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Senior Khanh Ha was selected for the Advanced Undergraduate Research Activity (AURA) program, which promotes research for undergraduate students at UT.


The Royal Society of Chemistry awarded UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair Art Ragauskas its 2022 Environment Prize for his role in the development and refinement of plant-based fuels.


CBE students have been recognized with numerous awards distributed across the university this spring.


Tasimba Jonga earned the Torchbearer award, the university’s highest student honor, for his senior year at UT.


Senior Tasimba Jonga will move forward into graduate studies as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University.


CBE recognized several students, faculty, and staff with its annual department awards.


Oak Ridge National Laboratory posted an article that included research highlights from Governor’s Chair of Advanced and Nanostructured Materials Rigoberto Advincula on creating a circular economy for plastics.


Ferguson Faculty Fellow Cong Trinh was awarded $1.1 million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science for research aimed at producing the next generation of biofuels.


Alumnus David McKinney (BS ’84), current president of ISOFlex Packaging and founder of Coldpack, was inducted into the department’s Hall of Fame.


After alumnus Erick Ribeiro (PhD ’20) built an innovative energy storage device printed on a 3D printer, NASA began scaling them to use on a Mars rover.