Gizmag covers an invention by Jayne Wu, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Shigetoshi Eda, associate professor of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at the UT Institute of Agriculture Center for Wildlife Health.
Katie Riley’s big idea has translated into big help for a destitute community. In 2009, she organized “Fierce and Fancy,” an event where people donated old formal dresses for a fashion show and silent auction to raise money for a Haitian community. The Haiti Outreach Program and the UT Haiti Club will host its third
Chris Cherry, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, discusses electric cars with WBIR-TV news anchor Robin Wilhoit. Cherry recently conducted a study in China which discovered that the use of electric vehicles may not be as clean as originally thought.
Current students and recent graduates now can receive their academic transcripts online. The new system creates a copy of the transcript in the Adobe Acrobat pdf format and e-mails it to the requester within an hour after the transcript is ordered.