Brynn Voy, UT Faculty Member and Former ORNL Scientist, Steps Into New Role Aug. 1 KNOXVILLE, TN – July 25, 2023 —The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute has selected Brynn Voy as education and Bredesen Center director, effective Aug. 1. Voy will lead the institute’s efforts to expand UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s joint graduate…
Rigoberto Advincula, the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials and 2023 winner of the Netzsch North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS) Fellows Award, recently served on a panel that reviewed some of the most important advances in the past five decades of materials research at Symposium X at the Materials Research Society’s (MRS)…
June 12, 2023 — David Sholl has been named the interim executive director of the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII). Sholl will assume the leadership role on June 12. Joan Bienvenue, the institute’s inaugural executive director, has accepted a position at the University of Texas System and will be leaving at the end…
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“Being able to work in UT and ORNL simultaneously is a game changer for my research,” Bingrui Li said. Li is pursuing a doctorate through University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Bredesen Center’s Energy Science and Engineering program. He is working on the development and application of self-healing polymers, materials that could one day…