News Sentinel: UT grad headed to outer space
The Knoxville News Sentinel featured an article on Barry “Butch” Wilmore, a UT graduate, who will take command of the International Space Station in November.
UT Alumnus to Serve as Commander at International Space Station
UT alumnus and NASA astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore will command the next crew to launch to the International Space Station.
Faculty News and Notes
Honors and awards for the university’s faculty and graduate students.
UTSI Professor Honored by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Joseph Majdalani, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the H. H. Arnold Chair of Excellence in Advanced Propulsion at the UTSI, was honored at the annual award luncheon, hosted by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Tennessee Section.
Faculty News and Notes
Honors and awards for the university’s faculty and graduate students.
Professor Majdalani’s Teams at UTSI Win Best Paper Awards at AIAA Conference for Fourth Year
For the fourth year in a row, Professor Joe Majdalani’s teams at the University of Tennessee Space Institute have won best papers at the sixty-fourth American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Southeastern Regional Student Conference. The UTSI teams competed against more than 200 graduate and undergraduate students in Raleigh, North Carolina.
UTSI Professor and Student Win Aerospace Awards
Joseph Majdalani, the Arnold Chair of Excellence in Advanced Propulsion at the UT Space Institute, was honored with the Abe M. Zarem Educator Award at the fifty-first Aerospace Sciences Meeting. UTSI graduate student Charles Haddad was also honored with the Abe M. Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement in Astronautics.
Big Idea: Professor’s Invention Seeks to Destroy Cancer
Christian Parigger, associate professor of physics at the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma, wants to advance the fight against cancer. His big idea: develop a technology that goes on a “seek and destroy” mission for cancerous tumors. His invention uses a femtosecond laser to focus in on a specific region to find and acutely map
Space Institute Researchers Make Clinical Trials a Virtual Reality
Clinical trials can be time-consuming, expensive and intrusive, but they are also necessary. Researchers at the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed an invention that makes clinical trials more efficient by moving them into the virtual world.
Space Institute Researchers Develop Laser Technology to Fight Cancer
Researchers at the Center for Laser Applications at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma have developed a technology that goes on a “seek and destroy” mission for cancerous tumors. They have harnessed the power of lasers to find, map, and non-invasively destruct cancerous tumors.
Professor Majdalani’s Teams at UTSI Win Best Paper Awards at AIAA Conference for Third Year
For the third year in a row, Professor Joe Majdalani’s teams at the University of Tennessee Space Institute have won best papers at the sixty-third American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Southeastern Regional Student Conference. The UTSI teams competed against more than 200 graduate and undergraduate students in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
UT Researchers Develop Comprehensive, Accessible Vision Testing Device
Eighty-five percent of children’s learning is related to vision. Yet in the US, 80 percent of children have never had an eye exam or any vision screening before kindergarten, statistics say. Three researchers at the UT Space Institute are working to change that with an invention that makes children eye exams simple to inexpensive, comprehensive,