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Terry Hazen, the UT–Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair for Environmental Biotechnology, teamed up with other scientists to write a report on oil spill recovery safety published this month by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

Learn more about Hazen's findings

Responsible Conduct of Research Workshop

ORE and the Tickle College of Engineering have partnered to host a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) awareness workshop on May 14, 2019, in the Toyota Auditorium at the Howard H. Baker Jr Center for Public Policy. Several funding agencies require mandatory training in RCR. This workshop will help meet these mandatory requirements. Lunch will be provided.

ORE plans to hire three Faculty Fellows for a one year appointment (possibly multi-year) beginning in the summer of 2019. We are seeking one Faculty Fellow from engineering, one from physical sciences, and one from social sciences. The application deadline is April 30, 2019.

Register to attend a presentation by Jeffrey Nichols, associate laboratory director for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computing and Computational Sciences. On April 18, Nichols will discuss how supercomputers have changed the way science is conducted in the national lab complex.

Smiling really can make people feel happier, according to a new paper published in Psychological Bulletin. Coauthored by researchers at UT and Texas A&M, the paper looked at nearly 50 years of data testing whether facial expressions can lead people to feel the emotions related to those expressions.

Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities

View details about these and more professional development opportunities on the ORE website.

Computing and Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
4/18, 11:00-12:00 p.m.
Overview of Cost Share and Program Income
4/25, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
ENGINEERING: Winning Strategies for the DoD
4/25, 2:15-3:15 p.m.
ENGINEERING: Department of Defense Young Investigator Programs
4/29, 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Workshops for New Campus Chemical Inventory System

The Department of Environmental Health and Safety is implementing a new online system to help the campus community better track laboratory chemicals and other hazardous chemicals, such as cleaning agents, that are used at UT. BioRAFT will provide a place to maintain your chemical inventory as well as manage other health and safety lab functions such as hazard assessments, lab safety survey findings, and training requirements.

The workshops will be held April 16–25 in Student Union Room 360.

High Performance Computing Survey

A taskforce of campus colleagues charged by ORE has created a survey to better understand the needs of faculty, staff and students with respect to campus-supported High Performance Computing (HPC) for research. The outcomes of the survey, in combination with a series of visits to other universities, will be used in the assessment and improvement of HPC for research at UT.

Take the HPC survey.

Recognitions

Jack Dongarra named Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society—Mike Lidwin received 2019 Aydelott Travel Award—Bill Bass to have Strong Hall Atrium named after him—Caroline Billings earns top place in 3MT Competition

Read all recent Recognitions

ISSE Seed Grant Opportunity

The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE) makes annual funding available for multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator research and support. This year, ISSE will award approximately four seed grants to support research projects related to sustainability, especially projects related to water, energy, and food sustainability that have potential for external funding opportunities.

Applications are due by May 15, 2019.

Contact Us

Office of Research and Engagement
1534 White Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-1529
Phone: 865-974-3466
Email: research@utk.edu
Website: research.utk.edu

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