Category archive for ‘Research’ 
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September 24, 2013
The asteroid Vesta and the Dawn mission that uncovered its mysteries will be the topic of Friday's Science Forum. Hap McSween, Chancellor's Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will present...Read More »
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September 23, 2013
Tornado forecasting remains a persistent challenge. Researchers using supercomputers at the National Institute for Computational Sciences are trying to change this. Modest hardware enables researchers to simulate a supercell, said...Read More »
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September 19, 2013
The interactions between microbes and their environments, specifically in Antarctica, will be discussed at UT's continuing Science Forum. Jill Mikucki, assistant professor of microbiology, will present "Antarctica: Exploring Ecosystems Below...Read More »
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September 17, 2013
The UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Joint Institute for Computational Sciences—and UT’s Office of Information Technology—have announced final plans to upgrade the bandwidth of UT’s wide area network for research and...Read More »
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September 17, 2013
Six acclaimed writers with connections to UT will read and perform their work at Ijams Nature Center on Sunday, September 22. "Letters to the Earth: Songs and Poems of Conservation"...Read More »
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September 17, 2013
The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering's rolling hybrid vehicle laboratory has received a boost. Denso North American Foundation has donated $50,000 to the lab. The hybrid vehicle...Read More »
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September 13, 2013
The McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture will continue its fiftieth anniversary celebration on September 18 with a lecture about the shaping of eastern North America's landscape. William A....Read More »
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September 12, 2013
Chief executive officers who engage in unethical conduct for their own personal benefit tend to be part of firms that participate in other forms of corporate misbehavior, according to a...Read More »
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September 11, 2013
Living Light, the solar house built for the 2011 US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, will be the topic of the second Science Forum of the semester. Amy Howard, architect...Read More »
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September 10, 2013
Some things are not always what they seem—even in space. For thirty years, scientists believed a large near-Earth object was an asteroid. Now, an international team including Joshua Emery, assistant...Read More »
