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Deadline for proposals: Sept. 15 The University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute is seeking ideas from UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers for new Convergent Research Initiatives. Proposed initiatives should represent emerging areas of strength for UT and ORNL, and areas of national and statewide importance. Each approved convergent research initiative will receive around…

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…