Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and UT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy used neutrons to uncover novel behavior in materials that holds promise for quantum computing. The findings, published in Nature Materials, provide evidence for long-sought phenomena in a two-dimensional magnet. Read More »

The researchers combined two materials—graphene and hexagonal boron nitride—into a single layer only one atom thick. Graphene has attracted attention as a “wonder material” because of its high strength and electronic properties.

UT Civil and Environmental Engineering doctoral student Hannah Woo was recently honored as one of ninety students in the United States and Canada to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the Philanthropic Educational Organization Sisterhood. Woo focuses on environmental issues while studying under Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology Terry Hazen. Read More »

UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have once again teamed up on a breakthrough technology—this time with a research idea inspired by a pair of high school students. Under the direction of engineering teacher Melinda Hamby, Max Lamantia and Devin Schafer, seniors at Central Magnet School in Murfreesboro, came up with the concept of a…

Improving the educational, health, personal, and professional outlooks for Native Americans will be among the topics discussed when UT hosts the inaugural regional conference of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society on April 8­ and 9. The event kicks off at 4:30 p.m. April 8 with a stickball demonstration at the Humanities Amphitheater, which will be…

UT graduate students in certain fields have an opportunity to take part in a high-end summer program thanks to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ORNL’s Technology Transfer Internship Program is open to UT students in particular programs in the Haslam College of Business, the College of Engineering, or the College of Arts and Sciences who have a…

Speakers, presenters, and poster sessions covered a range of technical topics related to nuclear research, with UT’s presence widely felt.

UT has been selected to participate in a $317 million public-private partnership run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and announced today by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. Much like the UT-led Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) announced by the White House in 2015, the MIT partnership, named Advanced Functional Fibers of…

Join CURENT for a panel discussion about the challenges of the engineering profession with three of its most successful women – Jacinda Woodward, Kim Greene and Jenifer Cistola.

UT nuclear engineering professor Brian Wirth is considered one of the leading authorities in nuclear materials and modeling how those materials behave in extreme environments.