Knoxville Mercury Profiles Startup Begun at UT
The Knoxville Mercury named Grow Bioplastics, a company begun by UT students, as a likely candidate to be the next big thing.
Impact of New UT-ORNL Big Data Doctorate to Be Felt Across State
A doctoral program in big data run jointly by UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory got final clearance last week and is now the only big data doctorate in the country pairing a university and national lab. It will be housed under the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education.
UT, ORNL Study Climate’s Role in Demands Placed on Energy Grid
Joshua Fu, a UT professor of civil and environmental engineering, and his colleagues at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory are applying a new methodology for predicting the demands that future climate and population changes could place on the nation’s energy grid.
Four Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Four doctoral students have been selected to be a part of the 2016 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
Student Startup Turning Heads by Utilizing Biofuel Waste for Good
Tony Bova and Jeff Beegle have developed a process to turn that lignin into a product that would aid both the earth and the people who work it, quite literally turning one person’s trash into another one’s treasure.
Two with UT Ties Named AAAS Fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has appointed as fellows two researchers with UT ties. The association is honoring C. Neal Stewart Jr. and Parans Paranthaman for their distinguished efforts to advance science and its applications. Stewart is a professor in the Department of Plant Sciences in the UT Institute of Agriculture. He
Student Serves on Panel With Nobel Winners at Prestigious Conference
Many students take part in workshops and symposia during the summer, but Mallory Ladd got the chance to participate in a particularly notable event. Ladd, a graduate research fellow and doctoral student the joint UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, attended the sixty-fifth annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in
Nuclear Engineering Students Take Major Honors at Conference
The nuclear engineering department at UT built on a series of successes recently by bringing home eight top awards at a conference hosted by the American Nuclear Society at Texas A&M University.
Got a Question? Ask a Scientist: UT Group Helping Movement Grow
Ask-A-Scientist started when scientist Matt Bishop was having his car towed in Los Alamos, New Mexico, last summer and the tow truck driver and his son asked him questions ranging from robotics to genetics.
Unintended Anti-Nuclear Consequences Lurking in the EPA Clean Power Plan
A group of six students have written a detailed comment to the proposed Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan which is open for public comment. An article by two of the students, Justin Knowles and Remy DeVoe, is featured on the American Nuclear Society website. The students’ comment discusses the plan’s inconsistencies and the corresponding
This Week’s Science Forum to Look at Alternative Transportation Issues
This week’s Science Forum at UT will look at alternative transportation energy sources and innovations. Claus Daniel, deputy director of the Sustainable Transportation program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, will talk on “Electrification of Transportation: Cost and Opportunities.” His discussion begins at noon on Friday, September 19, in Room C-D of Thompson-Boling Arena.
Bredesen Center Graduates First Class, Sees Phenomenal Growth
Two students will be the first to earn a new doctoral degree Thursday from the Energy Science and Engineering program founded by former governor Phil Bredesen in partnership with UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.