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Take a look at how campus has grown in the past seventy years and what’s coming next.

Get to know Lady Vols basketball’s Rennia Davis, who excels on the court and in the classroom.

General Robert Neyland’s game maxims helped former football player Austin “Shifty” Shofner (’37) and several others escape a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

In an ever-changing landscape of news and technology, Amanda Wills (’08) has found her calling.

Maker’s Club turns student idea into a prosthetic limb.

Increasingly, faculty and students are crossing the silos of academic disciplines. Interdisciplinary collaborations are key to solving some of society’s greatest challenges. Here are a few of the Volunteers striving to make a difference through unique and sometimes surprising partnerships.

In 1992, X-Men: The Animated Series took the world by storm, and three UT alumni were the creative forces behind its success.

It’s hard to imagine Gay Street without the magnificent Tennessee Theatre sign illuminating the night, but that’s what nearly happened in 1977 when the theatre closed. If it hadn’t been for a UT professor and a few young alumni, the theatre may never have become the showplace it is today.

Two simple words tweeted by alumnus Patrick Wells on behalf of MoonPie vaulted the classic brand into internet superstardom.

As 2017 winds to a close, let’s take a look back at the top five, most-read stories from Torchbearer magazine—just in case you missed them!