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UT Students, ORNL Team Up to Improve Lightning Protection on Wind Turbine Blades

Students from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering teams up with ORNL to protect wind turbines from lightning strikes.



Volkswagen, UT, and ORNL Announce Partnership, Innovation Hub

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is partnering with Volkswagen and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to start an innovation hub in East Tennessee.



UT Adds Advanced Manufacturing Certificate, Considers Degree Program

“We have experts in advanced materials, in polymers, in additive and subtractive techniques, and in metals,” said Doug Aaron, assistant head of undergraduate programs in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering (MABE), who is overseeing the new program.




UT Researches Effects of Fracking on Water Health

Terry Hazen, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair, is looking at how aquatic microbial communities are impacted by biocides associated with hydraulic fracking.


Zawodzinski to Lead Department of Energy Fuel Cell Project

The US DOE has chosen a project led by UT–ORNL Governor’s Chair Thomas Zawodzinski as recipient of Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy grants.