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Science alliance announces 2025-26 GAte Award recipients

UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Science Alliance is proud to announce the 2025–26 GATE (Graduate Advancement, Training, and Education) award recipients — 11 outstanding graduate students from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville!Congratulations to:Pradip AdhikariLia AmaliaSam GruberAnik MuhuryJason OlavesenMd. Saif Hassan OnimEmily ProehlOpeyemi TadeBipin T.Xudong WangHahley Marie WiltseThis year’s GATE awards represent an investment of over $600,000… Read More >
Graduate Research Assistant Anna Jones wins two scholarships for her Pancreatic cancer research

UTK PhD student Anna Jones is making strides in cancer research — and she’s just been awarded two scholarships from the American Nuclear Society (ANS): the 2025-2026 Gozani Family Graduate Scholarship and the 2025-2026 Oak Ridge/Knoxville Local Section Scholarship. Jones’ groundbreaking work with UT-ORII’s Radiopharmaceutical Therapies Convergent Research Initiative team is focused on developing new ways to diagnose and treat… Read More >
Imel and ZawodzinSki awarded $1.1 million for DOD sponsored project

UT-ORII researcher Adam Imel and UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Governor Chair Thomas Zawodzinski were awarded $1.1 million for their Dispersions and Degradation Project, a 3-year Department of Defense-sponsored project with Aerojet Rocketdyne. This project will be completed under UT-ORII’s Energy Storage and Transportation Convergent Research Initiative. Imel is a research assistant professor in… Read More >
key leader in UT-ORII’s Radiopharmaceutical Therapies CRI Gabor Tigyi receives János Arany Lifetime Achievement Award

Congratulations to Dr. Gabor Tigyi on receiving the prestigious János Arany Lifetime Achievement Award — the highest international honor from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). This award recognizes scientists of Hungarian descent whose groundbreaking work has made an extraordinary impact on global science and elevated the international reputation of HAS. Dr. Tigyi is being… Read More >