Facilities The Department of Animal Science faculty and laboratories are housed in three buildings on the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus including our main building (Brehm, currently under renovation with completion anticipated for summer 2011), McCord Hall, and the Johnson Animal Research and Teaching Unit (JARTU) located just across the Tennessee river on the East [...]
The University of Tennessee Center for Conservation and Stewardship’s (CCS) mission is broad in spirit, with several key areas of focus. Broadly based in the arts and the sciences, the CCS is as a research and study center that advances the preservation and ethical management of Tennessee’s and the Tennessee Valley’s natural and cultural resources. [...]
The Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB) is a multidisciplinary research center that integrates life sciences with engineering and the physical sciences for advanced environmental research, training, and technology development. CEB fosters a multidisciplinary approach for training the next generation of environmental scientists and solving environmental problems through biotechnology. Achievements / Distinctions In the past two [...]
Environmental engineers are the technical professionals who identify and design solutions for environmental problems. Environmental engineers provide safe drinking water, treat and properly dispose of wastes, maintain air quality, control water pollution, and remediate sites contaminated due to spills or improper disposal of hazardous substances. They monitor the quality of the air, water, and land. [...]
The Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment’s (ISSE) multidisciplinary research staff comprises economists, biologists, ecologists, hydrologists, political scientists, planners, educators, communicators, chemists, engineers, accountants, soil scientists, sociologists, geographers, information-systems specialists, and historians. A 2007 New York Times article cites ISSE as an example of the trend toward consolidating multidisciplinary environmental research within free-standing centers [...]
Purpose and Focus The purpose of The Institute for Environmental Modeling (TIEM) is to do basic research on significant environmental problems that impact the State of Tennessee and have national and international implications. The focus of the Institute is on experimental design, environmental model formulation together with mathematical and statistical analyses of the models, projection of [...]
The major goal of the UT-ORNL Joint Institute for Biological Sciences (JIBS) is to promote increased interactions and provide new research and training opportunities for UT faculty, students and ORNL staff. The JIBS mission is to provide world class infrastructure, scientific instrumentation and an intellectual environment to compete with leading research institutions in shaping the [...]
Research Interests Sustainable energy research, education, and innovation, technological development and implementation of new, alternative forms of sustainable energy. Current areas of research emphasis include: Bio-Fuels Advanced Materials Energy Conversion and Storage Sustainability Science In addition, there are common elements of Environment, Ethics, Economics, Law and Policy as well as Technology that will be cross [...]
