Mechanical engineering student Andrew Orekhov of Morristown, Tennessee, was one of four students awarded a 2016 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Orekhov is interested in robotics for surgery and rehabilitation. He will be researching control techniques for flexible robotic systems in minimally invasive surgery applications.
http://tntoday.utk.edu/2016/04/14/students-awarded-nsf-graduate-research-fellowships/