Short answers, pulled from the story.
The University of Tennessee was founded on the 10th of September, 1794, as Blount College, two years before Tennessee became the 16th state. It is the oldest secular institution of higher education west of the Appalachian Divide.
The Body Farm is the nickname for the University of Tennessee Anthropological Research Facility, founded by William M. Bass in 1972. Located on Alcoa Highway near the UT Medical Center, it is one of the leading research centers in the United States for studying human decomposition to advance forensic and anthropological knowledge.
The Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball team has won eight NCAA Division I championships, in 1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, and 2008. Only Connecticut, with twelve titles, has more. Their former head coach, Pat Summitt, is the all-time winningest basketball coach in NCAA history.
The Geier Consent Decree settled a 1968 lawsuit filed by attorney Rita Sanders Geier alleging that Tennessee's higher education system remained segregated. The 2001 settlement directed $77 million in state funding to increase diversity among students and faculty across all Tennessee institutions of higher learning.
The University of Tennessee holds a formal research partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory through the UT-Battelle partnership, established under UT president Andrew Holt. ORNL is one of the largest government laboratories in the United States and houses two of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
Beverly J. Davenport was confirmed as the first female chancellor of the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus on the 15th of December, 2016. UT president Joe DiPietro fired her on the 2nd of May, 2018, citing poor communication and interpersonal skills, qualities that had been listed as her strengths when she was hired.