The Oak Ridge Forest is the headquarters of the Forestry Experiment Station. It consists of 2,260 acres near Oak Ridge.

At a dinner party one evening in 1945, following Dr. William Pollard’s return to the UT faculty after a two-year leave at Columbia University working on the Manhattan Project, Pollard discussed with Physics Department colleague Dr. Katherine Way the benefit of linking the valuable scientific resources developed in Oak Ridge as part of the Manhattan … Continued

On February 2, 1943, ground was broken for Clinton Laboratories, one of the national laboratories to be involved in developing nuclear fission required for wartime use in bomb making. The uranium-fueled atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, was powered by the output of Oak Ridge’s Y-12 and K-25 plants.  After World War … Continued

UT announced on January 20, 1999, that it would team with Battelle to bid for the $2.5 billion five-year management contract of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The UT-Battelle team was awarded the contract and assumed responsibility for the multipurpose lab on April 1, 2000. A separate limited liability company was formed by UT and … Continued

In 1945 UT began offering undergraduate classes at Oak Ridge through the University Extension Division and graduate classes through the regular departmental structure. By 1946 five hundred fifty-two students (400 undergraduate and 152 graduate students) were taking courses. Courses were taught by UT faculty, who commuted to Oak Ridge. Initially, the courses were geared to … Continued

B&W Y-12, a limited liability enterprise of the Babcock and Wilcox Company and Bechtel National Inc. was selected to operate the Y-12 National Security Complex for the National Nuclear Security Administration (an independent agency of the US Department of Energy) in 2000. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a manufacturing facility, and its programs include … Continued

Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek and Darrel Kohlhorst, B&W Y-12 president and general manager, signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2011, allowing for joint appointments of key researchers, engineers, executives, and staff between UT and Y-12. The agreement was the first for a National Nuclear Security Administration production site. The memorandum followed one signed in … Continued

The creation of UT’s Obesity Research Center was announced on August 24, 2007. The center was designed to bring together UT professors from disciplines across the campus to study the possible causes and treatments of obesity. The first codirectors were faculty members David Bassett, professor of exercise, sport, and leisure studies, and Naima Moustaid-Moussa, professor … Continued

One of Adolph Ochs’ two brothers, George Ochs, also carried the Knoxville Chronicle, beginning at the age of 7, working from 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. He continued to supplement the family income in this way until his junior year at East Tennessee University (UT), when he moved to Chattanooga with his family. He had … Continued

Adolph Ochs attended the university as a student in the preparatory division of East Tennessee University in 1869–70. Having gotten his start in the newspaper business at age 11 by carrying the Chronicle in Knoxville, to which city his family had moved following the Civil War, Ochs became a printer’s devil and then a reporter. … Continued