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In this issue’s article Staying Curious, Lee Ferguson writes, “Behind every breakthrough is a pipeline of early career scientists, experiments that fail before they succeed and institutions willing to invest in ideas before their impact is obvious.”

That happens at the UT Health Science Center and across the university.

We give undergraduates the opportunities to learn and graduate students a chance to make discoveries. We bring students from across the nation to learn through our Student Mentoring and Research Training internship—some who then enroll as graduate students. Our scientists and researchers work to make this world better, whether through researching cancer or investigating restoring streams. UT is willing to invest in ways that help the state and far beyond—from developing future scientists and increasing national security to helping farmers become more productively precise. We know that what happens in our classrooms, laboratories and fields can change the world.

As UTC student Gillian Morton says about her research into social and environmental impacts on health, “You’re trying to improve real people’s lives.”

This is UT.

In the following pages, learn just a little about what we’re doing to better the world. Then drop us an email at ourtennessee@tennessee.edu to share how you see UT research impacting the world.

Jennifer Sicking,
Executive Editor