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Celebrating Five Years of the VW Innovation Hub 

May 2, 2025

We are proud to host Volkswagen’s first university-based innovation hub outside of their own property—a distinction that reflects the depth of trust and shared ambition between our institutions. What started as a bold idea has become a shining example of what’s possible when public institutions and private industry unite around a shared vision.  

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Digital Learning Expansion Serves Land Grant Mission 

April 29, 2025

There are nearly one million Tennesseans with some college credit but no degree. We want to change that.  

By leveraging Arizona State’s expertise and success in building digital learning infrastructure, we’re able to quickly scale up our academic programs and provide more options for more students.

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Chancellor Plowman Welcomes America Makes, Celebrates UT’s Manufacturing Excellence 

October 30, 2023

Chancellor Donde Plowman touted Tennessee as a destination for advanced materials and manufacturing and stressed the importance of research universities building innovation ecosystems during a meeting of more than 200 manufacturing industry leaders from across the country at UT Knoxville’s manufacturing research facility in Hardin Valley. 

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Volkswagen, UT Partnership Drives Tennessee’s Innovation Economy  

June 6, 2023

Across the river from our campus, at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm, scientists from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Volkswagen are working side by side to develop technologies that are going to change the way we build, power, and drive vehicles—both here in the US and around the world.   These research […]

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Plowman Delivers Fourth-Annual Flagship Address

September 30, 2022

Chancellor Plowman delivered the speech Thursday in the Natalie Haslam Music Center.

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For Innovation, Companies are Turning to UT

September 1, 2022

When leading companies have a problem to solve or new technologies to develop, they increasingly turn to Tennessee’s flagship land-grant institution.

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