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UT-ORII’s Science Alliance announced its latest Support for Affiliated Research Teams (StART) grant recipients. Each STaRT research project will receive around $100,000 in funding. Yingwen Cheng – Fast-Charging Aqueous Na-ion Batteries Ria Corder – Materials Formulation Via Melt Rheology for Reactive Extrusion and Advanced Manufacturing of Bio-Based Polymer Composites Hanno Weitering – Materials for Interfacing…

UT-ORII, the UT Institute of Agriculture’s 4-H youth program and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education are partnering in a yearlong pilot to bring fun, interactive STEM lessons to sixth graders in four counties across the state. 4-H agents are rolling out activities in artificial intelligence, kinetic energy, circuit design, invasive species, renewable…

We are excited to celebrate Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s 14 R&D 100 Research awards and all the ORNL and UT team members who were part of this year’s winning ORNL teams.  Amongst these winners are UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Yilu Liu and several UT-ORNL joint faculty, including at least 12 who serve as Bredesen Center faculty…

August 13, 2024 – The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education has named Todd Reynolds as interim program director of its Genome Science and Technology (GST) graduate program. UT Professor Albrecht von Arnim, who led GST for 14 years, recently stepped down and returned to a full-time…