This institute offers free creative writing workshops on campus in the summer to high school students and their teachers. The Brian N. Conley Creative Writing Endowment and the Knoxville Writers’ Guild cosponsor the program. Conley earned the BA in political science at UT, and his novel The Killer of Love (1999) is set in Fort … Continued

A 3,000-year-old brick believed to have come from the famous ziggurat of Ur, excavated 1922–34 by Sir Charles Leonard Woolley, was presented to UT’s School of Architecture by General Shale Corporation on August 2, 1982. Basil Satter, the curator of the General Shale Museum of Ancient Brick, made the presentation.

Dean of Agriculture O. Glen Hall proposed that UT build a pedestrian bridge to the agriculture campus in 1972. In 1977, with the blocking of the L&N steam pipe unofficial bridge, agriculture students intensified the pressure. A design was developed that would contain two lanes of automobile traffic, with pedestrian walkways on the sides. The … Continued

There was immediate, vocal opposition to the October 1998 announcement of construction of a four-lane vehicular bridge to the agriculture campus. The 1994 master plan had called for a pedestrian bridge, and campus sentiment was strong that a pedestrian, rather than a four-lane vehicular bridge, was preferable. On January 27, 1999, some 150 students gathered … Continued

In anticipation of its 150th anniversary, the College of Engineering kicked off to the alumni, community, and corporations its $12 million development campaign on October 22, 1987. John W. Fisher, chairman emeritus of the Ball Corporation in Muncie, Illinois, served as national chairman of the campaign. The campaign presented itself as a way to bridge … Continued

Named for both United States President Thomas Jefferson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Tommy Bridges played baseball at UT and graduated in 1929. He began his professional career with the Wheeling Stogies of the Class C Middle Atlantic League. His blazing fastball and nasty curveball caused the Detroit Tigers to call him up. He made … Continued

In 1968 W. Russell Briscoe, a Knoxville insurance executive and historian/artist, gave UT an oil painting of the Hill in 1885 to be displayed in the president’s office. President Andy Holt accepted the painting for the university. Briscoe presented the painting as a memorial to his son, Lt. W. Russell Briscoe Jr., who was killed … Continued

William E. Brock, former US representative, US senator, secretary of labor, trade representative, and chairman of the Republican National Party donated his public papers to UT in November 1997. Brock, from Chattanooga, earned the bachelor’s degree in commerce from Washington and Lee University in 1953. He served as a Lieutenant (JG) in the US Navy … Continued

Derrick Brodus, freshman walk-on placekicker, was sitting in a UT frat house about to watch the upcoming 2011 football game against MTSU when he got a call to come to Neyland stadium immediately. Both the starting and the back-up kickers were injured, and he was to kick. A police escort took him to the stadium … Continued

Dr. Brooks joined the faculty of the Department of Metallurgical Engineering in 1962 as an instructor. He retired in 1997 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He gained his national and international reputation for his outstanding contributions to the area of physical metallurgy—more specifically, the relationships between the structure of metals and alloys … Continued