Top leaders of The Texas A&M University System and the University of Tennessee System announced a strategic alliance Thursday for purposes of joining a team to compete for the management-and-operations contract of the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and the Pantex Plant in Texas.
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Attend a regional webinar on research security, led by the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Kelvin Droegemeier, and supported by the National Science Foundation. The University of Tennessee will be co-hosting the event with Vanderbilt University, and several other institutions from Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana and Arkansas have been invited to attend. The title of the presentation is “Enhancing the Security and Integrity of America’s Research Enterprise” and will be presented on Sept. 25, from 1 p.m.-2:15 p.m. EDT/12 p.m. –1:15 p.m. CDT.
For webinar details, including registration information, please visit calendar.utk.edu.
Engagement and Outreach Week is a celebration of partnerships, ideas, and innovative approaches to community engagement and outreach.The feature event is the third annual Engagement and Outreach Conference on October 7 from 8:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. This year’s theme is Demonstrating Resilience Through Multiple Pandemics. Registration for this event is free and open to students, faculty, staff, and community stakeholders. Learn more about the Engagement and Outreach Conference, as well as other Engagement and Outreach Week events at communityengagement.utk.edu.
The middle of September brings; the inaugural cohort of Diversity and Engagement Fellows; the Head of the Department of Nuclear Engineering receives the Robert L. Long Training Excellence Award; an assistant professor in MABE receives NIH-based funding for prosthetics research; a MABE professor is elected to the inaugural class of the ASPE College of Fellows; a TCE graduate student is honored by the Society of Women Engineers. Continue reading
The Student/Faculty Research Awards are used to advance the scholarship of graduate students and faculty working in partnership. Every award requires a Student PI and a Faculty PI. The benefit to both should be evident in the proposal. Graduate students in those disciplines (e.g., arts, humanities, and social sciences), which traditionally do not conduct collaborative work, and/or do not expect to publish jointly with a faculty member are also eligible to apply. Such applications must show that the student’s proposal is approved by a faculty member and under the faculty member’s direct supervision. This mechanism is intended to help support student research/scholarship/creative activity; give students experience writing grants; and foster the mentoring relationship between faculty and graduate students.
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