Congratulations to Katherine Asmussen, research assistant professor with UT-ORII’s Transportation Convergent Research Initiative and UTK’s Center for Transportation Research, on receiving an award for her project – Consumer Acceptance of Automated Vehicles: Evidence from a Newly Deployed U.S. Survey and Stated-Preference Experiment. With this award, her research project aims to provide evidence-based insights to help cities…
Congratulations to Rachel Perkins, assistant professor in the department of pathology at the The University of Tennessee Health Science Center and UT-ORII’s Radiopharmaceutical Therapies Convergent Research Initiative, for receiving the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Faculty Scholar Award in the field of Cancer Research! This award will fund Perkins’ participation in the AACR 2026…
In February, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Program – one of Tennessee’s most successful and enduring investments in scientific leadership, discovery, and innovation – celebrated its 20th anniversary. “The Governor’s Chair program is all about ORNL and the University of Tennessee coming together to do great things—things that neither of us could do alone, and that’s been…
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Cookeville, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2025) — Regional leaders joined sixth graders at Algood Middle School today to launch STEMOVATE: Powering Tennessee’s Future Innovators, a new program delivering hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities to classrooms in 22 counties across Tennessee. The University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII) is partnering with Tennessee 4-H, the Oak…