Two structures have been named Sophronia Strong Hall. The first building so designated was the main house of the Cowan/Briscoe estate, purchased by UT to provide a site for building the women’s dormitory specified in Benjamin Rush Strong’s will. The second was the Sophronia Strong Hall residence hall built in 1925. When the permanent building … Continued

Two structures have been designated as Sophronia Strong Hall. The first was purchased from the estate of Daniel Briscoe in 1920 with a portion of Benjamin Rush Strong’s 1915 bequest requiring the building of a women’s dormitory that would bear the name of his mother. This property was the elegant 1879 mansion built by James … Continued

UT was constructing Barbara Blount Hall as a dormitory for women in 1900, when the UT Chapter of Chi Omega was established. Upon completion of the building in 1901, Chi Omega was provided with a room in which to hold meetings of its chapter. Establishment of additional sororities (AOPi, 1902; Zeta Tau Alpha, 1904; Phi … Continued

In response to concerns from sororities about the aging of the Panhellenic Building (opened in 1964) and the need for more space for their members than suites in the Panhellenic Building provided, the 2001 update of the 1994 Master Plan for Facilities envisioned a new student area to be developed along the entire length of … Continued

In 2009, as archaeological investigations of the Sorority Village site were conducted, a Confederate battle site consisting of cannon emplacements and trenches facing the Fort Sanders area was unearthed. The site was the first archaeologically substantiated Confederate battery position used in the Battle of Fort Sanders (November 29, 1863). Unusually well preserved evidence of cannon … Continued

Residential houses were built by Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Kappa, and Zeta Tau Alpha. Alpha Kappa Alpha contracted for meeting room and office space in UT’s central administrative/meeting building.

In the summer of 1872, South College, a four-story dormitory building designed to accommodate 96 men in 24 rooms that housed four each, was constructed at a cost of $10,513.98. The architect was A. C. Bruce. The original plan had been to construct a three-story building at a cost of $10,000, but the nature of … Continued

In January 1931 small, red, funnel-shaped containers were placed in South College on windowsills, walls, and doors, held by metal brackets. These “red sentries” were fire extinguishers that, when heated by flame, burst and extinguished the blaze by spraying their contents of a carbon tetrachloride solution. As one container would put out only a relatively … Continued

In October 1927 Alvin P. Cate, campus night watchman, was found dead in the South College office of W. L. Kirkman, superintendent of university buildings. The coroner ruled that Cate had been overcome by escaping gas from a heater.

On January 11, 2012, officials from UT and Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea, signed an agreement to exchange research resources. The agreement brought to four the number of programs available to students to travel to South Korea.