In spring 1979 two women working in the Panhellenic Building at midday on Saturday were tied up in the Panhellenic Office by a man wielding a knife and a gun. One of the two was raped.

Crowds of men estimated anywhere from two hundred to two thousand congregated in front of Stuart’s Tea Room about 9:15 on Monday, April 20, 1959, and then charged down to the women’s residence halls, gathering recruits as they went in UT’s major entry in the national “panty raid” trend. Girls in the residence halls shouted … Continued

Activities of the UT Parachute Club were suspended indefinitely in May 1973 following the death of a second student. Richard Karp drowned April 20, 1973, after drifting off course into Douglas Lake while making his first parachute jump. On July 9, 1972, Brenda Faye Ervin, also making the first parachute jump, fell to her death.

In 1999 the parasitic organism Sarcocystis speeri was named for C. A. Speer, UT dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources and professor. An internationally known electron microscopist, Speer was part of the team that discovered the parasite, and the team named it after him. His research, conducted principally during his 25-year … Continued

Mary-Lou Pardue, one of the nation’s outstanding scientists, received the BA in biology from the College of William and Mary in 1955, the master’s of science in radiation biology at UT in 1959, and the PhD in biology from Yale in 1970. She joined the MIT faculty in 1972 as an associate professor and was … Continued

The UT Parents Association was formed in summer 2002 to serve as a resource for parents of UT students. The association published the first parents’ handbook and the “Tennessee Family Newsletter” in 2002. The tradition of a fall “family weekend” began the same year, and the Spring Family Weekend debuted in 2008. The “Tennessee Family … Continued

In fall 2008 the Parents Association formed the Parents Council to serve as a sounding board for parents and advocate for the Parents and Families Fund. The council meets two to three times each year with the Parents Association staff and UT administrators. The meetings coincide with other Parents Association events, such as Family Weekends.

At the 1900 Paris Exposition, attended by an estimated 50 million people and incorporating the second Olympic Games, the UT Agricultural Experiment Station had an exhibit that illustrated its survey of the soils of Tennessee (begun by Professor Charles Vanderford in 1891) and its survey of grasses in Tennessee. Gold medals were awarded for both … Continued

Candace Parker entered UT in 2004 as a WBCA High School All-American and as the first female high school player and only the fifth female player at any level, to dunk a basketball in a sanctioned game. After taking a medical redshirt (torn ACL) her freshman year, she was the Southeastern Conference Rookie of the … Continued