When Robert Davis was a youngster, he was captivated by a Life magazine story about mercury contamination causing horrific health issues in Japan. It sparked an interest that led him to study biology and medicine. “I wanted to save the world and help people,” said Davis, who was appointed as the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge…
Since he was young, Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula has been intrigued with understanding how things work. “I was fortunate to go to a special science high school in the Philippines,” said Advincula, the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Professor of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials. He enjoyed learning the science behind the behavior of everyday objects, such as how…
From studying the cause of alligator illnesses to providing expertise in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to monitoring campus wastewater for the Covid virus, Terry Hazen has always been fascinated by the ramification of stressed environments. Hazen was appointed as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology when he came to UT…
Yilu Liu has dedicated her career to keeping America’s power on. Hired in 2009 as the UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Power Grids, Liu is an electrical engineer whose work focuses on developing new and better ways to monitor and understand the flow of electrical energy through the nation’s power grid. She is deputy director of…