Annual Report to the General Assembly 2013
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DISCOVER

Faculty and Student Research Leads to Better Outcomes and Lifestyles

Was there water on Mars? Associate Professor Linda Kah at UT Knoxville is part of NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover team analyzing whether the planet once had flowing water. They believe it did.

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Helpful Innovations

Evolution of Eye Care

Dr. Edward Chaum at UTHSC has come up with a way to help diabetics save their sight. With a colleague at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Chaum created a camera that sends a photo of the patient’s retina to a database to check for disease.
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Research Partnerships

Breaking the Mold book cover

UT is co-manager of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the lab’s largest research collaborator. This important partnership is chronicled in the book Breaking the Mold, published this year.
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Saving Southeastern Dairies

Saving Southeastern Dairies

The UT Institute of Agriculture is leading a six-state project to boost the dairy industry by improving herd health, milk quality and quantity by lowering the cases of mastitis. This is one of the many ways UT brings solutions to industry.
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Mocs Express Makeover

UTC Undergrad Engineering Students

UTC engineering students helped boost school spirit with a redo of the Mocs Express that made it safer and cooler with new lights and sounds.
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Revolutionizing Root Canals

Dr. George Huang

UTHSC researcher George Huang wants to revolutionize root canals. He’s working on a way to inject stem cell tissue into the root so the tooth will regenerate.
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Top Ten Green Project

Top Ten Green Project

Faculty and students at UT Knoxville designed a house that has been named a top 10 national example of sustainable architecture and green design. The New Norris House is a living laboratory for the future.
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Reptile Researcher

Keith Paluso

Keith Paluso's love for the outdoors and work with Tennessee State Parks during his college years prepared him for his career as a naturalist, researcher and educator.
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Rewarding Innovation

Doug Birdwell and Tsewi Wang

System-wide, the UT Research Foundation has had 81 U.S. patents issued in the last three years. Doug Birdwell and Tsewi Wang in the UT Knoxville College of Engineering together have 21 patents over their careers and their licensing agreements have generated $1.1 million in revenue. Their work has led to improvement in law enforcement DNA databases and analysis.
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Insights into Autism

Dr. Larry Reiter

Dr. Larry Reiter and other researchers at UTHSC and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital are studying a form of autism and the genetics that lead to the developmental disorder.
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Physician of the Year

Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack

Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack, expert in prediabetes and diabetes research, is the 2013 Internal Medicine Section Physician of the Year by the National Medical Association.
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Experiential Learning

ThinkAchieve Students participate in Clean and Green

ThinkAchieve development grants help take learning "Beyond the Classroom", in experiences close to campus and around the world.
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Zoo Living History

UTC students enrolled in a Primate Behavior class perform at the Chattanooga Zoo

UTC Students enrolled in a Primate Behavior class launched a new event at the Chattanooga Zoo called “Fall for the Animals.”
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Civil War Scholar

UTC students enrolled in a Primate Behavior class perform at the Chattanooga Zoo

UT Martin history professor Dr. David Coffey explores West Tennessee's Civil War past.
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