Points of Pride

  • The Tennessee College of Law legal clinic recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, making it the longest running legal clinic program in the nation.
  • Tennessee co-manages Oak Ridge National Lab, a unique relationship that yields world-leading expertise in high-performance computing, materials research and nanotechnology.
  • Tennessee researchers helped discover Tennessine, an element recently added to the periodic table.
  • Tennessee’s alumni include 10 NASA astronauts who have spent more than 1,000 combined days in space and who have orbited earth 16,000 times.
  • Tennessee is a top-producing institution for Fulbright Scholars and led the nation this year with five Goldwater Scholars.