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With $5M Award, NSF Selects UT to Lead Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts

The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to start tackling one of the world’s biggest scientific challenges. UT’s award is part of the 2024 Global Centers competition, a nearly $82 million international funding collaboration among agencies in the US, Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic […]




Four TCE Faculty Elected AAAS Fellows

Rigoberto Advincula, Takeshi Egami, Sergei Kalinin, and Michela Tafur have been elected fellow of the American Association for Advancement Sciences.






Trinh Lab’s New Yeast Strain Upcycles Stubborn Plastics

Professor Trinh has helped develop a yeast strain that can upcycle polyolefin plastic, a major pollutant, into useful biochemicals and biodegradable plastics.