UT’s organic farm was begun in fall 2007, a project of the Institute of Agriculture. It is a 90-acre farm off John Sevier Highway that produces fruits and vegetables for both research and consumption.

In the 1976–77 academic year, seven women’s teams competed for the University of Tennessee. The sports were basketball, field hockey, gymnastics, swimming, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. These were the same seven sports that had been moved from club to institutional status in 1973 when UT first began to fund women’s athletics apart from … Continued

See Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

One of General Neyland’s seven game maxims is “Ball, oskie, cover, block, cut and slice, pursue and gang tackle . . . this is the WINNING EDGE.” The term oskie appeared first in General Neyland’s journal in 1938 and is believed to come from the University of Illinois, where “Oskee Wow Wow” was the title … Continued

The UT Outdoor Program began in 2004. The program offers day trips, weekend trips, break trips, special events, clinics, and women-only events. It initiated the all-access Outdoor Festival in 2004. The festival provides a weekend of education, friendly competition, and service in the great outdoors. One of the features of the event has become a … Continued

In August 2008 basketball graduate assistant Brooks Savage, who began his affiliation with the basketball team as a freshman student manager under Coach Buzz Peterson, had an idea for a fund-raising program that would allow UT’s basketball program to honor Chris Lofton and others associated with the program and raise money for cancer research and … Continued

In late January 2009, Jim Ragonese, staff member in the UT Medical Center Public Relations Office, announced that Chemo Bear, the official mascot of UT Medical Center’s Cancer Institute and resident of the chemotherapy room at the institute, was joining the OUTLIVE campaign. The small, cuddly bear (with the help of Ragonese) created a Facebook … Continued

The OUTreach Center first coordinated a celebration of National Coming Out Day (October 11, the date of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights) in 2010. It did not coordinate an event in 2011 but in 2012 had a flash mob and other activities on October 9, since October 11 fell … Continued

Southeast Services entered into a contract to provide some of the custodial services required by UT, mostly on the agricultural campus, in 1980. In 1983 it assumed substantial responsibilities for the main campus, and in 1989 the contract was renewed and enlarged to include over 65 UT buildings, resulting in the elimination of 31 filled … Continued