Dedicated to providing services to people with disabilities and promoting understanding and awareness through education, a PUSH Club was formed at UT in 2002. PUSH began nationally in 1977, and its name was originally an acronym for Play Units for the Severely Handicapped. As an extension of PUSH America, a main objective of the club … Continued
“Monty” Python, the seven-foot four-inch Burmese python pet of North Carrick resident Cyle Sage, escaped from his cage in Sage’s room on Sunday, April 13, 1986, annoyed, Sage thought, at having had to spend two months at the veterinary hospital recovering from a rat bite. Pythons are not venomous, and Monty had lived in captivity … Continued
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Anthony Quayle came to Knoxville in spring 1974, through a partnership with the Kennedy Center, starring in Henry Denker’s The Headhunters, which rehearsed and opened at the Clarence Brown Theatre and then moved on to the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theatre. Quayle was appointed as professor in theatre in 1974. He taught classes as an artist … Continued
UT students first introduced the muggle version of Quidditch to the campus on November 6, 2013. A combination of many sports, including rugby, soccer, tag, and some elements of football, the Quidditch governed by the International Quidditch Association’s rule book is a full-contact, coed sport with seven players to a team. The terminology and rules … Continued
Dr. Quindry joined the university as research professor for business and economic research in 1968 and retired in 1982. He became recognized as a specialist on taxation and an adviser to the governors and legislatures of Tennessee, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Wisconsin on matters of finance. In addition to numerous studies on tax and finance … Continued
Dr. John Quinn served as chancellor of UT Knoxville and professor of physics and engineering science and mechanics from 1989 to 1992, when he resigned the chancellorship to assume the Lincoln Willis Chair of Excellence in his research area of condensed matter physics. He resigned as chancellor in January 1992, following harsh faculty criticism that … Continued
The R. Tait McKenzie Sculpture Collection consists of more than one hundred bronze statuettes, bas-reliefs, medals, portrait medallions and plaques, all dealing with athletes or athletics. The collection was originally displayed in a gallery in the Health and Physical Education (HPER) Building in rooms and cases designed by Malcolm Rice, UT architect. The collection was … Continued
RA is the common term for Resident Assistant, the first level of staff in University Housing.
Alan Rabinowitz earned the MS and PhD degrees in ecology from UT in 1978 and 1981, respectively. Since leaving UT, he has been tracking and studying jaguars and tigers, with the goal of conservation. He established the world’s first jaguar sanctuary—the Cockscomb Basin Jaguar Preserve—in Belize, the subject of his first book, One Man’s Struggle … Continued