Category Archives: Research
Computational Solutions
Joint Associate Professor Belinda Akpa is combining her love of mathematics and chemical engineering to improve medicines and medical treatments.
Going Big and Energetic at a Small Scale Earns Mukherjee DURIP
Research Assistant Professor Dibyendu Mukherjee has developed a new way of producing energetic nanomaterials and received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program award.
Ragauskas Adapts Biomass Research to Keep Plastics from Going to Waste
UT–ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining Art Ragauskas and team are investigating new methods for reclaiming and reusing plastic waste.
Understanding Change
Associate Professor Joshua Sangoro and his team have made some of the first observations of a new, but previously theorized, form of matter that exists between liquid and solid.
Dooley Aims to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance
Doctoral candidate David Dooley’s research is aimed at preventing antimicrobial resistance using CRISPR/Cas technology.
Keeping an “Ion” Sangoro’s Research
Associate Professor Joshua Sangoro and doctoral student Matthew Harris made a discovery that may improve the understanding of the nature of liquid–liquid transitions.
Important Interactions
Associate Professor Steven Abel is teaching students to use mathematical and computational tools to study cell biology in his new first-year seminar, Exploring COVID-19.
Trinh’s Research Highlighted by Department of Energy
Research by Ferguson Faculty Fellow Cong Trinh was highlighted on the DOE Office of Science’s website.
Undergraduates Show Off Research at Second Annual Poster Presentation
Several undergraduate students presented their research at the second annual CBE Undergraduate Research Poster Presentation on March 12.
Ragauskas Helps Lead Biofuel-Related Breakthrough, Gains Honors
Arthur Ragauskas, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Biorefining, and his team lead a breakthrough study in biofuels that has been celebrated by his peers.