Congratulations to Amy Kurr for her recent scholarship award! Amy is a PhD student in the Department of Energy Science and Engineering, working in Professor David Harper’s lab. The Specialty…
PhD student Amy Kurr wins SEMA scholarship
MS&E student/Undergraduate research assistant for CRC, Jakob Scroggins, wins scholarship
Center for Renewable Carbon Partners on NSF Engines Grant
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, along with several regional collaborators, including UTIA’s Center for Renewable Carbon, was awarded $1 million from the US National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF…
Student team wins First Place in Design category – EUReCA competition
Students Melanie Moczadlo, Christopher Webb, Alexander Bowman (not pictured), Conner Cornachione, & Alicia Zahnen (not pictured) won First Place for their Engineering Design project, “Replacing Current Plastic Car Parts with…
Congratulations to CRC student Issac Sutton, winner of 2023 Undergrad. research fellowship, under supervision of Prof. Li
Issac Sutton is a sophomore Chemical Engineering student at UTK. He has always been passionate about finding sustainable solutions to pressing environmental challenges, and he joined Dr. Li’s group in…
CRC Prof Ragauskas gives invited talks as part of RSC Environment Prize
This past April, 2023, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining, Professor Art Ragauskas gave a series of honorary lectures as part of his 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize. His…
CRC PhD student, Kailong Zhang, wins the 2023–2024 Oscar Roy Ashley Graduate Fellowship under direction of Prof Li
Kailong Zhang, a second-year PhD student in the School of Natural Resources, is the proud recipient of the 2023-2024 Oscar Roy Ashley Graduate Fellowship. Zhang’s innovative research is focused on…
Check out the beautiful Science as Art photos by CRC/Materials Science graduate students, Michael Broud and Jakob Scroggins
Lu Yu Receives 2022 IAWS Second Place PhD Award for her Research on Lignin
Dr. Lu Yu recently graduated from the UTK Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) Department. She was co-advised by Prof. David Harper at the Center for Renewable Carbon (CRC) and Prof.…
UT ranked top global university for polymer science – U.S. News and World Report’s Best Global Universities
Researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in fields including chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, biosystems engineering, and forestry are investigating polymers through a variety of fundamental scientific problems with real-world…