Ryan Spencer, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of ThermaMatrix, has known he wanted to engineer since high school. His old truck had broken down, and instead of taking it to the auto repair shop and spending thousands of dollars he did not have as a teenager, he decided to buy the parts and fix the (read more)
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Employee Spotlight: CeCe Ging and Emma Vetland
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation recently welcomed two new team members. CeCe Ging joins as the Staff Attorney, while Emma Vetland joins as an Assistant Technology Manager. Originally from Lebanon, Tennessee, Ging received her bachelor’s in chemistry and biochemistry from Washington University in St. Louis and her law degree from the University of Tennessee (read more)
Spotlight on: Entrepreneurship
Far too many research projects with commercial potential stall on the threshold of viability because graduate student innovators graduate and leave the University. The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program seeks to retain talented individuals in the region and invigorate the innovation ecosystem through work on projects that lead to deep tech startups. (read more)