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  • 2020-2021 Wings Up 100: College of Agriculture and Human Ecology

    2020-2021 Wings Up 100: College of Agriculture and Human Ecology

    The following researchers in the College of Agriculture and Human Ecology have been inducted into the 2020-2021 Wings Up 100.

    Melinda Anderson, director, School of Human Ecology
    Dennis Duncan, professor of agricultural education, School of Agriculture

    The 2020-2021 Wings Up 100 roster is an elite group of 38 Tech researchers who brought in at least $100,000 in external funding for their research and activities during 2020-2021.

    Congratulations to these researchers who helped Tech set a new high in external funding.

  • Fall 2021 Research 101 Workshop Series

    Fall 2021 Research 101 Workshop Series

    Register now to participate in the first session of the Research 101 Workshop Series! During this session participants will walk through the life cycle of a grant, focusing on a few key topic areas including the definition of external funding, the role of the Office of Research and the role of the Office of Grant Accounting, internal processes, and required paperwork, an overview of the roles and responsibilities in a proposal, and more!

    Register now to participate on September 23rd!

  • Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Mathew Pearson, University of Liverpool

    Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Mathew Pearson, University of Liverpool

    Dr. Mathew Pearson, a nuclear physicist hailing from the University of Liverpool, is visiting campus this week and will give our first Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar this semester. Dr. Pearson studies the properties of exotic nuclei using a laser to precisely measure atomic transitions that are affected by the configuration of the nucleus. His talk, Laser Spectroscopy in Nuclear Physics, will be this Friday, September 17th at 4pm in Volpe Library 248. It will be geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend! Visit the seminar webpage for more information and the current schedule for upcoming talks.

  • Office of Research Congratulates External Funding Winners from August

    Externally sponsored award winners from August:

    • Alice Camuti, Alfred Kalyanapu (Co-PI), John Brackins (Co-PI): NSF (Graduate Research Fellowship Program)
    • Julie Baker, Lisa Zagumny (Co-PI), Jeremy Wendt (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Education via TN Dept. of Education
    • Steve Click and Shirin Noei (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
    • Brad Cohen: USFWS via TWRA
    • Ismail Fidan: NSF via Sommerset Community College
    • Terry Guo and Allen MacKenzie (Co-PI): NSF
    • Carla Hurt: NSF
    • Kevin Liska: S. Small Business Administration Center via TN Small Business Development Centers via MTSU
    • Jennifer Meadows: Battelle Memorial Institute
    • Shirin Noei: S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
    • Amanda Rosenberger: National Park Service
    • Ambareen Siraj, Eric Brown (Co-PI), Akond Rahman (Co-PI), Denis Ulybyshev (Co-PI), Maanak Gupta (Co-PI): NSF
    • Tom Timmerman: CARES Act Funding via TN Small Business Development CenterVisit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

  • Congratulations to July externally funded award winners

      • Aikens: S. Dept. Ag. (2); U.S. Dep. Commerce (2); U.S. Small Bus. Admin. Center/TN SBDC (MTSU)
      • Cohen, Kissell: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA
      • Cohen, Combs: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA
      • Gentry: TN Arts Comm.
      • Ghafoor: NSF via UT Chatt.
      • Gotcher: TBR
      • Howard: Putnam Co. School System; Private (2); TN Dept. Ed. (2); TN Dept. Intell. & Develop. Dis. (2)
      • Howard, Callender: TN Dep. Ed. (2)
      • Hurley, Hellman: TN Dep. Health
      • Ismail: Qatar Nat. Res. Fund/TX A&M Univ.
      • Kim: NSF (2); Priv. (3)
      • Liska: TN Dept. Health
      • Potter, Anthony, Moore: TBR
      • Roberts: S. Dept. Energy
      • Rogers, Ghafoor:
      • Shannigrahi: NSF/Color. St. Univ.
      • VandenBerge: TBR
        • Wheeler, Hurt: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA

      Zhang: ORNL

    Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php for more information.

  • Congratulations to sponsored award winners from June

    Externally sponsored award winners from June:

        • Mohammad Albakri: NSF via Virginia Tech
        • Mary Fornehed: National Institutes of Health via University of TN
        • Barbara Jared, Jason Hurley (Co-PI), and Kimberly Hanna (Co-PI): Appalachian Regional Commission
        • DuckBong Kim: Managing Institute and Joint Research Institute-Hanyang
        • Amanda Powell and Kevin Liska (Co-PI): TN Dept. of Health
          Ambareen Siraj and Eric Brown (Co-PI): NSF via Whatcom Community College

    Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

  • Congratulations to externally funded award winners from May

    Externally sponsored award winners from May:

      • Sakir Ayik: S. Department of Energy
      • Julie Baker: S. Department of Education via Tennessee Department of Education
      • Maanak Gupta and Sheikh Ghafoor (Co-PI): National Science Foundation
      • Mary Kidd, Kaitlyn Kidwell (Co-PI), Emma Mitchell (Co-PI), and Halle Ford (Co-PI): Private Funder
      • Mustafa Rajabali: S. Department of Energy
      • Rory Roberts: S. Department of Energy via HyperTech
      • Daniel VandenBerge: Private Funder
      • Fred Vondra and Ismail Fidan (Co-PI): Private Funder

     

      Liqun Zhang: National Science Foundation via LiBama

    Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

  • Congratulations to April Externally Funded Award Winners

    Externally sponsored award winners from April:

      • Jesse Carrick: S. Department of Energy
      • Steven Click and Shirin Noei (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
      • Dennis Duncan and Michael Nattrass (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Agriculture via Middle TN State University
      • Gail Gentry: Private Funder
      • Kevin Liska: TN Dept. of Safety and Homeland Security
      • Satish Mahajan: UCDD via Appalachian Regional Commission
      • Jennifer Meadows: Battelle Memorial Institute
      • Joseph Ojo: Office of Naval Research
      • Mustafa Rajabali: NSF via University of Tennessee Knoxville

      • Amanda Rosenberger: two grants, one with the U.S. Geological Survey and TN Wildlife Resources Agency

    Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

  • Meet and Greet to follow alum David Nicholas’s presentation Thurs, Apr. 29

    A meet-and-greet session for faculty will follow Tech alum David Nicholas’s presentation this Thursday, April 29.  The presentation will be at 11 a.m. in Room 113 of the Stonecipher Lecture Hall (SLH), and the meet-and-greet will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Laboratory Science Commons Building, Room 3331.    The Office of Research and Economic Development and the Chemical Engineering Department are hosting the event.  Nicholas, CEO of Earth Science Laboratories in Rogers, Arkansas, will be discussing ESL’s research and development ventures.  ESL has found that a unique chemical composition accounted for many distinctive features of its products and is now the basis of the company’s rapidly growing technology platform.  ESL is exploring opportunities for collaborative research as the company sees many opportunities for the chemistry that are outside its founding expertise in water treatment.  For more information, contact Sandy Storie (sstorie@tntech.edu or 931-372-6756).

  • 2021 Research and Creative Inquiry Day winners available

    The 2021 Research and Creative Inquiry event winners are available on the event website (https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day).  This year’s event included 222 abstracts with 205 posters/papers submitted, representing more than 300 current students from 22 schools and departments. We appreciate the patience of the students, research advisors, and judges as we used a digital format again this year.

    Also on the event website are the Proceedings with all submitted abstracts, recording of the award ceremony, and two creative media inquiry video projects developed in the Social Problems (SOC 1650) class taught by Ada Haynes, sociology professor.

    Many of the posters from the event are available for viewing by the campus community for the remainder of the spring semester.

    The Proceedings of Student Research and Creative Inquiry Day, an online journal for those who agreed to their abstract and poster/paper being published, will be compiled in the coming weeks.  When it is ready, the link to the journal will be available on the event website.