Faculty

With $5M Award, NSF Selects UT to Lead Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts

The University of Tennessee (UT) has received a $5 million grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to start tackling one of the world’s biggest scientific challenges. UT’s award is part of the 2024 Global Centers competition, a nearly $82 million international funding collaboration among agencies in the US, Canada, Finland, Japan, the Republic…
UTIA Researchers Win Grant for Automation Technology for Nursery Industry

University of Tennessee Extension and UT AgResearch scientists have been awarded part of a nearly $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study ways to use automation and robotics to address the labor shortage in the nursery crops industry. Growing plants in a nursery is highly dependent on manual labor, making this…
Maroulas Appointed Associate Vice Chancellor, Director of AI Tennessee

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has appointed Vasileios Maroulas associate vice chancellor and director of the AI Tennessee Initiative. AI Tennessee was established in 2022 to strengthen UT’s research in AI, expand the number of UT students developing AI skills and competencies, and position the state of Tennessee as a national and global leader in the…
Three Faculty Members Named Chancellor’s Professors

Chancellor Donde Plowman has named a new group of Chancellor’s Professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Derek Alderman, David Anderson and Bonnie Ownley. The distinction honors exceptional faculty members for outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to their fields. “These three faculty members, each from a different college, represent the best of our university with their commitment…
UT Veterinary Professor Named President of National Board

Brian Whitlock, the Charles and Julie Wharton Professor of Food Animal Field Services at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine, has been named president of the American College of Theriogenologists (ACT). He was named Theriogenologist of the Year in 2022. Theriogenology is veterinary reproductive medicine. Whitlock joined the veterinary college in 2008 and teaches and…
Cao, He Receive Collaborative Award Grants

Qing “Charles” Cao and Qiang He are part of a new collaborative grant program led by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine-Knoxville (UTHSC COM-K) to support research and scholarly activities addressing health issues across Tennessee and beyond. The program will fund six awards totaling more than $450,000 to support teams of clinicians, faculty, and…
UT Leads $25M Nuclear Technology Consortium

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the lead institution for a $25 million cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation to support research that underlies its nuclear security and nonproliferation missions. Read more at news.utk.edu
Veerle Keppens Named Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

Veerle Keppens, Chancellor’s Professor and head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the Tickle College of Engineering, has agreed to serve as the vice provost for faculty affairs. A native of Belgium, Keppens earned both bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, just east of Brussels. Since arriving at…