田纳西大学｜The University of Tennessee

田纳西大学（University of Tennessee）成立于1794年，是Tennessee州最大的大学，也是美国南部的大型大学之一。大学下属农业科学与自然资源学院，联合卫生科学学院，建筑与设计学院，艺术学院，艺术与科学学院，卫生科学学院，商学院，传播与信息学院，牙科学院，教育、卫生与人文科学学院，工程学院，法学院，医学院，护理学院，药学院，社会工作学院，兽医学院，太空研究院。

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英文简介

1.Campus

View of Europa and the Bull at the UT McClung Plaza.The university traces its roots to September 10, 1794, when Blount College was chartered by the legislature of the Southwest Territory, when Knoxville was the territorial capitol. In 1826, what was by then named East Tennessee Collegemoved from Gay Street in downtown Knoxville to a 40 acre (160,000 m2) tract named Barbara Hill (in honor of Governor Blount s daughter). Known to students and alumni today as simply The Hill, it is only a small part of the Knoxville campus but remains at the heart of UT academic life.

The University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility, nicknamed the Body Farm , is located near the University of Tennessee Medical Center on Alcoa Highway (US 129). Founded by Dr. William M. Bass in 1972,the Body Farm features numerous cadavers posed in various situations on a fenced plot of land. Scientists at the university study how the human body decays in differing circumstances to gain a better understanding of decomposition.

Geography of the University of Tennessee campus changed in 1998, when the university changed the name of Yale Avenue to Peyton Manning Pass in honor of the former Volunteer (and now Indianapolis Colts) quarterback. Peyton Manning Pass and Phillip Fulmer Drive meet at the football stadium in what is commonly called a T intersection.

2.Athletics

Main article: Tennessee Volunteers

Football

Main article: Tennessee Volunteers football

Tennessee competes in the Southeastern Conference s Eastern Division, along with Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt, and has longstanding football rivalries with all of them. However, the Vols most intense and bitter rivalry is with Alabama. The teams battle every year in the Third Saturday in October. The Volunteers won the 1998 NCAA Division I-A National Championship in football. Also, the Volunteers won the 1938, 1940, 1950, 1951, and 1968 National Championship three under General Neyland, and six total. The Volunteers are coached by Phillip Fulmer and play at Neyland Stadium, which averages over 107,000 fans per game. Super Bowl champion Peyton Manning is among the numerous NFL athletes to start their careers at the University of Tennessee.

Basketball

Men s

Main article: Tennessee Volunteers basketball

The men s basketball program is headed by Bruce Pearl. Through his guidance, the men s program has been revitalized and claimed the 2005 2006 SEC East Title and closed the season with a 22-8 record and a NCAA Tournament berth. In 2007, the Vols made the NCAA tourney for the second straight year, making it to the Sweet Sixteen. In 2008 the Vols claimed their first outright SEC regular season championship in 41 years. One of the highlights of the 2008 season came when number 2 UT knocked off number 1 Memphis, who was then undeated, to claim the number one ranking in the nation. In men s basketball, the most important rivalries are with Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Florida and cross-state rival Memphis.

Women s

Main article: Tennessee Lady Volunteers basketball

Tennessee has the strongest women s basketball team at the college level, having won eight NCAA Division I titles (1987, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008), the most in women s college basketball history. The Lady Volunteers are led by Pat Summitt, who is the all-time winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, having won over 900 games as of 2006. Coach Summitt also boasts a 100 percent graduation rate for all players who finish their career at UT. Former Tennessee Lady Vols basketball star Candace Parker went No. 1 in the WNBA draft and is being called the possibly best woman to ever play basketball. Tennessee and Summitt also have a rivalry with the University of Connecticut in women s basketball. These two schools have consistently fought great games against each other in recent years, occasionally with the national championship on the line. The regular season rivalry games ended in 2007 when Tennessee decided to not sign a contract continuing them. The main women s basketball rivals for Tennessee within the conference are Georgia, Vanderbilt, and LSU. Tennessee is the only school to make the Sweet Sixteen in all 26 of the women s NCAA tournaments.

Baseball

Main article: Tennessee Volunteers baseball

The University of Tennessee baseball team has reached the NCAA College World Series four times (1951, 1995, 2001 and 2005). They have produced players such as Todd Helton, Joe Randa, Chris Burke, and the number one overall pick in the 2006 MLB Draft, Luke Hochevar.

Softball

In recent years the women s softball team has gained notoriety, reaching the Women s College World Series three consecutive times. They placed third in 2005 and 2006 and second in 2007. Former pitcher Monica Abbott is the all-time career NCAA leader in strikeouts (2,440), shutouts (112), wins (189) and innings pitched (1448.0). The Salinas, California, native won the U.S. Softball National Player of the Year award and the Honda Award for Softball in 2007. She was also honored by the Women s Sports Foundation as its Team Sport Player of the Year over such high-profile candidates as Kristine Lilly of the U.S. women s soccer team and Lauren Jackson of the WNBA.

Recent National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Americans from the University of Tennessee include Abbott (2004-07), India Chiles (2007), Lindsay Schutzler (2005-07), Tonya Callahan (2006-07), Kristi Durant (2005-06) and Sarah Fekete (2005-06).

Facilities

UT s best-known athletic facility by far is Neyland Stadium, home to the football team, which seats over 107,000 people and is one of the country s largest facilities of its type. Neyland is currently undergoing a renovation costing over $200 million.The Volunteers and Lady Vols basketball teams play in Thompson-Boling Arena, the largest arena (by capacity) ever built specifically for basketball in the United States. The former home of both basketball teams, Stokely Athletic Center, still stands and is now used by the Lady Vols volleyball program. Both basketball teams currently train at the Pratt Pavilion, a $20 million dollar facility that recently opened in 2008. Pratt Pavilion houses two full size gymnasia, one each for the men s and women s varsity basketball teams, as well as space for sports medicine, strength training, film study and recruiting.

The Alumni Memorial Gym was another indoor athletic facility. It was built in 1934 during a construction campaign under school president James D. Hoskins, and was replaced by the Stokely Athletics Center in 1967. The facility hosted the Southeastern Conference men s basketball tournament in 1936 and 1937 and again in 1939 and 1940. It is now used as a performing arts center and seats 1,000 spectators.

The swimming program trains at the Jones Aquatic Center, which is located adjacent to the existing Student Aquatic Center, this first-class complex is capable of hosting the Southeastern Conference and NCAA Championships, as well as national and international events. Also included in the new facility is a weight room, training room, and the University of Tennessee Swimming and Diving Hall of Fame.