Established in 1965, the University of Tennessee’s School of Architecture was one of the first new architecture programs founded in the U.S. following the Great Depression. As a land-grant institution, the School of Architecture within the College of Architecture at UTK continues to build on the tradition of service in the public interest consistent with [...]
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. [...]
Who We Are Currently, our faculty are actively leading research into both traditional chemical and energy industries as well as new areas of application and innovation, such as biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, advanced materials, and sustainable energy. The vision of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department is to be a center of inspired learning that nurtures innovation, [...]
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 [...]
The landscape architecture graduate program — offered jointly by the College of Architecture + Design and the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources — welcomed its first class in fall 2008. The program is administratively housed in the College of Architecture + Design but is cross-disciplinary in its scope of studies and in the [...]
The UT Organic and Sustainable Crop Production Program (OSCPP) includes faculty from six departments and centers in the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. The OSCPP promotes interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach to expand organic and sustainable crop production in Tennessee and the Southeast. The OSCPP has launched a statewide organic agriculture initiative. The intent of [...]
The Science Alliance, a Tennessee Center of Excellence established in 1984, has a mission to expand cooperative ventures in research with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and in that process enhance science and engineering research programs at The University of Tennessee. Center research emphasizes strategic areas of importance to both organizations. Materials science, neutron science, [...]
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 [...]
The Sustainable Supply Chain Group (SSC) represents the collaborative efforts of faculty in the Department of Marketing and Logistics in the College of Business Administration that focus their research efforts on sustainability within the context of global supply chain management. As researchers, our goal is to advance the development of academic research, and ultimately business [...]
