The year is 1931. Clark Gable watches as a young Joan Crawford sits behind a piano and begins to play. Her arresting, sharp features defined by MGM’s Max Factor draw in the audience, seizing attention as she opens her signature hunter’s bow lips to sing. The director zooms in, exploiting the actors’ chemistry. Audiences sit just as the film’s title suggests: Possessed.
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First-time visitors to campus might find the Carousel Theatre to be a bit of an oddity. In a part of campus where the buildings of modernist brick and concrete are…
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Imagine, if you can, a financial wizard with some engineering smarts who enabled the first subway tunnel under the Hudson River in New York. Then try to picture the same…
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Twenty years ago, Michael Bishop (MS ’83) stumbled on police records about the murder of UT freshman Paula Herring in Nashville in 1964. A man was convicted of the murder, but the more Bishop researched, the more he realized that something just wasn’t right.
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For 25 years, visitors to Hodges Library have been transfixed by what appear to be the bones of a mythological creature. The installation, a work of art, reminds viewers to remain skeptical of what may appear to be true.
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In September 1922, the Vol football team boarded a logging train and retreated to the Great Smoky Mountains and Elkmont’s Wonderland Hotel to train with long hikes in the woods and dips in the ice cold river.
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Every university is judged by its alumni, and former UT students have found themselves all over the world, distinguishing themselves in the sciences, literature, and performing arts. UT graduates who…