An estimated 1,300 students who transfer each year from Tennessee community colleges to four-year institutions before finishing their associate degrees will soon be able to get that degree credential thanks to “reverse transfer” and a partnership involving every public and a range of private higher education institutions in the state.
Technology that lights up cells to enable study of the effects of drugs and monitor disease is among The Scientist magazine’s top 10 innovations of 2013. It’s also a University of Tennessee technology and licensed by a Knoxville-based startup company.
The University of Tennessee will increase its minimum starting pay rate to $9.50 an hour for all regular full- and part-time employees, effective June 30, 2014.
Treatment for age-related macular degeneration, technology to alert nurses when a newborn patient’s endotracheal tube tip is out of position and a sensor to check for contaminates in jet fuel are among the recipients of funding from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation.
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation recorded an all-time high of 145 invention disclosures and filed a record 87 U.S. patent applications for FY 2013, according to its recently released annual report.
