Category archive for ‘Research’ 
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November 2, 2011
The Kenya Team at UT Knoxville recently received an $89,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to work with the Orphans and Vulnerable Children's Projects and Kenyatta University. The team...Read More »
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November 1, 2011
Mingjun Zhang and Scott Lenaghan in mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering study how the adhesive properties of sundew plants and the nanoparticles in English ivy can be used for innovative...Read More »
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November 1, 2011
UT Knoxville assistant professor of Anthropology, Barbara Heath, has been taking students to Virginia every summer since 2007 to excavate two sites previously owned by Thomas Jefferson. Heath hopes to...Read More »
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October 31, 2011
Bats in North America are under attack. Since 2006, more than a million have been killed. Little has been done to save them, because there has not been enough evidence...Read More »
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October 31, 2011
When he is not analyzing images from Mars, Matt Chojnacki is training on UT's exercise facilities to ensure he is physically fit for the aerial stunts he performs in Utah...Read More »
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October 28, 2011
The University of Tennessee has renamed its new energy sciences graduate research program with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in honor of its founding visionary—former Governor Phil Bredesen....Read More »
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October 28, 2011
A person who uses a manual wheelchair can burn up to 120 calories in half an hour while wheeling at 2 mph on a flat surface, which is three times...Read More »
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October 27, 2011
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation, the not-for-profit organization responsible for commercializing technology created by UT faculty, welcomes new leadership. Dick Gourley, former dean of the College of Pharmacy at...Read More »
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October 21, 2011
The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE) has a new leader. Chris Cox has been named director of ISSE, effective Monday, October 17. Cox is also professor and...Read More »
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October 18, 2011
UT researchers have found a way to make drug development faster, cheaper, and safer. The way involves making cells glow. Yes, glow. The researchers—Dan Close, Gary Saylor, Stacy Patterson, and...Read More »
