Supporting and Expanding the Advanced Composites Manufacturing Ecosystem The University of Tennessee’s Uday Vaidya is a researcher, mentor, and director who serves as the Governor’s Chair in Advanced Composites Manufacturing, the Director of the Fibers and Composites Manufacturing Facility (FCMF), and the Chief Technology Officer at the Institute for Advanced Composites and Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI). (read more)
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A Decade in Review: UTRF from 2010 to 2020
The innovation landscape is constantly evolving with new products, services, and companies entering the market each year. Looking back over the past decade, we’re presented with a long list of accomplishments in commercialization because the faculty, staff, and students at the University of Tennessee continue to develop new intellectual property that shapes the future of (read more)
UTRF Inventor Spotlight: Dr. Tarek Hewezi
Using epigenetic information to understand plant-nematode interactions Nationwide, soybean farmers are facing a serious adversary: a microscopic, parasitic worm that causes over a billion dollars in yield losses every year. As soybeans represent one of the largest agricultural commodities in the U.S., this parasite not only endangers soybean farms but poses a threat to agricultural (read more)