Startup company Asters has been accepted into the fourth cohort of the Transform accelerator for data science and AI startups by the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute.  

Associate Professor Anming Hu has been invited to join the Asian American Scholar Forum (AASF) as a fellow. 

Associate Professor Andrew Dickerson’s research paper on maple samaras has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 

Michele Wise Wright was a trailblazer for minority students at the University of Tennessee Space Institute. The dynamic leader launched the inaugural National Society of Black Engineers chapter at UTSI among other accomplishments.

A unique collaboration between the Tickle College of Engineering and the University of Tennessee School of Art is helping address the workforce shortage in the U.S casting and forging industry through hosting METAL bootcamps.

Associate Professor Phillip Kreth and a team of student interns put a football and a baseball in a Mach 4 wind tunnel to help the general public conceptualize hypersonic speeds.

InnoCrate won the American Composites Manufacturing Association’s Award for Composites Excellence at the 2024 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo.

K. Scott Malone (BS/BME, ’85) has used his engineering background from the University of Tennessee to become a successful orthopedic doctor. Malone is combining his skills by launching a new big data company for athletic injuries.

Zhenbo Wang had an article published in The Conversation that looks ahead to what promises to be a groundbreaking year for space exploration. 

EndoTheia, Inc., co-founded by MABE Associate Professor Caleb Rucker has announced the successful completion of the first-in-human clinical trial for the FlexStone™ Basket, the first-ever independently steerable kidney stone basket.