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Art Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining
Read more →: Art Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for BiorefiningArt 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…
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Alexei P. Sokolov, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Polymer Science
Read more →: Alexei P. Sokolov, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Polymer ScienceGrowing 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…
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Uday Vaidya, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing
Read more →: Uday Vaidya, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites ManufacturingUday Vaidya, the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing, is getting students excited about STEM and is a driving force in making the university a major player in the field of composites. Vaidya’s interest in composite materials was sparked during college when he worked on a project related…
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Robert W. Williams, UTHSC-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Computational Genomics
Read more →: Robert W. Williams, UTHSC-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Computational GenomicsImagine if health care providers were to study your DNA sequence, behaviors and lifestyle, then provide personalized advice to prevent disease and prescribe tailored treatments to improve health. That’s the idea behind “precision medicine.” “The problem,” said Robert Williams, UT Health Science Center-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Computational Genomics, “is that everyone of…