The UT Research Foundation is holding two upcoming entrepreneurial events to benefit the UT community.
If you are interested in learning how to fund or finance a startup, you should attend.
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Recognitions, January 6
Please send faculty, staff, and student recognitions to Erin Chapin (erin.chapin@utk.edu).
- Dayakar Penumadu, the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM) Chair of Excellence in the Tickle College of Engineering, is in the process of patenting a new adhesive, referred to as a “smart joint” system consisting of distributed optical fiber sensors useful to designers and manufacturers in advanced materials. The UT Research Foundation and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering submitted the patent application on his behalf for Luna Innovations Incorporated O Di SI product (Optical Distributed Sensing).
Recognitions, December 16
The Office of Research and Engagement is pleased to celebrate this week, not only the following recognitions from around campus, but an abundance of accomplishments within our own team.
As always, we ask that you please share your faculty, staff, and student accomplishments for inclusion in our Recognitions section to Erin Chapin (erin.chapin@utk.edu).
- UT was ranked among the top institutions in Tennessee for teacher preparation by the 2016 Teacher Preparation Report Card. UT exceeded state averages in eight of the nine metrics measuring institutions on the basis of meeting Tennessee’s goals for instructing and preparing effective teachers.
- UT has been named to the Kiplingers Personal Finance list of the Top 300 Best College Values for 2017, placing 49th on the list of public colleges and universities (a jump from 71st last year).
Fetal Heart Monitor App Helps Train Future Nurses
Susan Fancher, simulation director for the College of Nursing, demonstrates how the simulated electronic fetal monitoring app works. PHOTOS BY MELISSA DOS SANTOS
Sheila Taylor leaned in to see the baby’s heartbeat rhythm. She watched as the baby’s heartbeat line fell without a corresponding spike showing the mother’s uterus contracting down on it.
“That looks ugly,” she murmured.
This time, though, there was no baby in distress. No quick phone call to a doctor. No hurried Caesarean delivery. It was all just a University of Tennessee iPad simulation app to train labor and delivery nurses.
Taylor, a UT clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing, and Susan Fancher, the simulation director for the College of Nursing, worked to develop the app to create a more realistic experience to instruct future nurses in monitoring babies and their mothers during labor. Xueping Li, associate professor of industrial and systems engineering, and Tami Wyatt, professor in College of Nursing, also helped develop the app.
“We love to collaborate with others,” Fancher said. “We have problems and others can help us find solutions.”
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UTRF Launches New, Secure, Online Portal for Invention Disclosures
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has announced the release of its new Invention Disclosure Enterprise Application. (I.D.E.A.).
IDEA (idea.tennessee.edu) is the new, secure, online portal for invention disclosures at the University of Tennessee. It offers a faster, easier way to submit disclosures.
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