … Continued