Dr. Joseph DiPietro
President
The University of Tennessee
As Tennessee’s land-grant institution, the University of Tennessee fulfills a mission to educate, discover and connect across our state and beyond. The University has a long history of partnering with public and private industry to conduct research that expands scientific knowledge, grows economic development, adds to quality of life and benefits the people of Tennessee.
Our University has helped Tennessee become a world leader in renewable energy, and The University of Tennessee Research Park at Cherokee Farm is a catalyst to continue to move the University, the state and nation forward in many areas of research including materials science, high-speed computing, agriculture and biotechnology
The UT Research Park, a partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, provides private industry with access to excellent faculty and researchers and world-class resources and a location with a dynamic workforce.
I look forward to welcoming you to Tennessee and Knoxville.