Legendary Lady Vol basketball coach Pat Head Summitt is from Henrietta, Tennessee. She is an alumna (1974) of UT at Martin, where she played basketball and volleyball.  Although the name “Pat” Summitt is recognized worldwide, she was and is “Trish” to her family and friends of longest standing. The radio broadcaster who announced some of … Continued

In response to the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 715) designating Wednesday, May 3, 1978, as Sun Day and calling upon the president to issue a proclamation calling for its appropriate observance, President Jimmy Carter declared May 3, 1978, to be “Sun Day.” At UT a solar house on Alcoa Highway was open, commercial and homemade … Continued

In 2003 the UT Agricultural Experiment Station was proposed as one of five regional centers in a national Sun Grant Initiative that involved creating university-based research, extension, and education programs for bio-based energy technologies. President Bush signed into law the 2005 Transportation Act in August 2005, legislation that included funding for the Sun Grant Initiative. … Continued

When elected governor of Tennessee in 1995, Don Sundquist also became chairman of the UT Board of Trustees. He was born in Moline County, Illinois, in 1936 and received the bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in 1957. A prominent Memphis businessman, he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1976 and 1980. He … Continued

Sunnyside was the name of the huge white frame house of Pleasant Miller, located on Cumberland Avenue and razed to allow construction of the Jessie Harris Building. The house is thought to have been an expansion of an earlier log house built by Governor William Blount’s half-brother, Willie, who served as governor of Tennessee. Pleasant … Continued

In spring 1983 UT’s chapter of the AAUP surveyed 596 faculty, nearly half the faculty, on how well administrators were doing their jobs. Administrators were ranked on a scale of 1–10, with 1 being the lowest. Edward J. Boling, UT system president, was ranked worst administrator by a large margin—he was given 1.0 by a … Continued

The Knoxville City Council unanimously indicated its willingness to sell the Sutherland Village property to UT for construction of a new housing development in 1970. The property was part of the 60-acre Sutherland Avenue Airfield developed by Walter Self in 1927 and purchased by the City of Knoxville in 1929. President Boling indicated that either … Continued

Douglass Cecil Peabody Jr., age 41, was found dead on January 31, 1995, in his apartment. He was a doctoral student in the intercollegiate program in ecology and had been at UT since 1988. Keith Williams, age 19, an adult dependent living in Sutherland Apartments with his parents, was arrested for the murder on the … Continued

In 1945 returning veterans and their families needed housing in order to attend the university under the GI Bill. In addition to trailers and barracks that appeared on the Hill and the agriculture campus, a temporary barracks village was created under a partnership with the Federal Public Housing Authority on Sutherland Avenue, on the site … Continued

Betsy Middleton Sutherland earned the PhD in radiation biology in 1967. After completing postdoctoral work at the Walter Reed Research Institute and the University of California Berkeley, she taught at the University of California Irvine before moving permanently to the Brookhaven National Laboratory as senior biochemist. She studies DNA damage and repair in people and … Continued