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Cluster Initiatives

Through these seven clusters, UT supports transdisciplinary collaboration to help solve grand challenges that affect people everywhere.

Foundational Artificial Intelligence

Pursuing a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape AI development and build UT’s leadership as we close the gap to human intelligence.

Foundational AI cluster
Two graduate students place a cap with several wires on a young person's head.

Science-Informed Artificial Intelligence

Developing foundational multiscale, multimodal models for AI that respect the physical laws and chemical properties governing underlying processes.

Science-informed AI Cluster
Yeole Pritesh, works with a Wabash, a 150-ton capacity large press, that makes panels from sheet molding compound in the Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF) lab on December 08, 2022.

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry

Developing models and tools based on experimental data to promote deeper and broader understanding of strategic climate-smart practices.

Climate-smart agriculture and forestry cluster
Two men talk while standing in front of agrovoltaic system.

Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Quantitative-Based Solutions for Food Security Under a Changing Climate

Applying cutting-edge technologies to develop climate-resilient crops and enable long-term food security at the household, national, and global scales.

Bioinformatics, Genomics, and Quantitative-Based Solutions for Food Security Under a Changing Climate cluster
Alhagie K. Cham, Post Doc, prepares a sample for electrophoresis in the Pathogen and Pest Lab inside the Agriculture and Natural Resources Building

Food and Nutrition Security

Understanding food availability, accessibility, and utilization to improve food and nutrition security and ultimately support improved health outcomes.

food and nutrition security cluster
Hao Gan and a graduate student talk in front of a FarmBot.

Precision Health and Environment

Leveraging machine learning and a wealth of data to understand links between environmental conditions and six significant types of human health problems.

Precision Health and Environment cluster
College of Nursing student working with a dummy, preparing it for an injection

Future Mobility

Inventing and testing new mobility technologies, materials, processes, and policies that will create social, environmental, and economic benefits.

Future Mobility cluster
Professor Lee Han and two students in front of a bank of monitors, explaining the application of his research involving crowdsourced traffic and road condition data

Cluster Hiring Initiatives

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has committed $50 million over five years to recruit top-tier faculty members across multiple disciplines.

Our faculty community is a critical driver of progress toward realizing UT’s ambitious Strategic Vision. The cluster hiring process enables faculty-led excellence in transdisciplinary research and teaching through a significant commitment of institutional resources.

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