Cultivating Farmers’ Resilience to Flash Droughts and Flash Floods
A multidisciplinary team is using their individual expertises to develop a decision support tool for row crop producers facing short-term weather extremes.
Rewalt Named to Transportation Research Board Committee
PhD student Allison Rewalt has been selected for the Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committee on Pedestrians, ultimately striving for bus stop safety.
TCE’s Cherry, Pulgar Receive Fulbright Awards
CEE Professor Christopher Cherry and EECS Associate Professor Hector Pulgar have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2025-26 academic year.
UT Awarded $1 Million through Transportation Network Growth Opportunity Initiative
Three professors at UT Knoxville and their collaborators at NTT DATA were awarded $500K to create a public-facing disaster management and preparedness platform.
Li Develops Revolutionary Flood Hazard Forecasting System
Haochen Li is developing a deep learning empowered flood hazard forecasting system for the East TN area that is more accurate than current flood risk models.
Novel Research Addresses South Asia Pedestrian Safety
Saurav Parajuli published a paper about his pedestrian safety in South Asia research, addressing a need for data in low-income countries to prevent fatalities.
Zhou’s Team Creates Mossy Tiles to Cool Cities
After two years, three postdocs in Nick Zhou’s lab are ready to put PhantoM to its first real-world test, turning a shed into a self-sustaining moss garden.
CEE PhD Student Heads Bone Modeling Study
A team headed by PhD student Debangshu Paul incorporated goat studies and human medicine to create the first open source model predicting tibia fractures.
Martin’s Passion for Water Encompasses Sailing and Research
From the moment he arrived on Rocky Top, Tucker Martin has balanced his passions for sailing on the state’s waterways and studying how to preserve them.
Davis, Rewalt Named UTC Outstanding Students of the Year
Matthew Davis and Allison Rewalt were both honored at the 34th annual University Transportation Program’s Student of the Year awards ceremony in Washington D.C.