The Science Alliance is a Center of Excellence located within the College of Arts and Sciences that formally links UT Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory science efforts. In 1984 when Governor Lamar Alexander began the Centers of Excellence program, the Science Alliance was the university’s first—and largest—center. In 1984 it received State funding of … Continued

The Academy for Teachers of Science and Mathematics began in 1990. Teachers from the southeast and from eastern Canada come to UT to learn new skills and hone existing ones.

The University of Tennessee Science Forum was founded in 1933 as the Knoxville Science Club. Its purpose is to keep members of the university community aware of advances in science, engineering, and medicine. It meets regularly for a forty-minute presentation followed by a question and answer session, and the presentations are geared for the public.

Science Hall, an imposing building with a tower, was located on part of the site now occupied by the Science/Engineering Research Facility. Science Hall, which cost $40,000 to build and equip, was completed and occupied in 1892. It had chemical and physics laboratories, classrooms for mechanical and freehand drawing, and an auditorium with seven hundred … Continued

The National Science Olympiad tournament began in 1985 as an outgrowth of 1980s programs in Michigan. The Tennessee Science Olympiad was first held at UT in 1994. (It was previously held at UT at Martin and at Oak Ridge’s American Museum of Science and Energy.) In the program, winners of regional competitions in Tennessee participate … Continued

Ground was broken in May 1992 for the $28.4 million building by the UT-REMOTEC Robot and dignitaries. The first occupants moved into labs in 1994, and the building was dedicated June 19, 1997. The building provides specialized research space for disciplines in the sciences and engineering. It connects the Earth and Planetary Sciences Building and … Continued

The 228-seat auditorium in the Science and Engineering Research Facility was named for Dwight and Gloria Kessel on January 22, 1997, honoring the couple for their longtime support of UT programs. Chancellor Bill Snyder and President Joe Johnson unveiled a plaque. Dwight Kessel, a 1950 industrial engineering graduate, had chaired the Chancellor’s Associates and UT … Continued

The College of Engineering prepared and installed in 1997 a time capsule in the Science/Engineering Building. The plan was that the capsule would be opened every 25 years, analyzed, and written about. The time capsule would then be restocked and replaced.

The Scintillation Materials Research Center (SMRC) is a unique multidisciplinary research facility formed in 2005 by a collaboration of the University of Tennessee College of Engineering and CTI Molecular Imaging. The mission of the center is to discover and develop new scintillation materials. The center combines the academic resources of the university with the scintillator … Continued

Alumna Margaret Scobey was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Syrian Arab Republic following her December 9, 2003, confirmation by the US Senate for the post. She earned the bachelor’s degree in history in 1971 and earned the master’s in history in 1973. She pursued doctoral work at … Continued