History of the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  

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This page includes various documents on the history of the Graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Tennessee, which was one of the first (some say the first) formal programs to offer a Ph.D. in Ecology in the US. The documents and interviews included here were produced in 1987, at which time the Graduate program had been in place for 18 years. The interviews were recorded at the studios of WUOT-FM on reel-to-reel tape by Pam Doyle, the Public Affairs Director for the UT Department of Radio Services. The recordings posted here include full interviews with several individuals involved in the early years of the Graduate Program, as well as those aired on WUOT-FM in July 1987 as part of the program "Segue" which included excerpts from the full interviews. These interviews were based in part on a set of questions posed to all those interviewed (included as Appendix A below). The documents below were written by Louis Gross as a brief summary of the interviews (Appendix B) and as a summary of the development of the Graduate Program.

Brief History of the Program

History of the UTK Graduate Program in Ecology composed by Louis Gross, June 1987 (pdf)

Appendix A - Questions posed during the interviews (pdf)

Appendix B - edited excerpts from the recorded interviews (pdf)

Recordings aired on WUOT-FM Segue program

Segue interview with Dr. James Tanner - July 1987 (aiff file, 38MB, length 3:45)

Segue interview with Dr. Stanley Auerbach - July 1987 (aiff file, 84MB, length 7:50)

Segue interview with Dr. Henry Fribourg - July 1987 (aiff file, 64MB, length 6:05)

Full Interview Recordings conducted by Pam Doyle in 1987

Full interview with Dr. James Tanner - 1987 (aiff file, 133MB, length 12:35)

Full interview (Part 1) with Dr. Stanley Auerbach - 1987 (aiff file, 314MB, length 29:35)

Full interview (Part 2) with Dr. Stanley Auerbach - 1987 (aiff file, 204MB, length 19:10)

Full interview with Dr. Michael Pelton - 1987 (aiff file, 118MB, length 11:10)

Full interview with Dr. Frank McCormick - 1987 (aiff file, 269MB, length 25:05)

Full interview with Dr. Henry Fribourg - 1987 (aiff file, 243MB, length 23:00)

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