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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Please send faculty, staff, and student recognitions to Erin Chapin (erin.chapin@utk.edu).
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).
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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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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