Faculty
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Mother and Mentor: Bogetic Embraces Both Roles
Assistant Professor Sandra Bogetic uses the skills she gained as a parent of two young daughters to help mentor her nuclear engineering students at UT.
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Bobba Receives Young Investigator Award for Prostate Cancer Research
Kondapa Naidu Bobba will receive the 2026 Young Investigator Award to advance important prostate cancer research.
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UT Professors Collaborate to Study Magnetism of Bees
MSE Associate Professor Dustin Gilbert is involved in an interdisciplinary research project with his wife and another UT professor studying the magnetism of bees. They have measured magnetism in more than 120 different species of bees over the last six years.
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Bayati and Khattak Examine Rare but Lethal Pedestrian Crashes
Asad Khattak and Zeinab Bayati’s AI-enhanced research shows that rare crash scenarios, while harder to prevent, are disproportionately deadly to pedestrians.
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Meredith Named New CBE Department Head
Carson Meredith has been selected as the new department head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Meredith joins the University of Tennessee from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Mench Honored as Penn State Outstanding Engineering Alumni
Tickle College of Engineering Dean Matthew Mench received Penn State College of Engineering’s 2026 Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award.
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Trinh, Zhang Awarded Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards
Professors Cong Trinh and Feng-Yuan Zhang have received Chancellor’s Innovation Fund awards for projects involving the biomanufacturing of natural butyl acetate and the development of a new electrode technology.
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Jariwala Named UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Quantum Devices
Deep Jariwala, a nationally recognized leader in quantum materials and next-generation electronic devices, is joining TCE as UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor for quantum devices.
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Schelble’s ARO Agreement to Help Create More Secure Human-AI Teams
Right now, large language model artificial intelligences (AIs) like ChatGPT are tools. Like a calculator or a hammer, you use them to complete one task, then put them away until later. However, AIs are gaining increased independence when contributing to collaborative work that human teammates rely on and work from. These AI teammates can quickly…
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Stein, Adotey’s Discovery Paves Way to Safer Batteries
Gila Stein and Samuel Adotey discovered how to increase conductivity in a promising type of electrolytes called polymeric ionic liquid block copolymers.