At the Silver Anniversary Conference of the Southeastern Regional Council of the National Association of Housing and Urban Development Officials, the Knoxville Housing Authority and the University of Tennessee jointly won the award for Most Successful College Expansion Program. The July 1965 award recognized college expansion projects being effectively carried out under Section 112 of … Continued

Irene P. Bowman, age 65, whose two-story frame house at the corner of Yale and Temple Avenues had been designated as the site of the new Humanities Complex, refused to give up her home. She rented rooms in the house and in a small gardener’s cottage at the rear of the house, and a niece … Continued

Marilyn Yarbrough was named dean of the College of Law in 1987, the first black dean of a major Southern Law School and the second African American female dean of a law school. A Kentucky native, she earned the bachelor’s degree in English from Virginia State University and worked for IBM and Westinghouse as her … Continued

Moss Yater (class of 1924) is responsible for the recognition of the Southern Intercollegiate Golf Association by the Southern Intercollegiate Conference in 1924, resulting in golf meets having the same standing with the SIC as football, basketball, and baseball. He also was a principal organizer of the first conference golf tournament. At UT he was … Continued

The Yates Dissertation Fellowships were established in June 2000 with a generous bequest from the estate of Arthur E. Yates (1915–1997), president of Yates Bleachery Company and a dedicated friend of UT. The stipends to support the final stages of preparation of the dissertation that are funded by the Yates Graduate Fellowship Endowment are equivalent … Continued

The name of the UT Yearbook is the Volunteer. The yearbook was first published in 1897, and its first editor was Norman H. Pitman. Its first publication was delayed by several weeks because a major fire in downtown Knoxville destroyed the printing company at which it was being printed. It has been issued annually since … Continued

Yee-Haw Industries was a partnership of Bryan Kevin Bradley, who attended UT from 1988 to 1993, and Julia Eileen Belcher, BFA 1986 (and also MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts). It was a letterpress art print shop and creative studio that produced unique, art-like products that received worldwide acclaim. Yee-Haw’s work was selected … Continued

UT’s College of Business joined the Yellow Ribbon Program in 2011. The program provides institutions such as UT with the ability to fund tuition expenses that exceed in-state tuition costs. Under the program, UT could waive up to 50 percent of the costs and the Department of Veterans Affairs would match the waived amount. At … Continued

YMCA meetings were held on campus in 1876, and the UT YMCA was officially organized on February 2, 1877, following a visit to the university by two representatives of the international committee of the YMCA. The first officers were D. B. Johnson, senior, president; James H. Cowan, a student in the Preparatory Department, vice president; … Continued

On June 9, 1890, ground was broken for a building for the YMCA. On November 14, 1890, the cornerstone was laid, with James D. Hoskins, then a student at the university and president of the YMCA, presiding. The building funds included $8,000 raised by students and designation by the trustees of an additional $6,000 ($3,000 … Continued