Tasimba Jonga, a senior in chemical and biomolecular engineering, completed co-ops with Bayer AG and Dow Chemical Company as part of his undergrad experience.
Jindong Tan
BME Professor Jindong Tan is using a $1 million NSF grant to develop a fully insertable robotic imaging device for laparoscopic surgeries.
Arthur Ragauskas
Arthur Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Biorefining, is part of a team improving the usefulness of biomass by increasing the sugars they yields.
Artistic shot of Solar Panels
An interdisciplinary team is working to understand the use of residential solar panels at with a goal of helping policymakers better understand their deployment and adaptation.
A UT researcher is partering with Carbon Rivers on a $1.1M DoE grant to recycle wind turbine blades for new composite applications. The novel process limits mechanical degradation and has attracted the attention of industry.
Sunrise over River Bluff
In recent years, we have seen record enrollment, patents, research expenditures, and faculty building a foundation for the future—the future of a college on the rise.
Mahshid Ahmadi in an MSE Lab
MSE Assistant Professor Mahshid Ahmadi received an NSF CAREER Award to further her research into OIHP materials—important for solar farms, medical innovations, and more.
MSE Student Holding Samples
MSE Assistant Professor Katherine Page wanted two outstanding undergrads to prepare them to think like future research scientist which she found in Alexandria Carter and Noah Sloan.
Microbe Illustration
Qiang He and Shuai Li have paired their expertise to pursue a unique and novel strategy—disease-resistant buildings resilient to pathogen transmission.
Sputtering Lab
It’s been one year since the UT received a prestigious Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and the collaborations have led to breakthroughs in the lab and an appreciation for a different style of research.

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