In February 2018, a team from Eastman Chemical Company visited Dayakar Penumadu’s materials research lab with a request. The UT Knoxville team’s answer is likely to yield impacts on material sustainability and durability for car tires in the future. Continue reading Inside Rubber’s Soul
Twenty-first century medical appointments are a predictable affair: syringes, stethoscopes, thermometers and the like. But the Middle Age’s medico-magical methods were anything but predictable—that’s why they caught the attention of a UTC professor. Continue reading No Hard and Fast Lines
From her days as a first-generation college student at UT Martin to her current role on the front line of cancer drug research at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, Renee Bailey Iacona’s journey can only be described as a series of serendipitous moments. Continue reading ‘Series of Serendipitous Moments’
Nearly 28 million people are currently enslaved around the world, with traffickers raking in $150 billion a year. UT Southern Assistant Professor and Program Chair of Criminology and Homeland Security Richard Schoeberl works to help solve this crisis. Continue reading ‘Something Had to be Done’
Jack Daniels needs specific trees to create its iconic whiskey. UTIA has been there to help ensure the brand can continue for many more generations. Continue reading Whiskey and Trees
UTHSC Jim Bailey and his team lead the research effort to improve the heart health of Tennesseans, whose state ranks third in the nation in cardiovascular events. But the team isn’t working in a lab—they’re working in the community. Continue reading In The Heart of Communities
A new program will allow those dealing with drug addiction to test street drugs for the presence of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl. UT’s SMART initiative will help determine if it works. Continue reading Searching for Chocolate Chips
David Lockwood has toiled alongside Tennessee fruit growers for nearly 50 years—its work he was, quite literally, born to do. Continue reading A Fruitful Career
The UT Research Foundation moves ideas and discoveries by faculty, staff and students from the laboratories and classrooms to the marketplace. Continue reading Making An Impact
At what point does a challenge become too challenging? For the UT System, the answer is never. We’re tackling the state’s Grand Challenges head-on. Continue reading Untangling a State
Tennessee is in the throes of a substance abuse epidemic. It’s time for us all to get SMART. Continue reading Disease Realities
Even when Alzheimer’s is detected early, its effects are inescapable. Often the earliest symptom to appear? Fear of the unknown. Continue reading The Unknown
Now more than ever, educators need extra support. At UT Martin, support abounds. Continue reading Meant to Do
If the manufacturing industry were a brick-and-mortar building, the sign on its window would read “help wanted.” UT Knoxville, however, would be lined up outside the door. Continue reading Manufacturing Renaissance
Tennessee’s literacy story needs a happier ending. UT is helping to rewrite one. Continue reading Good Reading
How can rural communities find success when dialogue about them shoves them into pre-constructed boxes? The Turner Center for Rural Vitality has a solution. Continue reading Changing The Narrative
Tennessee has a maternal health crisis. The passion and education carried by the 16 students in the UTHSC nurse midwifery program can begin to rectify it. Continue reading Changing Outcomes
Nobody wants to talk about money. But, according to the UT Extension Family and Consumer Sciences team, everybody needs to be doing just that—even second and third graders. Continue reading Breaking Barriers
What would life today be like without the internet? For many rural Tennesseans, the experience isn’t one that needs imagination—it’s a daily reality. Continue reading No One-Size Solution
With our five campuses and two institutes, the University of Tennessee System can uniquely collaborate within the system and with communities across the state to solve problems so future generations can thrive. Continue reading Grand Challenges in Tennessee
Music weaves throughout this UT Knoxville couple’s story of a friendship turned to love. Continue reading The Troubadour and the Songstress
UT Libraries purchased Beauford Delaney’s personal archives to bring the Harlem Renaissance painter home. Continue reading Carried in His Heart
A UTC alumna uses music to change health care. Continue reading A Musical Revolution
