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No. 6
in nation for US Department of Energy funding
(NSF HERD, 2022)
$324M
total research expenditures
(FY22)


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5
Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Illustration of a plant with an electric plug at the end.

6
Members of the National Academy of Engineering

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3
Members of the National Academy of Sciences

Computer illustration of the outlines of three people in Tennessee orange and Smokey gray.

9
Members in the American Academy of Nursing


3
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows
in 2023
37
total National Endowment for the Humanities Fellows; UT has been a top 10 producer of NEH Fellows since 2005


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99
Patents granted since 2018

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5
Sloan Research Fellows

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95
American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows


89
NSF CAREER Awards
138
Fulbright US Scholars


As of July 2023