Our department is involved in four of the six Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. 

PhD student Alexis Sanwick’s work to improve neuroendocrine tumor (NET) treatment with a new radiopharmaceutical has been published in an international journal.

Our department has risen into the top 3 of the in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 top graduate schools, elevating the Tickle College of Engineering.

Jason Hayward was selected as the recipient of the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society Merit Award.

Livia Casali visited France with other selected experts to define phases of the new International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor research plans.

Assistant Professor Ivis Chaple Gore recently participated in the 2025 Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) Future Leaders Academy. 

The University of Tennessee’s Tickle College of Engineering unveiled a new Operator Training Simulator Laboratory in partnership with Kairos Power.

Assistant Professor and Zinkle Fellow Livia Casali had a paper recently published in a research journal as part of a special issue on negative triangularity.

Steve Zinkle is the lead principal investigator of a Fusion Innovation Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives proposal that will receive $20M in funding.

While studying zirconia in Maik Lang’s lab, NE alum Alexandre Solomon discovered an atomic-scale surprise that’s shaking up metastable materials science.