June 18, 1999

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Dr. Joe Johnson may be leaving the presidency of the University of Tennessee, but his name will echo across the system in future decades. The UT Board of Trustees has approved naming or renaming buildings on three campuses after the native Alabamian, whose UT career spanned 38 years, capped by nine years

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A University of Tennessee professor who spent eight years exploring plantations of the postbellum South has won one of geography’s most prestigious book prizes. Dr. Charles Aiken, UT-Knoxville geography professor, received the J.B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers for his book, “The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War.”