Federal railroad safety inspectors documented more than 700 defects on the CSX trains and tracks that run through Erwin, Johnson City and Kingsport over a two-year period, according to our analysis of CSX inspection records linked to the company’s local train yards.

Lignin and its companion sibling cellulose reside side by side in the cell walls of poplar trees, switchgrass, and the residues of harvested crops—materials known as biomass.

“The idea is to try to help solve cold cases through the use of big data and computer analytics,” said David Icove, UT’s UL Professor of Practice in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

On February 8, 2017, Vidya Kishore represented the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, at the Legislative Plaza in Nashville, as part of Graduate Education Week. Kishore, a third year PhD student at the Bredesen Center, joined other graduate students from institutions across the state in a morning poster session, where she talked with legislators and government…

It might seem hard to believe, but just 10 short years ago iPhones and Android phones were merely concepts in the minds of engineers.

Students from the Tickle College of Engineering, the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Geography submitted an entry to NASA’s contest “Amateur Radio on the International Space Station,” highlighting some of the space-related innovations occurring at UT.

The Department of Nuclear Engineering awarded 13 outstanding freshman students with a scholarship as part of funding from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).  In addition to the NRC scholarship, the department was able to supplement the scholarship with a Pasqua Scholarship. “The department has very similar goals and values as the NRC and therefore was…

“Our role will be to work with researchers and partners to identify areas of need in advanced manufacturing, particularly with lightweight materials,” said Duty.