City of Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe began honoring UT coaches and athletes by naming city streets on campus for them in 1991, with the naming of Johnny Majors Drive for football coach Johnny Majors following the second consecutive SEC title win. In May 1997 Pat Head Summitt Drive recognized legendary women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, … Continued

Michael T. Strickland graduated from UT in 1977 with a degree in general business. He also attended the College of Law and all but earned the JD degree. Strickland is founder and owner of Bandit Lites, known as the “Rolls Royce of entertainment lighting.” Bandit Lites has received dozens of national and international lighting industry … Continued

Under the aegis of the Student Government Association, the company Off-Campus Access began a meal plan for Strip restaurants in July 2002 for the fall semester. Seventeen restaurants on the Strip were initially enrolled in the plan. The plan worked like a debit system, similar to UT’s All-Star program for on-campus dining. After signing up … Continued

The area of Cumberland Avenue running along the UT campus first earned the nickname “The Strip” after a drug raid in the 1970s. Cumberland Avenue was one of the original Knoxville streets surveyed and platted by Charles McClung in 1791. Some sources say the street was originally called Fourth Street since it was the fourth … Continued

Benjamin Rush Strong, a wealthy financier who had attended UT, died in Daytona Beach, Florida, in March 1915. He was the father-in-law of Anna Monroe Strong, who had been on the Home Economics faculty from 1902 to 1906 and the brother of Robert N. Strong, who had been a UT professor of mathematics. Shortly after … Continued

In 1920 Stuart Wilder Maher, a 1914 chemistry graduate who had just become chief chemist at Tennessee Eastman (Kingsport), wrote a letter to the alumni magazine and its readers suggesting that contributions be made to establish a reference library at UT to support research work. He started the reference collection with paid subscriptions to the … Continued

Stuart Mountain, in Victoria Land Antarctica, is named for Alfred Wright Stuart, a faculty member in the Department of Geography from 1966 to 1970. He served as research glaciologist on an eight-person research team in Antarctica as part of the US Antarctic Research Program from November 1958 to March 1960. He is the author of … Continued

In 1869–70 students were required to pay an “incidentals” fee of $2.50 per session, in addition to the $18 per session tuition. This fee, however, was not necessarily expended for student activities. The fee was increased by $1 in 1875 to pay for extra food and for nursing and medicine for sick students, to be … Continued

The Student Alumni Associates is the student arm of the National Alumni Association—a student organization sponsored by the Office of Alumni Affairs and open to sophomore, junior, and senior students. The purpose of the organization is to stimulate students’ interest in UT and to foster alumni participation after graduation. The SAAs are official hosts for … Continued

The Student Alumni Associates’ UNITE program launched at Summer Orientation 2009. The goal of the program is to connect undergrads with Tennessee traditions, UT alumni, volunteer projects, and campus and community leadership opportunities. As an SAA program, UNITE is overseen by the SAA president and two cochairs. Unlike SAA, which has a vigorous selection process, … Continued