The University of Tennessee Research Foundation is proud to welcome Todd Ponzio as its new Vice President of the UTRF office located at the UT Health Science Center. Ponzio brings a wealth of experience to the role from his time advancing biomedical and healthcare technologies at the National Institutes of Health, Naval Medical Research Center (read more)
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UTSI, NearSpace Launch secure Space Force STTR Phase I grant
The project will study Black Box-MCAT, an integration of NSL’s Black Box EyeStar with UTRFs patent pending µSTAMPS Thruster technology The United States Space Force recently awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant to the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) and NearSpace Launch (NSL) during its first-ever round of funding. This (read more)
UTRF startup reimagining glass recycling
Only one-third of all glass in the United States is recycled annually, and the rest goes to landfills. One reason for this disparity is that glass recycling isn’t economically friendly for many municipalities around the country. Cities that don’t have glass recycling facilities, such as Knoxville, must ship glass off to larger cities to process, (read more)