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However, when that institution is the National Science Foundation and the professor can continue working with their school—as is the case with UT’s Lynne Parker—it is a double bonus for the university.

The surgery could improve the child’s mobility by correcting the way the muscles move. Or it could make the child even more likely to lose balance and fall while tripping.

The seven—seniors Aston Thompson, Christian Wilson, Chris Bruneau and Chris Ludtka and sophomores Mary McBride and Melanie Lindsey from CBE and sophomore Samantha Medina of MSE—are all part of the Zawodzinski Group, a group dedicated to electrochemical and energy storage research run by Governor’s Chair Thomas Zawodzinski.

In this role, Parker will serve as a member of the CISE leadership team and as NSF’s principal spokesperson in the area of information and intelligent systems. The IIS Division is responsible for programs with a total annual budget of approximately $180 million. IIS studies the inter-related roles of people, computers, and information.

Hu, of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, has researched a way to print circuits on paper, the main impact of which could be a decrease in cost and an increase in portability for any number of devices.

The phrase “cloaked in secrecy” can often be used to describe research projects, but thanks to breakthroughs in the College of Engineering, optical cloaking is no longer just the domain of science fiction.

UT’s College of Engineering has made recent headlines for discoveries that, while atomically small, could impact our modern world.

The study of the properties of boundaries between different materials—something that could one day change the world of electronics—is getting a boost from research being done by scientists in UT’s College of Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The position began with a $1 million endowment from telecommunications giant Ericsson in 1998, made in the hopes of furthering research into software engineering.

That number—which includes 250 students who made the trek from Memphis—easily surpassed the previous record of 1,200, set just last year.