The Athletics Department announced on February 12, 2007, an official policy for the retirement of numbers worn by UT athletes. A committee led by the athletics director was to consider candidates who had completed their UT careers for at least five years and met at least two of the following criteria: (1) first-team All-America as … Continued

Athletics Director Dave Hart announced in November 2014 that, after consultation with the NIKE Graphic Identity Group and a study conducted by the University Office of Communications and Marketing, the Power T logo would be used for all athletics programs other than the women’s basketball team, which would retain the Lady Vols designation. The changeover … Continued

Doug Atkins played end on the UT football team in 1950–52. He was an All-America selection in 1952 and All-SEC in 1951 and 1952. He was the Cleveland Browns’ number one draft pick in 1953, and he played for Cleveland through 1954. He then played for the Chicago Bears (1955 to 1966) and for the … Continued

John Atkins, from Henry County, Tennessee, graduated from the university in 1846. He studied law and was admitted to the bar but did not practice. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives (1849 to 1853), the Tennessee Senate (1855 to 1857), and the US House of Representatives from Tennessee (1857 to 1859). He was … Continued

The Atomic Energy Commission contacted President Brehm in 1948 and requested the services of technical personnel as consultants to aid in developing a management program for a herd of Hereford cattle that had been accidentally exposed to the effects of the first atomic bomb explosion in July 1945 near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The owner of … Continued

When Eleanor Deane Audigier (1864–1931) died in 1931, her widower, Louis Audigier [pronounced O T J] wished to donate much of her extensive eclectic collections to UT. A condition of his gift was that UT would provide an appropriate fireproof building to house the collection. In July 1932 the trustees decided that an addition to … Continued

The Department of Audiology and Speech Pathology was established in 1962 in the College of Liberal Arts (now Arts and Sciences), with a focus on graduate work to prepare personnel for professional positions in clinics, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and state and federal agencies. The US Department of Vocational Rehabilitation authorized a training grant of $23,208 … Continued

The original part of the Austin Peay Memorial Building was built in 1910 (opened in May 1911) as the Carnegie Library, designed by Patton and Miller of Chicago. Grant C. Miller was the designer. The cost was $54,000. In 1920 President Morgan asked the Carnegie Corporation for funds to expand the Carnegie Library. James Bertram, … Continued

In fall 2000 the College of Engineering initiated a dual degree program proposed by Jaime Taylor, Austin Peay associate professor and chair of the Physics Department. The program allowed students to attend APSU for three years and then transfer to UT to finish the dual degree program in an additional two years. Upon the completion … Continued

In fall 1968 UT Safety and Security (now UT Police) formed a cadre of over 30 UT employees to serve as part-time auxiliary security officers who could be activated when needed in such instances as campus unrest (or in 1974, streaking). Paid time and a half for their auxiliary work, the auxiliary officers received training … Continued