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to the inauguration of Dr. J. Wade Gilley, the 20th president of the University of Tennessee on Nov. 5.

The following events are open to the public.

11:00 a.m. Nobel Prize winner Dr. James M. Buchanan will deliver the pre-inaugural lecture -The UT That Yet Might Be,- in the University Center Auditorium. Dr. Buchanan won the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics. He earned a master-s degree in economics from UT-Knoxville in 1941. Learn more here

1:30 p.m. A pre-inaugural concert in the Thompson-Boling Assembly Center and Arena.

2:00 p.m. The inauguration ceremony in the Thompson-Boling Assembly Center and Arena. Learn more here Live Webcast

4:00 p.m. A reception on the north concourse, level three of the Thompson-Boling Assembly Center and Arena.