Herbert College of Agriculture
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Four Researchers Honored by AAAS as Lifetime Fellows
Four faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been elected 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. AAAS Fellows are elected to a lifetime appointment annually by their peers on the AAAS Council in recognition of their extraordinary achievements. Elected faculty are Professor Albrecht von Arnim of the Department of…
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David White Named Dean of UT’s Herbert College of Agriculture
Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that David White will lead the Herbert College of Agriculture in a permanent capacity as dean. He has served in the role of interim dean since the retirement of Caula Beyl in December 2022. Dave holds tenure as a professor of food science and took on the role of…
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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…
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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…
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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…