TTU Physics major Cricket Bergner will give the Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar this Friday. Cricket spent the summer working with scientists at ORNL and General Atomics who focus on nuclear fusion for energy production. In her talk Sheath-Driven Impurity Modeling for Helicon Wave Operation in DIII-D Using the STRIPE Suite, Cricket will describe her summer experience, what she learned about controlled nuclear fusion, and the research she conducted. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210, with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!
Category: Research
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2025 Research Series: Proposal Production & Best Practices for Grant Management
Join us Friday, October 24th from 9 AM–12 PM in LIB112 or via Teams for a workshop focused on strategies for responding to RFPs and basic project budgeting. Learn practical tools to strengthen your submissions and manage budgets effectively. Open to graduate students, faculty, and anyone involved in proposal development. Lunch provided for in person attendees. Register below and contact cafe@tntech.edu with questions.
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Journal for Societal Imapct
The College of Business Journal for Societal Impact is officially open for student research submissions! https://www.tntech.edu/business/journal-societal-impact.php
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Research Series Mini Session: Streamlyne
Join ORED and CAFÉ on Thursday, October 23rd at 11 AM via Teams to learn to use good faith estimates to create a simple budget in Streamlyne. This discussion will cover basic grant budget items, from indirect costs to cost sharing to subawards. Learn to build a budget during the proposal process that makes grant management easy when the project is awarded! Register below and contact cafe@tntech.edu with questions.
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Chattrakun Kanokporn, TTU
The Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar returns to its usual Friday this week with a seminar given by Dr. Chattrakun Kanokporn (“Tu”), a biological physicist who has recently joined the faculty at Tennessee Tech from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Tu’s talk, Improved site-specific labeling for smFRET measurements using non-natural incorporation, will describe a technique for studying biomolecular dynamics with very high spatial precision. The seminar will be at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210, with snacks served starting at 3:30pm. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!
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Wings Up 100
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the “Wings Up 100”. The Tennessee Tech Wings 100 is an annual recognition program for faculty who have secured a minimum of $100,000 in external research funding. This initiative celebrates the dedication to research and innovation, advancement of the university’s reputation, and contributions to knowledge in a myriad of disciplines. As a special mention, 13 Tennessee Tech researchers surpassed the $1,000,000 mark! List of Winners
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Did You Know: TTAC Can Help Commercialize Your Research!
The Tennessee Technology Advancement Consortium, in partnership with the office of research at Tennessee Tech, has resources available to help faculty innovators take your research from the lab to market! Reach out to Eli Hudson (ebhudson42@tntech.edu) for help with filing an invention disclosure for your research and to see what next steps are for starting the process of commercialization. More info to come on events and resources to help take your research further!
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Patent Granted for Cyber Risk Assessment System
Tennessee Tech researchers Bradley Northern, Dr. Denis Ulybyshev, Trey Burks, Marlana Hatcher, and Dr. Michael Rogers have been granted U.S. Patent No. 12,418,557 B2 for “Systems and Methods for Cyber Risk Assessment for Computing Systems.” This innovation introduces automated risk scoring, sensitivity analysis, and proactive defensive actions, enhancing the resilience and security of modern computing systems.
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Research Strategies for Social Impact and Economic Development
Register to attend the next session in our research workshop series, Research Strategies for Social Impact and Economic Development, on Friday, September 26th from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM virtually or in person in LIB112. Explore how local and regional partnerships can drive research activity in Tennessee, benefiting both researchers and local communities. Gain insights into the history of economic development initiatives and their impact on the state’s innovation landscape. This session will also include a panel discussion from current grantees about their projects. Register here and contact cafe@tntech.edu with questions.
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Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar: Dr. Kenneth Long, MIT
The first Undergraduate STEM Research Seminar of the semester will be this Monday at 4pm in Bruner Hall 210 (with snacks served at 3:30pm). Our speaker is a TTU alumnus, now a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, who was closely involved in a recent highly-anticipated result from the CMS collaboration associated with the effort to find missing elements in the fundamental physics “periodic table”, which is called the Standard Model. In his talk Measuring the mass of the W boson: a portrait of a complex measurement at the Large Hadron Collider, Dr. Long will explain how this experiment was performed and provide context to understand why the result is so interesting scientifically. These seminars are geared for undergraduates from any STEM major, but graduate students and faculty are also encouraged to attend!