
Assistant Professor Carolyn Shurer was awarded a highly competitive five-year NIAID grant to study her potentially revolutionary theory for how flu viruses infiltrate human cells.

Decorated US Army Special Forces officer Tyler Skeen has been named the new executive director of national security and defense programs for DARC, and MSE Professor Katherine Page has been named the director of research.

Sergei Kalinin’s Automated Scanning Probe Microscopy Group is adding AI capabilities to its new FusionScope, a correlative microscope that streamlines material characterization.

Colby Lamb, a sophomore civil engineering major, made a field goal kick that was worth $1.5 million on Saturday during ESPN’s College GameDay show.

As part of a $3M DOE grant, EECS Associate Professor JiangBiao He will spearhead development of an integrated charger-inverter to enable fast charging in electric cars.

TCE remains the highest-ranked public engineering destination in Tennessee and ranks 37th among public universities nationally, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.

Faculty members from TCE are part of a $1 million NSF interdisciplinary project aimed at expanding the production and distribution of locally grown food.

Five faculty members from TCE are leading teams that have been awarded funding by ORIED for multidisciplinary energy and environment research projects.

Nuclear Engineering Associate Professor Ilja Popovs and Assistant Professor Alex Ivanov were both involved in projects that received a prestigious 2026 R&D 100 Award.
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