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We Are Awesome

Here is why.

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  • Five students have been named Goldwater Scholars, ranking the University of Tennessee first in the country for the prestigious award.

    —Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation 2020

  • Our four Gilman Scholarship winners earned opportunities to study in Tanzania, Morocco, Japan, and Ireland.

    —Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program 2020

  • UT’s first Mitchell Scholar will pursue a master’s degree in inclusion and special educational needs at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.

    —US-Ireland Alliance 2020

  • Four faculty members from the College of Architecture and Design have been chosen among the country’s most admired architecture educators in the past 7 years.

    —DesignIntelligence 2019

  • UT student entrepreneurs won the US Chamber of Commerce Young Entrepreneur Achievement Award for their business providing campsite set-ups.

    —U.S. Chamber of Commerce 2019

  • UT has won 23 team national championships all time including: women’s basketball, football, track and field, and swimming and diving.

    —UT Athletics 2019

  • UT Extension’s interim assistant dean was honored with the National Excellence in Extension Award.

    —USDA 2019

  • A student in our Institute of Agriculture won the nationally competitive Gloria Barron Wilderness Society Scholarship supporting the protection of U.S. wilderness areas.

    —The Wilderness Society 2019

  • Alumnus James M. Buchanan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986.

    —Nobel Prize

  • Our Volunteer athletes and alumni have won 39 gold medals in the Olympic games.

    —UT Athletics

  • Eight Pulitzer Prize winning writers have connections to UT. Their work includes public service, reporting, play writing, fiction, scientific research, and history.

    —Pulitizer Prize

  • A combination of 9 UT students and alumni have earned Rhodes Scholarships for scholarly achievements, character, commitment to others, and leadership potential.

    —The Rhodes Trust 2020

  • UT teams have won a total of 196 SEC championship titles.

    —Southeastern Conference 2018

  • For the second straight year, a combination of 17 UT students and alumni received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards to study and teach in cities around the globe.

    —Fulbright US Student Program 2020

  • UT is one of the nation’s top-producing campuses for 2019-20 student Fulbrights. Our university ranks 7th among public research universities and 1st in the SEC.

    —US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs 2020

  • Four recent graduates and one current student from UT were named winners in the Global Undergraduate Awards competition.

    —Global Undergraduate Awards 2019

  • A total of 4,223 UT Volunteers broke the world’s record for the largest human letter by forming a giant power T on the field at Neyland Stadium on March 29, 2017.

    —Guiness World Records