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UT to require masks indoors

Posted at 2:40 pm August 2, 2021
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The University of Tennessee will require face masks indoors this fall semester.

Masks will be required in classrooms, laboratories, other places of instruction, and any indoor events that students are required to attend, UT said in a press release Monday.

The university may be the first school in the area to announce a mask requirement as the delta variant of the new coronavirus spreads in Tennessee and across the United States. Masks are not currently required in Oak Ridge Schools.

In the press release, UT System President Randy Boyd urged students, faculty, and staff members to talk with their families and healthcare providers about the benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccination.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: College, COVID-19, Education, Front Page News, Health Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, face masks, masks, Randy Boyd, University of Tennessee, UT

Volkswagen, UT, ORNL announce collaboration, innovation hub

Posted at 7:36 am January 17, 2020
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Volkswagen Group of America will lease space in the Innovation North building on the UT Research Park campus. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee)

Volkswagen Group of America, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the University of Tennessee on Friday announced a collaboration to create Volkswagen’s first innovation hub in North America at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm.

“Working with the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a great opportunity to continue growing Volkswagen’s engineering footprint in the North American region,” said Wolfgang Demmelbauer-Ebner, executive vice president and chief engineering officer for Volkswagen’s North American region. “This hub, along with other research institutions here, is an integral part of Volkswagen’s global research and development efforts and can also directly contribute to vehicles in North America.”

The collaboration involves research opportunities for doctoral students and space in the Innovation North building at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm in Knoxville, a press release said. Initial work will focus on developing lighter vehicle components made from composite materials and the electrification of vehicles.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, College, Education, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Cherokee Farm, Donde Plowman, IACMI, Innovation Hub, Innovation North, Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Randy Boyd, Thomas Zacharia, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Research Park, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Group of America, Wolfgang Demmelbauer-Ebner

Suresh Babu to lead UT-ORNL Bredesen Center

Posted at 4:49 pm December 30, 2018
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Suresh Babu

Suresh Babu

Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee in Knoxville have selected Suresh Babu as the next director of their jointly operated Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education.

Babu will retain his position as UT-ORNL governor’s chair for advanced manufacturing when he assumes his new role on January 3, a press release said. He will be replacing Lee Riedinger, who is retiring at the end of January.

“Dr. Babu has worked extensively with both UT and ORNL through his governor’s chair position, and we’re excited about him taking on this new role,” UT Knoxville Interim Chancellor Wayne T. Davis said in the press release. “He is a nationally recognized expert in the development of advanced materials and advanced manufacturing and has helped us emerge as a leader in those critical research areas.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Bredesen Center, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, IACMI—The Composites Institute, Lee Riedinger, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, Phil Bredesen, Suresh Babu, Thomas Zacharia, Tickle College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, UT, UT-ORNL Bredesen Center, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing, Wayne T. Davis

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

UT students, faculty members safe after London attacks

Posted at 1:10 pm June 5, 2017
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Officials have accounted for the 43 University of Tennessee students and four faculty members in London, and all are safe, UT said Monday.

Oak Ridge Today has received a report that one of the students is from Oak Ridge, but UT wasn’t able to confirm that. A spokesperson said she didn’t have access to student information.

“I can tell you we have 43 students and four faculty members in London, and all have been accounted for/are safe,” said Katherine Saxon, UT coordinator for student communications and social media team member. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Police and Fire Tagged With: CNN, Katherine Saxon, London, London Bridge, terror attacks, University of Tennessee, UT

ORNL: UT-Battelle Scholarship awarded to Bearden student

Posted at 11:49 am May 16, 2017
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UT-Battelle Scholarship winner Allison Michelle Campbell of Bearden High School with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason. (Photo by ORNL)

UT-Battelle Scholarship winner Allison Michelle Campbell of Bearden High School with Oak Ridge National Laboratory Director Thom Mason. (Photo by ORNL)

 

Bearden High School senior Allison Michelle Campbell has been named recipient of the 2017 UT-Battelle Scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee.

The scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior planning to study science, mathematics, or engineering at UT. The competitive scholarship is presented annually to a graduating student with a parent employed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory by UT-Battelle, ORNL’s managing contractor, a press release said.

The scholarship is renewable for up to four years and is worth a total of $20,000. Campbell is the daughter of ORNL staff member Amy C. Campbell, who works in the Business Services Directorate, and Michael A. Campbell.

Among numerous activities at Bearden, Campbell is president of Bearden’s National Honors Society chapter and a member of the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honors society. In the summer of 2015, she was selected for the Governor’s School for Science and Engineering and the National Science Foundation’s Young Scholars Program. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Allison Michelle Campbell, Amy C. Campbell, Bearden High School, hydrocephalus, Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, Michael A. Campbell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Suresh Babu, Thom Mason, U.S. Department of Energy, UT, UT-Battelle, UT-Battelle Scholarship

A first of its kind: UT, ORNL offer ‘big data’ doctorate

Posted at 10:42 am May 15, 2017
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The use of big data—collecting and interpreting vast amounts of information—has rapidly grown in importance across areas ranging from health care to nuclear security.

To help meet that demand, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a first-of-its kind data science and engineering doctoral program, the only one in the United States to pair a university and national laboratory and one of just three such big data doctoral programs in the U.S. overall, a press release said.

The program, which was announced at the spring UT Board of Trustees meeting, hopes to enroll 15 Ph.D. candidates when it begins this fall, with the eventual goal of having 100 students at any given time.

In granting approval for the new program last week, the Tennessee Higher Education Commission noted that it is an answer to its call for the state’s higher education institutions to strengthen graduate-level education and address challenges befitting top research institutions, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: big data, big data doctorate, Bill Haslam, Bredesen Center, Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Communication and Information, College of Engineering, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Haslam College of Business, John Kobza, Lee Riedinger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Russell Zaretzki, Shaun Gleason, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Tickle College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, UT, UT Board of Trustees, UT Chattanooga, UT Health Science Center, UT Knoxville

UT students studied how to use Centennial for more than golf; hear their recommendations Tuesday

Posted at 12:16 pm April 23, 2017
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Centennial Golf Course in east Oak Ridge is pictured above. (Photo courtesy City of Oak Ridge)

Centennial Golf Course in east Oak Ridge is pictured above. (Photo courtesy City of Oak Ridge)

 

A team of graduate business students at the University of Tennessee have studied ways the city can use Centennial Golf Course for more than just golf, and the students will present their recommendations on Tuesday. The meeting is open to the public.

The graduate students are from UT’s Master of Business Administration, or MBA, program. They will present their recommendations from a recent “Innovations in Practice” project to the City of Oak Ridge at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the Oak Ridge Municipal Building Courtroom.

There has been discussion of how to increase revenues at the golf course, including at Oak Ridge City Council meetings when the city has been asked to provide more money for the golf course.

A press release said the study of Centennial Golf Course took the group of four MBA students approximately seven weeks to complete. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Recreation, Sports Tagged With: Centennial Golf Course, City of Oak Ridge, golf, golf course, Haslam College of Business, Master of Business Administration, MBA, University of Tennessee, UT, UT MBA Innovations in Practice: Using the Golf Course for More than Just Golf

UT, NOAA to collaborate on atmospheric sciences research

Posted at 1:07 pm February 21, 2017
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Taylor Eighmy, UT vice chancellor for research and engagement, left, and Bruce Baker, director of NOAA’s Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, headquartered in Oak Ridge, right, sign a memorandum of agreement in Oak Ridge on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee)

Taylor Eighmy, left, UT vice chancellor for research and engagement, and Bruce Baker, right, director of NOAA’s Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, which has headquarters in Oak Ridge, sign a memorandum of agreement in Oak Ridge on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee)

 

The University of Tennessee in Knoxville has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, or ATDD, of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Air Resources Laboratory to advance collaborative research in atmospheric sciences. ATDD has headquarters in Oak Ridge.

The agreement was signed Wednesday, February 15, at ATDD headquarters in Oak Ridge, and it will help with joint efforts to advance understanding of air pollution, atmospheric transport processes, and weather on a regional and national level, a press release said. It also will create educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to collect scientific data, develop models and simulations, and transition research to applications and commercial use.

“The mission of the collaboration will be to train the next generation of scientists and engineers and provide the best available atmospheric data and scientific analysis to the global scientific community, to local and national decision makers, and to the general public,” said Bruce Baker, director of the ATDD. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Top Stories Tagged With: air pollution, Air Resources Laboratory, air-surface exchange measurements, airborne remote sensing, ATDD, atmospheric data, atmospheric science, atmospheric sciences, atmospheric sciences research, atmospheric transport processes, Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Bruce Baker, David Millhorn, forest canopy studies, Joshua Fu, memorandum of agreement, meteorological research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, severe weather research, Taylor Eighmy, University of Tennessee, UT, weather

UT Arboretum Society has global warming, climate change program Thursday

Posted at 8:07 pm January 15, 2017
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Joanne Logan

Joanne Logan

The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society will present a program on global warming and climate change on Thursday in Oak Ridge.

The program, titled “It’s all in the Timing: Impacts of Global Warming on Ecosystems and Phenology,” is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, January 19, in the City Room at Roane State Community College.

It will be presented by Joanne Logan, who is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee and a renowned expert on the subject, a press release said. Logan is an associate professor in the UT Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science. She has studied applied and agricultural climatology for 30 years, and she directs the undergraduate program in environmental and soil siences, the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Front Page News, Weather Tagged With: climate change, ecosystems, global warming, Joanne Logan, phenology, University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee Arboretum Society, UT, UT Arboretum Society, UT Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, UT Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center, UT Institute of Agriculture

George joins elite group as ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair

Posted at 10:42 pm December 17, 2016
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Easo George becomes the 15th Governor’s Chair. (Photo courtesy Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

 

Easo George, one of the world’s foremost authorities on advanced alloy development and theory, has been named the 15th Governor’s Chair at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee.

George comes from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where he has been professor of materials design and director of the Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials since November 2014. Prior to that, he had a career of nearly three decades at ORNL, where he was a distinguished research staff member and head of the Alloy Behavior and Design Group. He was also a professor of materials science and engineering at UT since 2002, a press release said.

“I am honored to have been chosen for this position,” George said in the press release. “There is already tremendous synergy between ORNL and UT in advancing materials research, and I cannot wait to help build even more momentum.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Education, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: advanced alloys, Alloy Behavior and Design Group, amorphous materials, Center for Interface Dominated High Performance Materials, Easo George, Governor's Chair, Governor’s Chair for Advanced Alloy Theory and Development, high-entropy alloys, Indian Institute of Technology, Jeremy Busby, Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL, ORNL-UT Governor’s Chair, precious metals, Ruhr University, Tickle College of Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy, University of Tennessee, UT, Wayne Davis

Last Applewood Apartments tenant moves out Friday

Posted at 4:52 pm October 11, 2016
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The last tenant of the Applewood Apartments on Hillside Road and Hunter Circle moved out Friday, Oct. 7, 2016. (Photo by John Huotari/Oak Ridge Today)

 

Note: This story was updated at 8:55 a.m. Oct. 12.

The last tenant of the Applewood Apartments was moving out Friday when Oak Ridge Today stopped by for an update.

Tenants had been told in early August that the apartments would close September 30.

On Monday, property owner Joe Levitt said he decided in the last 90-120 days to shut down the 13 apartment buildings on Hillside Road and Hunter Circle and board them up. He said it was his understanding that the last tenant was moving out this past Friday.

Levitt said he is 85 and has had health problems, and he’s trying to clean up his estate. Most of his estate will probably go to the University of Tennessee and nonprofit organizations, Levitt said.

“I’ve outlived all the people I need to take care of,” he said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Business, Front Page News, Government, Oak Ridge, Oak Ridge, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Applewood Apartments, City of Oak Ridge, codes enforcement, Highland View, Hillside Road, Hunter Circle, Joe Levitt, Ken Krushenski, University of Tennessee, UT

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