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UT executive David Millhorn, a UT-ORNL leader, died Monday at 72

Posted at 1:47 pm December 19, 2017
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David Millhorn

David Millhorn

 

KNOXVILLE—David Millhorn, University of Tennessee senior vice president emeritus and national laboratory relations advisor, died on Monday in Knoxville. Millhorn, who joined UT System Administration in 2005 as vice president for research and economic development, was 72.

In July, Millhorn transitioned to his most recent role with the university after having served as UT senior vice president and vice president for research, outreach, and economic development since 2016 and president of the UT Research Foundation since January 2014.

Two years after Millhorn’s service as a member of the UT president’s staff began in 2005, he took on the additional role of UT executive vice president and served in both that capacity and as vice president for research until 2016, a press release said.

Millhorn oversaw multiple, unprecedented achievements for the university’s research enterprise, the press release said. Among those, UT’s contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to manage Oak Ridge National Laboratory—in partnership with Battelle Memorial Institute of Ohio—earned two five-year extensions, in 2010 and 2015, without having to re-compete. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Battelle Memorial Institute, David Millhorn, East Tennessee Economic Council, Governor’s Chairs program, Joe DiPietro, joint UT-ORNL appointments, Muddy Boot Award, national laboratory relations advisor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Reservation, ORNL, senior vice president emeritus, supercomputer, supercomputing, Thomas Zacharia, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Cherokee Farm Innovation Campus, UT Research Foundation, UT-Battelle Awards, UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Advanced Materials

Mason leaving ORNL for Battelle

Posted at 10:58 am February 24, 2017
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Thom Mason May 23 2016

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason is pictured above on Monday, May 23, 2016, in Chattanooga. (File photo by ORNL)

 

Note: This story was last updated at 3:05 p.m.

Thom Mason, the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory since 2007, is leaving the lab for a job at Battelle.

Mason announced the move in an email to employees on Friday morning.

He will become senior vice president for laboratory operations at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio. Battelle, in partnership with the University of Tennessee, has managed and operated ORNL for the U.S. Department of Energy since April 2000.

“I’m privileged to take on the challenges that lie ahead,” Mason said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Slider, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Battelle, DOE, High Flux Isotope Reactor, Jeffrey Wadsworth, Joe DiPietro, Lamar Alexander, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Randy McNally, Ron Townsend, SNS, Spallation Neutron Source, Thom Mason, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT-Battelle

UT, ORNL host academic-industry meeting on national lab partnerships

Posted at 6:31 pm October 12, 2015
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sign

The University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will host more than 200 university leaders and heads of industry this week at the 21st General Meeting of the University-Industry Demonstration Partnership. UIDP21 will be held October 13-16 at the Hilton Downtown Knoxville and the ORNL campus.

UIDP21, an organization of 140 universities and companies, brings people from academia and industry together to have tactical conversations about innovation and research and development, a press release said.

Given the collaborative research and development relationship UT and ORNL enjoy, the focus of the Knoxville meeting is university-industry-national laboratory partnerships, the release said. Attendees will hear from speakers from seven of the U.S. Department of Energy’s national laboratories, professors, and administrators from several prominent universities, and industry leaders. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Meetings and Events, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: collaboration, Jimmy G. Cheek, Joe DiPietro, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Taylor Eighmy, Thomas Zacharia, Tony Boccanfuso, U.S. Department of Energy, UIDP21, University of Tennessee, University-Industry Demonstration Partnership, UT

UT: Expertise in materials science, additive manufacturing helps draw CVMR to Tenn.

Posted at 12:54 am March 20, 2015
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Michael Hargett and Kamran Khoza of CVMR USA

CVMR President Michael Hargett, left, and Kamran Khozan, chairman and chief executive officer, joined local, state, and federal officials on Friday, March 13, to announce they’re moving company headquarters from Toronto to Oak Ridge, investing $313 million and adding 620 jobs.

 

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd announced last week that CVMR Corporation is relocating its global headquarters to Oak Ridge from Toronto, Canada. CVMR provides materials for additive manufacturing and announced it will create 620 jobs.

During recruitment of CVMR, University of Tennessee officials assisted the state and hosted the company at UT Knoxville to visit with engineering and chemistry faculty and learn about graduate programs, such as the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, as well as internships and co-ops for students, a press release said. UT System officials provided information about technology transfer, the UT Research Foundation, and Cherokee Farm Innovation Campus. CVMR also learned more about the University’s role in leading the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, or IACMI, a $259 million partnership announced by President Barack Obama in January. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, Barack Obama, Bill Haslam, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, chemistry, College of Engineering, CVMR, CVMR Corporation, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Economic and Community Development, economic development, engineering, IACMI, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, Jimmy G. Cheek, Joe DiPietro, Kamran Khozan, Kurt Sickafus, Masood Parang, materials science, Michael Hargett, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Randy Boyd, Taylor Eighmy, Tennessee, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Knoxville, Wayne Dean

Mason, Coffey receive 2014 Muddy Boot Awards

Posted at 10:30 pm December 14, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

Thom Mason and David Coffey

Thom Mason, left, and David Coffey, right (Photo courtesy East Tennessee Economic Council)

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Two titans of East Tennessee’s business community were honored Friday with the Muddy Boot Award, given by the East Tennessee Economic Council in an ongoing tribute to individuals who through their work and activities build a better community.

This year’s honorees were Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leader of other  state and local organizations, and David Coffey, a serial entrepreneur, past member of the Tennessee General Assembly, and a leader in promoting better education in the state.

ETEC also presented two Postma Young Professional Medals. Betsy Prine, a vice president of Gilmartin Engineering Services, and Cortney Piper, principal of Piper Communications, received the medals. The Economic Council’s annual celebratory event was keynoted by Tennessee Commissioner of Finance and Administration Larry Martin. University of Tennessee President Joe DiPietro and Pete Craven also participated, with the event chaired by Bonnie Carroll of Information International Associates. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Education, Government, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Betsy Prine, Bonnie Carroll, Cortney Piper, David Coffey, East Tennessee, East Tennessee Economic Council, ETEC, Gilmartin Engineering Services, Innovation Valley, Jim Campbell, Joe DiPietro, Larry Martin, Muddy Boot Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Public Schools Education Foundation, ORNL, Pete Craven, Piper Communications, Postma Young Professional Medal, Tennessee General Assembly, Thom Mason

Remembering Howard H. Baker Jr., former U.S. senator, Reagan chief of staff

Posted at 2:06 pm June 30, 2014
By Oak Ridge Today Staff 1 Comment

Howard Baker

Howard Baker

KNOXVILLE—Howard H. Baker Jr., former U.S. senator and founder of UT’s Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, died on Thursday, June 26. He was 88.

Baker earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in 1949. UT’s Baker Center was founded in 2003 as a nonpartisan institute devoted to education and research concerning public policy and civic engagement. Baker received the university’s first honorary doctorate in spring 2005.

“Our country has lost a great statesman and a great Tennessean,” UT Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said. “Senator Baker will live on in our hearts forever as a man who believed that government was to serve the people.”

Baker’s body will lie in state at the Baker Center at 1640 Cumberland Avenue in Knoxville, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, June 30. His funeral will be on Tuesday, July 1, at First Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Tennessee, where he was born. Huntsville is in Scott County, north of Oak Ridge and Anderson County.

Matt Murray, director of the Baker Center, said the senator’s work will continue to influence students and inspire aspiring public servants for generations to come. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Federal, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: Baker Center, Bill Haslam, Bob Corker, chief of staff, Chuck Fleischmann, civic engagement, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, College of Law, Cynthia "Cissy" Baker, Darek Baker, Democrat, Doug Blaze, Howard H. Baker Jr., Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Howard Henry Baker Jr., Huntsville, Japan, Jimmy G. Cheek, Joe DiPietro, Joy Dirksen, Lamar Alexander, Matt Murray, Nancy Kassebaum, Panama Canal Treaty, public policy, public servant, Republican, Ronald Reagan, Senate, Senate majority leader, Senate minority leader, Senate Watergate Committee, Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, The Great Conciliator, U.S. ambassador, U.S. Navy, University of Tennessee, Watergate, Watergate hearings, White House

New NNSA administrator to keynote Tennessee Valley Summit

Posted at 9:51 pm May 21, 2014
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Frank Klotz

Frank Klotz, the new administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, is pictured above.

CHATTANOOGA—Retired Lt. Gen. Frank G. Klotz, the recently confirmed undersecretary for nuclear security for the U.S. Department of Energy and administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, will be a keynote speaker at the Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit in June. Along with University of Tennessee President Joe DiPetro, Klotz will speak at the event’s Leadership Luncheon, which will conclude the June 4-5 event on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Klotz was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April to lead the NNSA in its mission to improve national secruity through the military application of nuclear energy. NNSA maintains the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and is responsible for many nuclear nonproliferation, counter-terrorism, and radiological emergency response efforts for the United States as well as providing fuel for the country’s nuclear Navy. The Y-12 National Secruity Complex in Oak Ridge is one of NNSA’s most important facilities.

“Gen. Klotz occupies one of the most important jobs in the federal government to assure a strong nuclear deterrence for our nation’s security and the safety of our nuclear stockpile,” said Gerald Boyd, TVC board chair and former DOE Oak Ridge site manager. “It’s a great honor for the TVC to host one of his first public addresses as the new DOE undersecretary and NNSA administrator.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: National Nuclear Security Administration, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Chuck Fleischmann, DOE, Frank G. Klotz, Gerald Boyd, Jim Haynes, Joe DiPietro, Leadership Luncheon, Mitch Patel, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, Steven Angle, Tennessee Valley Corridor Summit, Thom Mason, Todd May, Tommy Battle, TVC, TVC National Summit, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, Y-12 National Security Complex

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