Jeremy Smith’s research group was among the first to use high-performance computing (HPC) to search for drugs to fight the Covid virus—work that won a 2020 HPCWire prize for best supercomputing application to the life sciences. This computational work has led to experimentally verified drug candidates for dozens of diseases that are being developed. But…
Art Ragauskas grew up in Sudbury, Ontario, when the city was void of vegetation, filled with blackened rocks and fishless lakes. It was a place devasted by decades of nickel mining whose smelters were, at one point, the world’s largest point source of sulfur dioxide. Yet, when his family traveled outside the contaminated area, they…
Growing up fascinated by science, Alexei Sokolov said he has “always wanted to do something that nobody knew how to do.” That desire eventually led him to polymer science where he is now at the forefront of innovation. In the past, most industrial parts were made of metal. Now they are being made from polymers…
Uday 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…