Cleveland, Tennessee, was the first partner city to participate in the pilot term of the Smart Communities interdisciplinary program, which began in fall 2014 as part of UT’s service learning initiative. Through SCI, UT upperclassmen, graduate students, and a faculty partner with a city to work collaboratively toward community development and positive change. The program … Continued

In 1914 the US Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, which provided to each state $10,000 for agricultural extension, plus a sum in proportion to the rural population.  The university received the $10,000. In 1928 these funds were supplemented by passage of the Capper-Ketcham Act. This act added an additional $20,000 immediately and $35,000 a year … Continued

Named a charter trustee in Blount College’s 1794 Charter, Daniel Smith was appointed secretary of the Territory South of the River Ohio by General Washington in 1790. Previously, he had been one of the five trustees for the establishment of Davidson County and a charter trustee of Davidson Academy. Smith served as secretary of the … Continued

Guy Lincoln Smith Jr. was the founder of two Tennessee newspapers (the Johnson City Chronicle and the Bristol Bulletin), publisher of another (Johnson City Staff News), and editor of one of Tennessee’s major dailies (the Knoxville Journal) for 31 years. He attended the university for one year (1915) before transferring to Princeton University, where he … Continued

Hilton Smith joined the faculty of the university in 1942 in the Department of Chemistry. He was instrumental in developing the PhD program in chemistry, implemented in 1944. In 1961 he was named dean of the Graduate School. In 1966 he became vice president for graduate studies and research and in 1968 (when the university … Continued

Ida Smith was the first female to register at the university, in the Teachers Department, in February 1892. Coeducation had ceased in 1807, prior to the trustees granting full admission to women in spring 1893. Smith was the daughter of Francis Marion Smith, principal of the UT Teachers Department. The University Magazine stated that she … Continued

Biophysicist Jeremy Smith became the first Governor’s Chair appointee on October 1, 2006. Smith earned the bachelor’s degree in biophysics from Leeds University in England and conducted his doctoral research at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, an international neutron science center. At the time of his appointment, he was the head of the computational … Continued

Jessica Smith from Hixson, Tennessee, an honors student attending UT on scholarship with dreams of becoming a veterinarian, parked her bright orange Volkswagen in the Lake Avenue Parking Garage on the night of November 13, 2002, and started walking to her residence hall. She was talking on her cell phone to her boyfriend when Christopher … Continued

Dr. Smith joined the faculty of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences in the College of Home Economics (later Human Ecology and now within the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences) in 1960 and remained on its faculty until his retirement in 1991. His research in sulphur-containing amino acids and metabolic obesity brought … Continued