Scientific Research | Amanda Womac

Getting Under Your Skin

Warm summer evenings are often accented with the seemingly magical illumination of fireflies. While not the only species that glows, fireflies are perhaps the best-known ...Read More

Women in STEM is no recent phenomenon

One of the challenges facing women in STEM disciplines is the lack of role models girls have when it comes to female mentors in science, engineering, technology and math. ...Read More

Study finds 3-1 shortfall of women in STEM careers

Women in the United States have made great strides in education and entry in the workplace over the past 50 years, yet they continue to be underrepresented in science, ...Read More

Science struggles to save dying coral

Some of the oldest and most diverse ecosystems on the planet are the coral reefs in the earth’s oceans. Home to more than one million species, they play an important part ...Read More

Conservation efforts at work in Tennessee’s waterways

They haven’t spent 73 days in an underwater habitat, but researchers and volunteers with several organizations in Tennessee have spent hundreds of hours snorkeling their ...Read More

Quick history of cloaking devices

Dr. Ramki Kalyanaraman, associate professor of materials science engineering, and his colleague Dr. Gerd Duscher at UT are not the only people working to develop cloaking ...Read More

The science behind making the visible invisible

Researchers like Dr. Rami Kalyanaraman and Gerd Duscher, associate professors of materials science engineering at the University of Tennessee, could not develop cloaking ...Read More

Vanderbilt professor honored for cloaking research

Dr. Jason Valentine, assistant professor of both mechanical and electrical engineering at Vanderbilt University, got his start in cloaking research as a graduate student at ...Read More

UT, Vanderbilt scientists are taking the science fiction out of invisibility

Ferris Hall is an unassuming brick building on the edge of the University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering campus and home to the Department of Materials Science ...Read More

Numbers Expert

Scientists and researchers address many interesting and difficult challenges on a daily basis. Some look for solutions by applying simple observation techniques. Others ...Read More