In May 1988 Dr. John H. Fisher, retired English professor, announced that after initial conversations with Chancellor Reese and President Boling about the possibility of forming a nonprofit corporation to build and operate a UT Retirement Complex associated with the UT system, surveys were being mailed to 730 retirees to gather information about how many … Continued

In 1941 the legislature passed a bill (prepared by Dean Witham, of the College of Law) that enabled the university to implement a retirement plan that essentially mandated retirement at age 65 and provided that individuals and the university would each contribute 3 percent of salary per month to the plan. The plan was revised … Continued

The Council of Deans and the Chancellor’s Office constituted a Review and Reduction Task Force, chaired by Dr. Anne Mayhew, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies, in November 2003. The committee identified an initial seven programs to review: Urban and Regional Planning (MSP); Educational Administration and Policy Studies (MS, EdD, PhD); … Continued

The Athletics Department implemented a program of rewarding students for attendance at athletics events in August 2008. The goal of the program was to increase student turnout by providing incentives for showing up for games. Participating students registered their student ID cards with the Athletics Department’s Marketing Department. Students who attended varsity sporting events designated … Continued

In 1939 Clarence F. Hiskey, who had done research at Wisconsin on the rare metal rhenium, joined the faculty of the UT Department of Chemistry. He interested several of his colleagues in participating with him in a broadly based research program on the chemistry of rhenium. When Dr. Hiskey relocated to TVA, Dr. A. D. … Continued

The UT Real Estate Society was organized in 1960 and received a charter from the national Rho Epsilon real estate society a few years later.

Seven UT alumni have been named Rhodes Scholars. Dr. Bernadotte Schmitt (BA chemistry, 1904; also a Pulitzer Prize winner) was the first to be selected as a Rhodes Scholar in 1905. Other UT alumni selected include Matthew G. Smith (1911), Arthur P. Whitaker (1917), William Everett Derryberry (1928), Nancy-Ann Min (1979), Jennifer Santoro (1994), and … Continued

Malcolm Rice was the architect for the University of Tennessee from 1953 to 1970. He attended Yale School of Architecture in 1916–17 and 1919–20. He served during World War I in the navy. He studied in Egypt, Italy, China, India, and France from 1919 to 1921. When he returned to the United States, he joined … Continued

A 1964 graduate in geography, Ron Rice borrowed $500 from his father in 1966, mixed up a batch of tanning lotion in a garbage can, and peddled it at Daytona Beach. The lotion became Hawaiian Tropic, and Rice became a multimillionaire. After graduation, he coached football and taught chemistry at Daytona High (Florida), and in … Continued