The UT Food Safety center is built on an existing food safety initiative of the Institute of Agriculture and other departments on campus. Steve Oliver and Ann Draughon, center co-directors, are microbiologists, but the staff will include specialists in biochemistry, reproductive biology, food service management, parasitology, infectious diseases and risk assessment. The Tennessee Advanced Materials Laboratory will call on experts in materials science and engineering, chemistry, chemical engineering and physics at UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. TAML will explore the creation of new materials through computer-intensive modeling, followed by experimental research on promising combinations of elements.
Technological progress is materials-driven.
We have a chance to create an advanced-materials center that is in the top five in the world. Research The Center for Information Technology Research will be built on UT's world leadership in scientific computing and high-performance network computing. Dr. Jack Dongarra, whose Scalable Intracampus Research Grid, is the national model for networking massive computer calculations, will head the center. The focus of the center will be on creating new types of information technology, empowering research through the new technology and studying the effects of its use. Our goal is to build a community of researchers who are working at the leading edge of that revolution but who are also integrated into the overall university.