Dr. Nathalia Wright, a native of Athens, Georgia, received the baccalaureate degree from Maryville College in 1933 and the masters and doctoral degrees from Yale University in 1938 and 1949, respectively. She joined the faculty of UT’s English Department in 1949. From 1970 to 1976, she served as associate director of graduate studies in the … Continued

The Writers in the Library program began in 1999 as a venue for students in the creative writing program to present their works and evolved into a program in which published writers spoke at the library and which featured a Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence. The library selected a writer, paid them a small … Continued

A writing lab to assist students who did poorly on the Junior English Examination had been put into place in 1928, and the concept was expanded by the English Department’s establishment of a Writing Laboratory during the winter and spring quarters of 1937. The lab was established in response to requests from students and from … Continued

UT’s Writing Program won the Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 2012. UT was one of seven schools to win the designation—one of only thirteen schools to have been so designated since the program began in 2004. The award recognizes the excellence of UT’s first-year writing program and Writing … Continued

In 1955 legislation was passed authorizing a public television system in Tennessee owned and operated by the Tennessee State Board of Education. The stations were to serve the school populations in their areas first, before all other considerations. The first (of four) state-owned educational television stations established, WSJK (Channel 2) began broadcasting on March 15, … Continued

In March 1981 the North American Philips Corporation announced that it would provide equipment to produce television shows about the 1982 World’s Fair and would place television monitors throughout the site to provide interviews and taped or live shows. North American Philips invited the UT College of Communications to “allocate faculty to head the project … Continued

Louis Phillip Wulff Jr. (1902–1984), retired businessman from Memphis, gave UT two significant collections. In 1949 he donated his collection of Danish, Native American, and Alaskan natives’ relics to UT. The artifacts ranged in age from half a century to 80 centuries. Among the artifacts were 65 clay pots, made by Native Americans of West … Continued

On June 2, 1949, UT sent the FCC an application for installing an FM station, suggesting five sets of call letters: WVOL, WTCA, WHTS, WVSU, and WUOT. WUOT was the culmination of lengthy efforts to establish a radio station and lengthy participation by UT in the field of radio beginning with the World War I … Continued

In early 2010 WUOT released an app featuring content from WUOT.

A group of concerned listeners, led by Michael Kaplan, associate professor of architecture, petitioned the FCC in the summer of 1996 challenging the renewal of WUOT’s license to operate. The issues were the canceling of the midday talk show Segue; the termination, in December, of Segue’s host and producer, Jacqueline Jones; and the lack of … Continued