Randy Boyd, Tennessee Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, was the guest speaker. Awards were presented to MABE’s outstanding students, staff and faculty.

The expo, which will be held on the concourse of the arena beginning at 1 p.m., will give seniors a chance to show off some of what they’ve been working on during their final year as undergraduates.

The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering recently added three new members to its Hall of Fame, including a former department head, a former high-ranking official of the Boeing Company, and the current chief operating officer of the Southern Company. Joel Bailey, Howard Chambers, and Kimberly Greene, respectively, joined last year’s inaugural class of…

Four UT doctoral students have been selected to be a part of the 2016 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Read More »

UT placed eighty-third among all businesses across twenty-five industries and is the first Southeastern Conference school on the list, which extends to 500 employers. The University of Florida placed ninetieth.

A zero-waste manufacturing process has long been a dream for industries, especially in areas where businesses believe their byproducts hold great potential. In the production of biofuels that waste product is known as lignin—a pulpy, fibrous mass remaining after plants are processed. It can utilize as much as 70 percent of the material created by…

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 »