UT Queen, owned by the UT Farm, was a prize-winning hen of the state of Tennessee in 1927. She began her career as a professional layer on November 26, 1926, at the age of seven months. UT Queen bested the previous record of 302 eggs laid in a 12-month period in 1926 by a hen … Continued

The UT Research Corporation (UTRC) was chartered on December 24, 1934, for the purpose of promoting research and encouraging the use of research results. It was a response to requests principally by Dr. Kenneth Hertel (physics) and Dr. W. R. Woolrich (mechanical engineering) to establish a nonprofit corporation that could serve as an agency to … Continued

In April 1952 the Alumni Association sponsored the first statewide concert tour of a choral group formed by John Carl Tegnell, an associate professor of fine arts. The 30-voice chorus toured the state in buses. Prior to the tour, the association offered its members a record made by the group. Ambrose Holford, who joined the … Continued

The UT Song Index is an online, publicly available database providing access to about fifty thousand songs in more than fifteen hundred song anthologies owned by the George F. DeVine Music Library at the University of Tennessee. It is an index to citations only. It was first published in 1981 as computer output microfiche and … Continued

On July 1, 1968, the UT Board of Trustees approved the administration’s recommendation that the university be organized as a system, with chancellors for its primary campuses. The August 17, 1970, issue of From the President’s Office explained that “prior to the conversion, all campuses and centers and all other operations of UT were under … Continued

In April 2004 the advisory board of the Department of Consumer Sciences Management challenged students to develop new UT products. The UT Tartan idea was implemented by retail students in the Advanced Product Development course. A wide range of options for the tartan was developed, and a committee chaired by Pat Johnson, wife of former … Continued

Dr. Joseph H. Coggin Jr. (professor of microbiology and head of the ORNL Molecular Anatomy Tumor Program) and his research group were studying the parallels between pregnancy and cancer in 1972, when 50 percent of hamsters being used for the research developed lymphoma. The total population was destroyed, and the areas used in the Hesler … Continued

The UT Zero Energy House, a small structure placed on the McClung Plaza in 2009, combined efforts of researchers, engineers, and architects in Tennessee to develop, design, and build the home of the future. The structure was designed to showcase the latest innovations in the areas of building materials, information technology, solar energy, energy efficiency, … Continued

Begun in 1996 with funds provided by the Alcoa Foundation, the UT-Alcoa GTA Mentoring Program matched doctoral candidates with faculty members who had received campus-wide recognition as outstanding teachers.