Chuck Melcher, director of the Scintillation Materials Research Center, is conducting research that has applications in fighting both terrorism and cancer. Butch Irick, a research assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been in the driver’s seat as hybrid vehicle technology has moved from experimental to commonplace.

The Center for Transportation Research, Governor’s Highway Safety Office, and Tennessee Highway Patrol launched the Seatbelts Are For Everyone (SAFE) campaign at Neyland Stadium on February 22.

One of the leading bodies in the push to diversify classes in STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—fields will be on display in Knoxville as the Tennessee chapter of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TLSAMP) comes to town Thursday and Friday, February 25 and 26.

College of Engineering Graduate, David McCollum, has been named a 2016 Baker Research Fellow in Energy and Environment.

A total of a little over $5,000 was awarded to the groups at a reception held at the Center for Career Development on February 15, 2016.

Students can begin their studies toward the graduate certificate in fall 2016.

Yilu Liu, the joint UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Electric Power Grids, has been named a newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

The SunShot National Laboratory Multiyear Partnership recently awarded a $2.3 million, thirty-six-month project to UT’s College of Engineering and its collaborators.

Backed by the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium is aiming to create a pipeline of new talent and generate new concepts and technologies in basic and applied nuclear science that can be transferred to the national laboratories.