Tennessee Journalist is the online student news site of the School of Journalism and Electronic media (www.tnjn.com). Dr. Jim Stovall launched the student-run news website in October 2006.

From 1927 until 1951, the University of Tennessee at Martin operated as a junior college branch of UT.

The national Junior Science and Humanities Symposia Program, sponsored by the army, navy, and air force research programs, invited high school students to conduct an original research investigation in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics, and to participate in a regional symposium sponsored by universities. The Tennessee program was begun at UT in 1964. Each year, … Continued

The first issue of the Tennessee Law Review was published in 1922 with the financial support of prominent Knoxville lawyer and member of the UT Board of Trustees, T. Asbury Wright. Among the six editors of the inaugural issue was future US Congressman Howard H. Baker, class of 1924. The purpose of the Review was … Continued

The Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame was established in 1966 as a joint project of the Tennessee Press Association (TPA) and the university. The first 10 inductees were honored at the unveiling of the Hall of Fame display in the new Communications and University Extension Building on October 11, 1969. Turner Catledge, vice president of … Continued

In January 1994 Tennessee became part of the United States Newspaper Project, a nationwide program designed to preserve and to provide access to newspapers. The project funding came from the Preservation and Access Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project is designed to identify and catalog the nation’s newspapers and then to … Continued

A grant of $500,000 in federal funds established the Tennessee on the Move effort to promote nutrition and exercise throughout the state. Dr. Michael Zemel, professor of nutrition, was director of the effort. The program was an affiliate of America on the Move.

In 1987 the projects to edit the papers of US President James K. Polk and those of US President Andrew Jackson moved to the UT campus, joining the ongoing project of editing President Andrew Johnson’s papers. At this time, the university, in recognition of the significance of being the only university in the United States … Continued

Formed after the projects to edit the papers of Tennessee’s three US presidents were consolidated at the university in 1987, the Tennessee Presidents Trust was formed in 1989 to assist in building statewide awareness and support of the work. The trust published a newsletter, the Legacy, and distributed occasional pamphlets highlighting the presidents’ public careers. … Continued

Launched in September 2009, the Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (Trace) is the digital archive of the UT Libraries. Through it, faculty members and students can display and archive their conference papers, dissertations, technical reports, data sets, multimedia projects, works of art, course notes, or previously published articles—any work they wish to share. Trace is … Continued