University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Knoxville, TN·Public·Medical school
16 labs on PI Pages. It spends $387M a year on research and awards 426 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 39,187: 30,577 undergraduates, 8,610 graduate
- Postdocs
- 158
- Faculty
- 1,834 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Kevin Shaughnessy
Chemistry
Systematically study metal-catalyzed functionalization of halo-closo-borates, boron cage anions carrying a halogen handle, to establish how catalyst structure governs reactivity with these electron-rich anionic clusters.
Jacob Suissa
Ecology & Evolution
Test the Drought-Driven Hypothesis by measuring how vulnerable fern leaves, rhizomes and roots are to drought-induced embolism, the air blockages in water-conducting tubes, and linking this to vascular anatomy at architectural, tissue and cellular scales.
Karen King
Earth & Environmental Science·Early-career
Use quantitative wood anatomy, measurements of individual wood cells in tree rings, to build high-resolution temperature and precipitation records over the last millennium across temperate North America.
Chelsea Mackaman-Lofland
Earth & Environmental Science
Test whether high mountains in western Anatolia delayed hominoid migration from Africa into Eurasia. Reconstruct basin history, crustal thickness from zircon geochemistry, and past elevation using proxy-based paleoaltimetry.
Carolyn Brook Ibberson
Microbiology & Immunology
Map the three-dimensional metabolic landscape of polymicrobial chronic wound communities at micron scale, combining confocal imaging, imaging mass spectrometry and spatial metatranscriptomics with the team's computational pipeline.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.