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Boyd Venture Challenge Awards Funding to Two Student Startups
Two students from our department were awarded substantial earnings in the Boyd Venture Challenge competition for their startups.
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UTSI Students Receive Awards at the 2017 AIAA Young Professionals Symposium
Students from UTSI were honored with awards at the 2017 AIAA Young Professionals Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Astronaut Walt Cunningham Apollo: “The Golden Age of Spaceflight”
UTSI hosted Astronaut Walter Cunningham to speak about the Apollo space program and his experience going into space.
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Engineering Student Earns STEM Conference Award
Engineering student Jasmine Worlds received the Student Leadership Award at the Women of Color STEM Conference.
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Lady Ice Vol and MABE Senior Tackles a Male-Dominated Sport
Ice Vols goalie Mia Becker came to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a transfer from Boston University, where she played goalie for a division 1 hockey team. “I decided to transfer to a school where I could pursue engineering and still have hockey, just not as much as a time commitment, so I came…
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First School Visits UTSI’s New Observatory
Fifth grade students from East Lincoln Elementary School in Tullahoma, TN visited UTSI to see the new new solar observatory.
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NASA Celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the Voyager Outer Planet Missions
Gary Flandro, UT professor emeritus, helped enable NASA’s Voyager “Grand Tour” mission, celebrated at its 40th anniversary in Washington, DC.
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Sky & Telescope Magazine Great American Eclipse Tour at UTSI
The Sky & Telescope Magazine’s Great American Eclipse Tour group came to UTSI to see the new observatory and listen to lectures.
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UTSI Names New Director of Center for Laser Applications
Mark J. Balas was recently named Director of the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) and appointed Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, Tickle College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. He is the Holder of the Jack D. Whitfield Professorship of Dynamic Systems…
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UTSI’s Flight Research Group Flies Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment Mission
The University of Tennessee Space Institute’s Flight Research Group participated in the Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) in August, along with a consortium of government agencies and universities including the Department of Energy (DOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), University of Hohenheim (Germany), University of Wisconsin-Madison, and University of Oklahoma. The experiment occurred at the…
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