UT Student Named Goldwater Scholar
UT sophomore Tyler Myers has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar.
UT sophomore Tyler Myers has been named a 2023 Goldwater Scholar.
UT’s fall undergraduate commencement and graduate hooding ceremonies will be held December 9 and 10 at Thompson-Boling Arena.
In the midst of research, teaching, coursework, and a personal life, Bikash Bogati found that volunteering in the Knoxville community created a calmness in his life.
Karen Lloyd delivered a conference keynote address remotely—from her laptop, with her six-year-old daughter, Mary Jon, perched on her knees.
A UT microbiologist has received a portion of a $3.1 million grant from the US Department of Energy to study how global warming could affect peatlands and their vast carbon stores in the future.
As permafrost thaws, microbes break down the newly available carbon in the soil, possibly resulting in a flux of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter, according to a study coauthored by UT professors.
By acting as gatekeepers, microbes can affect geological processes that move carbon from the earth’s surface into its deep interior, according to a study published in Nature and coauthored by microbiologists at UT.
Marine microbes are uniquely responsible for carrying out processes that are essential for all of earth’s biogeochemical cycles, including many that play a role in climate change.
Microorganisms living underneath the surface of the earth have a total carbon mass of 15 to 23 billion tons, hundreds of times more than that of humans, according to findings announced by the Deep Carbon Observatory and coauthored by UT Professor of Microbiology Karen Lloyd.
The National Science Foundation announced support for a variety of studies aimed at understanding Earth’s biodiversity, including a project led by UT’s Frank Loeffler.
Research led by Karen Lloyd says that uncultured microbes could be dominating nearly all the environments on earth except for the human body.