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  • Interim UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Director Selected

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    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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  • GPSAW 2023: Bingrui Li

    “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…

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  • GPSAW 2023: Maggie Spangler

    Maggie Spangler is an East Tennessee native and has been curious about science her whole life. That curiosity led her to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she majored in microbiology. Now Spangler is currently pursuing a doctorate in the Genome Science and Technology program in the UT – Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Bredesen Center.…

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  • GPSAW 2023: Emily Herron

    PhD student Emily Herron wants to design machine learning systems that can help solve scientific mysteries. She is pursuing her doctorate through the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Bredesen Center’s Data Science and Engineering program.   “The focus of my research is neural network architecture search. Specifically, my work centers on designing efficient algorithms…

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