The research of a UT professor working to create a battery that packs several thousand times more energy than batteries used today has received a boost from Oak Ridge Associated Universities. Eric Lukosi, an assistant professor in nuclear engineering, received a $10,000 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, including $5,000 from ORAU and $5,000
A UT research study shows Volkswagen’s assembly plant in Chattanooga is responsible for more than $643 million in annual income. The facility has created 12,400 fulltime jobs, including suppliers and associated businesses, and is pumping $53.5 million of tax dollars into state and local government coffers, according to the study conducted by the Center for Business
A recent UT report shows that falling unemployment rates, an increase in vehicle sales, and a long-awaited rebound in the residential housing market are all indications that the national and state economies are making a comeback. The spring 2013 Tennessee Business and Economic Outlook shows that despite sequestration of federal spending and a payroll tax
Elgin Kintner had two passions outside of his practice as a physician in Maryville — photography and hiking. He combined the interests in a collection of panoramas of the Great Smoky Mountains he snapped on his hikes. Though Kintner died at age 90 in 2008, his private photographs are available for all to see now thanks
The Knoxville News Sentinel took a tour of the campus’s new transit buses, which feature GPS tracking and USB charging stations, and run on the highest level of biodiesel fuel, decreasing the amount of soot emissions into the atmosphere. The newspaper spoke with Jake Baker, Student Government Association president, and Mark Hairr, Parking and Transit