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.
Chancellor Donde Plowman appeared in October on WBIR’s local politics show Inside Tennessee, where she celebrated UT Knoxville’s growing momentum. In the wide-ranging interview, hosts John Becker and John North asked the chancellor about record-breaking enrollment, research partnerships, and the university’s three new academic colleges and schools. “This university is changing and becoming an even […]
Across the university, UT is on the rise—and research is no exception. This year, we received a record-breaking $428 million in research awards and sponsored projects funding. Industry leaders and government agencies are turning to UT for our expertise and capability to tackle complicated problems with real-world implications. From advanced materials and manufacturing […]
Agriculture is, and always has been, a vital industry for our state—it is both our heritage and our future.
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 […]
UT is paving the way for a new era of humanities and creative work—one that connects the exploration of the human experience with fields like medicine, energy and environmental sciences, and data studies.
When national leaders needed an expert on the future of artificial intelligence and the national security challenges it presents, they called on UT Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Lynne Parker. Parker testified recently at a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing focused on the use of AI by government agencies. Her remarks and […]
UT faculty are at the forefront of their fields and creating solutions that will transform industries and the world we live in. They are creating new lightweight composites to build bridges and cars, developing the next generation of artificial intelligence technology, and finding new strategies for improving literacy skills of young students. The discoveries taking […]
Tennessee is poised to be the next great American innovation hub, Chancellor Donde Plowman posits in an editorial that ran in the Nashville Tennessean and the Knoxville News Sentinel.
Chancellor Donde Plowman of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Clemson University President Jim Clements celebrated their universities’ shared mission as land-grant institutions in a guest editorial that ran in the Miami Herald the day before the schools competed in the Orange Bowl in South Florida. The editorial notes that while the leaders may disagree […]
