The University of Tennessee’s Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment will be receiving nearly $620,000 in funding through a federal manufacturing leadership program.

Professor Xueping Li and his interdisciplinary, multi-institutional team have been awarded funding from the US Department of Energy to launch a first-of-its-kind, national-scale undertaking to address freight’s impact on climate change.

The East Tennessee Initiative for Smart Energy Management brings Vols together with participating companies for collaboration on best practices in manufacturing.

PhD student Ezgi Gursel won an award from the US Department of Energy for making it easier to catch human errors in nuclear power plants.

James Ostrowski was picked by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science for its Early Career Research Program for his research into complex algorithms.