Professor Ivan Maldonado served as the general chair for the 2025 Advances in Nuclear Fuel Management (ANFM) Conference.

Sarah Donaher has been named to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement PAC 5 group, helping position UT as a hub in the field.

TVA has invested $3 million in the University of Tennessee to advance academic excellence, workforce development and faculty recruitment.

UT is the recipient of a $251,650 nuclear energy infrastructure award from U.S. Department of Energy that will be used to establish an in-situ scanning electron microscopy platform for irradiated materials.

UT is partnering with Roane State Communicty College and TCAT to provide students with nuclear technology training to create a skilled workforce.

PhD student Katie Butler served as the finance chair for the International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology hosted by ORNL, making the event a success.

Khalid Hattar is part of two Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy awards of more than $2M that focus on plasma-facing surface relationships for fusion energy systems.

CROET has given two scholarships to our department to be awarded to undergraduate students that have graduated from Oak Ridge High School.

Associate Professor and the Pietro F. Pasqua Faculty Fellow Ilja Popovs has been elected a foreign member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.

Vald Sobes, Amanda Bachmann, Lane Carasik, Tyler Steiner, and Fan Zhang have been named to the second annual Nuclear News “40 Under 40” list.