Maha Krishnamurthy named Interim UTRF President & Jeff Smith named Interim Vice President for Research

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA With the upcoming departure of Stacey Patterson, the University of Tennessee’s (UT) Vice President for Research, Outreach and Economic Development, UT President Randy Boyd has announced two interim appointments and the process to fill both positions on a permanent basis. Jeff Smith, retired Deputy Director for Operations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), will … Read More

PYA, affiliate company RTG named top firms in respective industries

By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA Earlier this month, PYA was named a “2022 Top 100 Accounting Firm” in the nation by INSIDE Public Accounting. This is the seventh year in a row the firm, which powers teknovation.biz, has earned this recognition. In the last three years, PYA has moved up seven spots in the ranking. It is one of only two … Read More

QUBIT ENGINEERING OPTIMIZES WIND FARM ENERGY PRODUCTION WITH AZURE QUANTUM

Qubit Engineering is using quantum inspired capabilities available on the Azure Quantum platform to optimize wind farm layouts and, in doing so, capture more available energy with the same physical wind farm assets. Wind farms have achieved tremendous efficiency gains over the last two decades through hardware innovation. Software innovation, in the form of turbine layout optimization, can now further … Read More

A lot of questions asked during second sessions of last Thursday’s “Women’s Capital Series”

A spirited group of women peppered two different panels with questions during the second session last Thursday of the “Women’s Capital Series” organized by Catherine Porth and the team at the Let Her Speak nonprofit that she leads. The questions started almost immediately after the morning session began and continued, albeit at a somewhat reduced rate, during the lunchtime session. The former … Read More