The Office of Research and Engagement, in partnership with the Tickle College of Engineering (TCE), will host a Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshop on Tuesday, May 14 in the Toyota Auditorium of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy.

The Office of Research and Engagement is hosting a visit by Dr. Jeffrey Nichols, associate laboratory director for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computing and Computational Sciences.

The new Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge provides unprecedented opportunity to perform modeling and simulation and artificial intelligence at a scale that is an order of magnitude greater than prior supercomputer systems.

Dr. Nichols will discuss the technologies used in Summit, and how supercomputers have changed the way science is conducted in the national lab complex. He will give examples of how integrating supercomputers, artificial intelligence, experiments, and new theories help to solve the nation’s largest science problems.

The Research Development unit in the Office of Research & Engagement would like to invite you to a meeting for all AAAS fellows on our campus. The meeting will be held on April 10 at 10 am in the Student Union, Room 362. Light refreshments will be served.

The general purpose of the meeting is to discuss how our AAAS fellows might develop some institutional programs and initiatives as a cohort. We seek your thoughts and advice about new programs here as well as your knowledge about programs at other universities that we might adopt.

In particular, we would like to propose a new program in which we will ask AAAS fellows to serve in the limited role of application mentors for UT junior faculty who apply for highly prestigious external awards.  The list of junior faculty awards we propose to consider comes from the Center for Measuring University Performance:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has opened applications for their Distinguished Staff Fellowship program. The process is open to doctoral and post-doctoral students in science or engineering fields. Current ORNL postdoctoral researchers or staff members may not apply.

“The ORNL Distinguished Staff Fellowships are awarded to outstanding early-career scientists and engineers with demonstrated success within their academic, professional, and technical areas, who have high potential to be future science leaders.”