UTRF is celebrating Dr. Catherine Schuman on two incredible achievements—securing a $4M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to advance neuromorphic computing and co-authoring a landmark article in Nature on the future of this transformative technology. The TENNLab Neuromorphic Computing Research Group at the University of Tennessee is leading groundbreaking research in brain-inspired computing, (read more)
Awards
Innovator Spotlight: Dustin Crouch
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is proud to partner with Dustin Crouch, 2025 Chancellors Innovation Award finalist and Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee. Crouch’s work in prosthetics pushes the boundaries of biomedical engineering to improve quality of life for people who have experienced (read more)
Inventor Spotlight: Ramesh Narayanan
“I always tell my students that a doctor can change the life of one patient at a time, whereas if you are a drug discoverer, you can change the life of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously,” said Ramesh Narayanan. Narayanan is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Eric Muirhead Professor of (read more)