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Category: Research
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Vincente Guiseppe, ORNL
The first Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar of the semester will be this Friday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210. (Snacks will be served starting at 3:30pm.) The speaker will be Dr. Vincente Guiseppe from Oak Ridge National Lab. In his talk A LEGENDary Program: Searching for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in Ge-76, Dr. Guiseppe will describe the technological innovations required in the search for a process that, if observed, would change our understanding of the universe. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!
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Apply NOW for up to $20,000 in Grant Funding
The Rural Reimagined Faculty Grant Program offers TN Tech faculty members the opportunity to secure up to $20,000 in research funding for addressing rural challenges. All academic disciplines are encouraged to submit a proposal. The application window is currently open now through Friday, September 20, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. CST. For comprehensive information and proposal submission, please visit the Rural Reimagined Faculty Grant Program webpage for full details.
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Tennessee Tech Physics Majors Participate in PIRE-GEMADARC Summer School
Tennessee Tech physics majors Emma Krebs and Michael Potts participated in the final NSF PIRE-GEMADARC summer school this summer in Rapid City, South Dakota. The summer school instructs students in the use of high-purity germanium detectors in physics experiments to learn about our universe. Since 2018, this program has hosted 10 Tennessee Tech students in locations such as China, Germany, Ontario, and Taiwan, as well as multiple US locations. For more info, contact mkidd@tntech.edu.
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Five Psychology Students Present their Original Research in San Francisco
Five Tennessee Tech psychology students traveled with Dr. Stephanie Kazanas, Dr. Nicole Henniger, and Doug Hensley to the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention held in San Francisco from May 23-26, 2024.
The students presented the results of their research studies on topics such as multitasking and memory performance, the effects cluttered environments on attention, motivational responses to social media fitness influencers, the experience of intimate partner violence and depression in college students, and athletes’ attitudes towards seeking mental health treatment. For questions, contact nhenniger@tntech.edu.
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Computer science department’s Gupta wins Kinslow Engineering Research Award
Asst. Prof. of Computer Science Maanak Gupta won the College of Engineering’s Kinslow Engineering Research Award for his paper “From ChatGPT to ThreatGPT: Impact of Generative AI in Cybersecurity and Privacy.” It has been cited 200 times and downloaded over 50,000 times since published in IEEE Access Aug. 1, 2023.
“The award is a testament of the impactful research we are doing in our ABCyS lab at the intersection of generative AI and cybersecurity and recognition to my students who work relentlessly on cutting-edge research,” Gupta said. Read more
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Tech computer science students forge interdisciplinary bonds at SHIELD workshop
Collaboration is key. That’s what eight Tennessee Tech computer science students learned, along with Texas A&M University electrical and computer engineering students, at the Strategic Holistic Intrusion Defense in Power Systems “SHIELD” workshop at TAMU’s Center for Infrastructure Renewal.
Tech’s Muhammad Ismail, PI of the National Science Foundation Energy Power Control Networks grant that funded the workshop, said students learned how their areas of expertise converge to ensure security and efficiency of critical infrastructure.
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Come to the faculty innovator showcase on May 9th!
TTAC and ORED are hosting a faculty innovation showcase Thursday, May 9th in the Multipurpose room of the UC where faculty will present their research to the community and industry leaders. Come from 10am-12pm to see the showcase and support your favorite professor!
Register at the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tn-tech-faculty-innovator-showcase-tickets-884242281467?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Come to the faculty innovator showcase on May 9th!
TTAC and ORED are hosting a faculty innovation showcase Thursday, May 9th in the Multipurpose room of the UC where faculty will present their research to the community and industry leaders. Come from 10am-12pm to see the showcase and support your favorite professor! Register at the link below:
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Master’s Student, Mark Rine wins 3rd Place at TNGIC 2024 annual Conference
TNGIC 2024 (The Tennessee Geographic Information Council) was a great success, with an amazing turnout of TN Tech current students and recent alumni. Biology Master’s student, Mark Rine won the TennesseeView Remote Sensing Student Paper Competition with his presentation on “Spatiotemporal Fish Assemblage Patterns Associated with Fluctuating Flow in a Cumberland River Watershed in Tennessee”. Dr. Kit Wheeler is Mark’s advisor, and he completed this project as part of his project for Dr. Samantha Allen’s Fundamental of Environmental Spatial Analysis course. Congratulations, Mark, on your hard work!