University of Tennessee Distinguished Professor Jimmy Mays’s polymer research has put him on the leading edge of a new clean-energy research initiative that seeks to bring hydrogen fuel-cell technology out of the laboratory and into the marketplace.
Four decades ago, as millions of little Americans watched The Jetsons cartoons on television, they imagined their coming-of-age vehicle would not take to the highway but instead fly through the clouds.
Research at the University of Tennessee may be sweet music to the ears of millions of hearing-aid users. Dissatisfaction and frustration with hearing aids lead many hearing impaired people to stop using, even discard, their expensive hearing devices.
Is Kennewick Man a Native American whose sacrosanct skeleton should be discreetly reburied? Or are his bones key evidence that should be preserved and studied for further insight about how North Americans lived more than 9,000 years ago?
Blood pools on the kitchen floor. Droplets spatter the cabinets. In a small room off the cottage’s entryway, crime-scene investigators study blood spatters on the wall and bloody handprints on the floor. In the bedrooms, they photograph more bloodstains, looking for clues about the crimes that left these gruesome settings.
Josh Wolcott came to UT to study art. He dreamed of being a sculptor and a teacher. He never dreamed he’d be creating synthetic human bodies to blow up. But the graduate student’s career took an unexpected turn in April 2005 when an interesting offer came into the art department from the National Forensic Academy, which trains crime-scene investigators.
