In this role, Parker will serve as a member of the CISE leadership team and as NSF’s principal spokesperson in the area of information and intelligent systems. The IIS Division is responsible for programs with a total annual budget of approximately $180 million. IIS studies the inter-related roles of people, computers, and information.

Hu, of the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, has researched a way to print circuits on paper, the main impact of which could be a decrease in cost and an increase in portability for any number of devices.

The phrase “cloaked in secrecy” can often be used to describe research projects, but thanks to breakthroughs in the College of Engineering, optical cloaking is no longer just the domain of science fiction.

UT’s College of Engineering has made recent headlines for discoveries that, while atomically small, could impact our modern world.

The study of the properties of boundaries between different materials—something that could one day change the world of electronics—is getting a boost from research being done by scientists in UT’s College of Engineering and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The position began with a $1 million endowment from telecommunications giant Ericsson in 1998, made in the hopes of furthering research into software engineering.

That number—which includes 250 students who made the trek from Memphis—easily surpassed the previous record of 1,200, set just last year.

All undergraduate classes will be dismissed for the day so that UT faculty, staff and students can interact with the visitors, more than 1,700 of whom will be attending this year.

As a UT student in the 1980s, Robert McKinney remembers how Fred Brown would show up unannounced at his dorm to make sure he was studying. Brown would even walk him to class to make sure he went.