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Yilu Liu has dedicated her career to keeping America’s power on. Hired in 2009 as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Power Grids, Liu is an electrical engineer whose work focuses on developing new and better ways to monitor and understand the flow of electrical energy through the nation’s power grid. She is deputy director of…

Jeremy Smith’s research group was among the first to use high-performance computing (HPC) to search for drugs to fight the Covid virus—work that won a 2020 HPCWire prize for best supercomputing application to the life sciences. This computational work has led to experimentally verified drug candidates for dozens of diseases that are being developed. But…

Art Ragauskas grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, when the city was void of vegetation, filled with blackened rocks and fishless lakes. It was a place devasted by decades of nickel mining whose smelters were, at one point, the world’s largest point source of sulfur dioxide. Yet, when his family traveled outside the contaminated area, they…

Growing up fascinated by science, Alexei Sokolov said he has “always wanted to do something that nobody knew how to do.” That desire eventually led him to polymer science where he is now at the forefront of innovation. In the past, most industrial parts were made of metal. Now they are being made from polymers…