The University of Tennessee College of Medicine was founded in Nashville in 1879 when an agreement was entered into with the medical department of the University of Nashville (organized October 11, 1850) under which the two medical schools were operated together as a joint medical department for two years as the Joint Medical Department of … Continued

In 1968 a study initiated by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission recommended that a baccalaureate program in nursing should be implemented at UT in Knoxville and that the existing master’s program should be relocated from Memphis to Knoxville. In 1969 the legislature accepted the recommendation and mandated that a School of Nursing be established in … Continued

The College of Nursing Building is a 70,359-square-foot facility built principally with funds ($1.1 million) provided by the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and the remainder provided by the state. A joint architectural venture of Lindsay and Maples; McCarty, Bullock, Hosaple; and Weeks and Ambrose designed the facility, which cost $2,141,000. The Holiday … Continued

The College of Pharmacy had its beginnings as a program within the UT Chemistry Department initiated in 1898. The first degrees in pharmacy were awarded in 1900. When the medical units were established in Memphis in 1911, the UT Trustees moved the pharmacy program from Knoxville to the Memphis medical units. Pharmacy became a separate … Continued

In 1941 Lora Lee Pederson, a social work faculty member at Nashville’s Scarritt College, persuaded the heads of Scarritt, Peabody, and Vanderbilt to apply to the Rockefeller-funded General Education Board for a grant to launch a School of Social Work that would offer the MSSW degree. The Rockefeller Foundation made a $40,000 grant in May … Continued

To celebrate its 60th anniversary (2002), College of Social Work alumni, faculty, staff, and students created a memorial quilt by donating money and creating quilt squares. The themes of the quilt squares were 60 years of professional social work, what individuals and groups do as professional social workers in the state of Tennessee, and fond … Continued

Work in the College of Social Work specializing in veterinary social work was begun in 2002 in partnership with the College of Veterinary Medicine. In 2010 the college offered, through its online master’s degree program, a certification for veterinary social work.

On March 19, 1974, Governor Winfield Dunn signed into law a bill unanimously passed by the Tennessee House of Representatives and passed 32 to 1 in the Tennessee Senate establishing a veterinary college at the University of Tennessee. The UT Board of Trustees had authorized a study in June 1967 to determine whether a veterinary … Continued

In 1899 the UT Alumni Association offered a $20 prize in gold to the person who submitted the best college song. Student Norman H. Pitman submitted “Tennessee I Love Thee,” sung to the tune of “My Old Kentucky Home,” and was awarded the prize in 1901. His song was generally supplanted in 1906 by Darnell’s … Continued

Prior to the adoption of the “Alma Mater” in 1928, two songs had been generally regarded as Tennessee’s official song. “Tennessee” was written by Frank M. Darnall in 1905–6 and was sung to the tune of “Wacht Am Rhine.” When the tune was changed to that of “Maryland, My Maryland” during World War I to … Continued