Shannon Spencer from the Office of Sponsored Programs was awarded the 2017 National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) Travel Award. The Southeast Region of NCURA issues an annual $1,000 Travel Award to support a member to attend the region’s annual conference. These awards are issued through a competitive application process and awardees are selected based on service and contribution to the organization and professional development/institutional financial need. This is the first travel award the university has received from NCURA.
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Recognitions, October 28
Please send faculty, staff, and student recognitions to Erin Chapin (erin.chapin@utk.edu).
- Joshua Emery, Lawrence A. Taylor Associate Professor of Planetary Science, has co-authored a study that detected potential water on Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in our solar system and the target of a proposed NASA mission. The study was published in the Astronomical Journal under the auspices of the US Geological survey and NASA. Continue reading
Recognitions, September 30
Please send faculty, staff, and student recognitions to Erin Chapin (erin.chapin@utk.edu).
- The Smart Communities Initiative was honored by the Southeast Tennessee Development District, a past and continuing partner, with their Flame Award, an overall agency award recognizing the SCI program and the university for commitment to engage the community, solve real-world problems, and “ignite the imagination of future leaders”.
Center for Transportation Research Announces 2015 Fellows
The Center for Transportation’s 2015 Fellows, from left to right: Mingzhou Jin – Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; John Bell – Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management; John Ma – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Charles Sims – Department of Economics, Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy; Subhadeep Chakraborty – Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering.
UT’s Center for Transportation Research (CTR) has announced a class of five faculty members as its 2015–16 fellows.
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