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  • Fusion Funding

    Fusion Funding

    Governor’s Chair for Nuclear Materials and Professor Steve Zinkle is the lead principal investigator of a Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives proposal that will receive $20 million in funding over four years.

  • Parker Returns to White House as Executive Director 

    Parker Returns to White House as Executive Director 

    Lynn Parker, Associate Vice Chancellor Emerita, will serve as the executive director of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

  • Aziz Awarded for Smart Pixel Technology

    Aziz Awarded for Smart Pixel Technology

    EECS Assistant Professor Ahmedullah Aziz was recently selected as an awardee for the Defense TechConnect Pitch Program for his patent-pending smart pixel technology.

  • NSF Grants He $760,000 for Improved Microbial Methanogenesis

    NSF Grants He $760,000 for Improved Microbial Methanogenesis

    After 15 years, Qiang He’s group is perfecting a novel method of creating methanogenic microbial communities, which make renewable methane from organic waste.

  • Distinguished Fellows

    Distinguished Fellows

    Professors Sergei Kalinin and Chuck Melcher have been named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), which is the highest distinction awarded solely to inventors.

  • Year’s Best Innovator

    Vaidya Honored as UTRF’s Innovator of the Year Uday Vaidya, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing Professor, was honored as the Innovator of the Year at the 2024 UT Research Foundation’s Innovation Awards.   Vaidya’s pioneering leadership in advanced composites and materials has transformed lightweight, high-performing materials, driving innovation across industries. Vaidya’s work has fostered…

  • Building Bridges to England

    Building Bridges to England

    The University of Tennessee and the University of Sheffield recently signed a memorandum of understanding to facilitate research collaborations and promote student and staff exchanges between the institutions.

  • Prevailing Wind

    Prevailing Wind

    UTSI has secured a $17.8M grant to build a wind tunnel that reduces the time and cost of testing new thermal protection system materials for hypersonic vehicles.

  • Molding Future Job Candidates

    Molding Future Job Candidates

    A donation by Moldex3D, an industry-leading plastics flow simulation program, has benefited TCE faculty and students in their research over the last year. The tool has helped students become more marketable to future employers.

  • Mandrus, Ragauskas Honored as Highly Cited Researchers

    Mandrus, Ragauskas Honored as Highly Cited Researchers

    David Mandrus, professor and Jerry and Kay Henry Endowed professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Art Ragauskas, acting head and UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, were named to the 2024 Clarivate list of Highly Cited Researchers. The annual list recognizes those who demonstrated…