Nathan Boals, a 21-year-old senior communications studies major was found dead at the bottom of a Paris stairwell on July 8, 2007. He was studying abroad with 18 other students, led by faculty member Kenneth Levine. Foul play was not suspected. The students had visited a Paris nightclub earlier in the evening, and Boals became … Continued

The Board of Regents system, which governs higher education institutions in Tennessee other than the University of Tennessee, was created by the legislature in 1971.

In 1971 the legislature passed a bill requiring the appointment of a woman to at least one of the next five board openings. Governor Winfield Dunne appointed 26-year-old Anne Baker Furrow in 1971.

In 1973 State Representative John K. Mann introduced legislation in the 1973 session of the General Assembly to expand the board of trustees by adding a student member. UT President Edward J. Boling opposed the addition of a student to the board on the grounds that a one-year term was meaningless and constituted a first … Continued

Members of the UT Board of Trustees are invited to all UT commencements and sometimes represent the institution at events at which academic regalia is worn. In 1975 Dr. John Prados, vice president for academic affairs, worked with the American Council on Education and a committee of faculty drawn from across the UT system to … Continued

The university’s first boathouse was built in 1895. The most recent boathouse, on Neyland Drive, was a partnership that grew out of the city’s effort to develop Volunteer Landing. Women’s intercollegiate rowing had been established in 1995, and the NCAA sanctioned the sport in the 1996–97 academic year. The UT team was still housed, along … Continued

The US Bobsled and Skeleton Foundation held an athlete recruitment workout at Tom Black Track in April 2003 to look for potential Olympic-caliber athletes for the bobsled, luge, and skeleton competitions. The workout was part of a monthlong tour of universities nationwide in search of athletes. The foundation indicated it was looking for sprinters and … Continued

See Anthropological Research Facility; Bass, William Marvin, III.

In 1988, at the last commencement at which UT System President Edward J. Boling presided, Knoxville Chancellor Jack E. Reese presented Boling with a street sign that was an exact copy of the new sign erected to mark the renaming of Boling Alley on the Knoxville campus. The alley runs parallel to Andy Holt Avenue, … Continued