KNOXVILLE — A virtual ribbon cutting will launch the Spark Innovation Center at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm at 3:30 p.m. today. The center, with six client companies, assists early stage technology companies gain their footings. The companies, under one- or two-year agreements with the center, have space in the Joint Institute of Advanced Materials laboratories and work with staff to … Read More
The collaboration involves research opportunities for doctoral students and space in the Innovation North building at the UT Research Park at Cherokee Farm.
David Mandrus, the Jerry and Kay Henry Endowed Professor in UT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been named in the Highly Cited Researchers list compiled by the Web of Science Group and released last week. This is the third consecutive year he has been named in the list. Mandrus leads the Emergent Crystalline Matter group, which is focused … Read More
UT will begin offering a graduate certificate in advanced manufacturing in January 2020.
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation, a leading global medical technology company based in New Jersey, announced yesterday that it has acquired Arkis Biosciences Inc.
Rickey McCallum joined the UT Research Park as vice president on July 1. McCallum draws on his prior experience with the UT Foundation to help the park fulfill its mission to serve as a gateway for collaboration between the university and the private sector.
“We are in the business of making curated collisions occur,” Rogers explains. Those clearly lead to success on both aspects of his vision for the park – serving as a gateway for collaborations between the private sector and UT and making sure that “this incredible piece of property meets its full potential as a community asset.”
Knoxville-based news outlet Compass Knox featured UT Research Park in a recent story about UT Knoxville professor Kandace Hollenbach and her summer anthropology mini-term students’ research findings.
Slowly but steadily working their ways centimeter by centimeter down through the dirt and clay, UT Knoxville students unearthed pottery sherds, burned bones and mussel shells along with rocks fractured by cooking fires.
