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Marathe a featured innovator
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Read more →: Marathe a featured innovatorResearch Assistant Professor Umesh Marathe with UT-ORII’s Circular Bioeconomy Convergent Research Initiative was a UT Research Foundation featured innovator for his new open disclosure. What if the plastic cap on your favorite beverage could simply biodegrade after use — without any change to how it’s made? That’s exactly what Marathe’s team is working toward. They’ve…
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Bredesen Center Hosts 2026 Recruit visit
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Read more →: Bredesen Center Hosts 2026 Recruit visitAt the beginning of March, the Bredesen Center welcomed more than 30 prospective students for its 2026 Recruit Visit. All the students have been admitted to one of the Center’s three interdisciplinary Ph.D. programs, with some already accepting their offers and others visiting to determine whether the Bredesen Center is the right fit for their graduate…
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Asmussen Receives funding for transportation project
Read more →: Asmussen Receives funding for transportation projectCongratulations 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…
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Perkins Receives AACR Faculty Scholar Award for Her Cancer research
Read more →: Perkins Receives AACR Faculty Scholar Award for Her Cancer researchCongratulations 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…