Grand Challenges

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Grand Challenges

People-Centric Workplaces

The UT Center for Industrial Services and the UT Knoxville Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering have long recognized the power of great workplaces.

Narcan kit with all its contents.
Grand Challenges

Searching for Chocolate Chips

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.

An illustration of a tornado made of drugs, spinning through a small town.
Grand Challenges

Disease Realities

Tennessee is in the throes of a substance abuse epidemic. It’s time for us all to get SMART.