Dr. E. Stanfield Rogers was appointed full-time research director of the University of Tennessee Memorial Research Center and Hospital in August 1957. A Tennessee native and graduate of Duke University’s medical school, Rogers came to UT from Duke. He also had spent four years at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. The Tennessee legislature made … Continued

In late spring 1948, UT issued pamphlets describing the proposed uses of radioactive isotopes in medicine, agriculture, and industry for the benefit of all Tennesseans. A drawing on the cover of one pamphlet strongly suggested that Circle Park would be the site of the research center and hospital. In summer 1949 Dr. Brehm proposed to … Continued

In 1952 the Arnold Engineering Development Center opened in Tullahoma, with huge wind tunnels and related equipment to test missiles, supersonic aircraft, and airplane parts and models. The original recommendation for the creation of a testing facility had included a proposal for associating it with a civilian academic university program. Numerous efforts were made, while … Continued

The land upon which the UT Space Institute was built was part of holdings that in 1926 became the National Guard training facility, Camp Peay, named for Tennessee Governor Austin Peay. Camp Peay covered 1,040 acres. In 1941 the site was turned into an army training base, and an additional 85,000 acres located just beyond … Continued

The July 12 issue of the Wall Street Journal broke the news nationally that two professors at the UT Space Institute had provided unpublished papers for students to copy as their theses or dissertations in return for the students’ steering lucrative contracts to their private consulting firm. Walter Frost, who retired as the alternative to … Continued

The University Protective Association, an antifraternity organization, was established in 1894. Its membership numbered approximately one hundred students, who distributed large numbers of flyers recounting the horrors of fraternity initiations and describing their disastrous effect upon the university’s literary societies. The UPA met on April 20, 1894, and adopted a constitution and bylaws, but by … Continued

University Scholarships were established as an award for Tennessee freshman students entering UT who scored 26-28 on the ACT test (or 1170 to 1270 on the SAT) and who had a core high school average of 3.75 or above. These partial scholarships are designed to recognize outstanding high school performance on the part of students … Continued

In 1948 Dr. John Tegnell formed the University Singers. Members of the ensemble were selected on the basis of voice and musicianship, scholarship, membership in other choral organizations, leadership, and personality. The group grew, under the direction of Ambrose Holford, to present programs of famous composers and to present show tune concerts. They made an … Continued

The University Studies Program traces its roots to a 1970–71 effort by the College of Engineering to provide social sciences/humanities courses to engineering majors. University Studies 3010: Technology and Society was approved in August 1971 to be offered in spring 1972. University Studies 4010: Energy Needs and Our Environment was added for 1973–74. The program … Continued

UT began replacing its VAX clusters and other university systems with UNIX in 1995.