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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…
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Brian Wirth, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Computational Nuclear Engineerin
Read more →: Brian Wirth, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Computational Nuclear EngineerinBrian Wirth grew up in Montana near Malmstrom Air Force Base and its silo of Minuteman missiles. Going to high school during the height of the Cold War, Wirth credits a physics teacher with fueling his desire to pursue nuclear engineering as a career. Today, Wirth—the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair in Computational Nuclear Engineering—is an authority…
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Thomas Zawodzinski, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Electrical Energy Conversion and Storage
Read more →: Thomas Zawodzinski, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Electrical Energy Conversion and StorageThomas Zawodzinski has always loved learning, whether it was literature, biology, chemistry, or engineering. He describes himself as a “blue collar boy” from Buffalo, N.Y., the oldest of seven siblings, and a first-generation college student who paid his college bills with scholarship money and earnings from delivering newspapers. Always an outstanding student, he loved—and still…