QUEST is a celebration of research, scholarship, and creative activity of faculty and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. QUEST’s website, magazine, newsletters, and reports highlight significant discoveries and achievements that build new knowledge, solve emerging problems, and expand the creative thinking essential for a healthy, productive society. Look for these stories and more in the print edition of QUEST magazine later this fall.
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Rewriting a 50-year-old Classic
Looking Below the Surface
Let's Get Small
Youth and Violence
UT Knoxville Wins $16M Mathematics and Biology Center — Mathematicians and biologists will converge at NIMBioS to find creative solutions to pressing problems from animal disease to wildfire control. Learn more.
Strayhorn Awarded NSF Grant for Faculty Research — The NSF has awarded Terrell Strayhorn a CAREER Award to study the participation of women and minorities in science and other technical fields. Learn more.
Three Students Win Grants to Study in Europe — Two doctoral students and one undergraduate will study and do research in Europe this academic year funded by prestigious awards. Learn more.
Findings Explain Genetic Disorder's Unique Shift — Professor Francisco Ubeda’s research indicates the amount of care a father gives to his child with Prader-Willi Syndrome may cause a shift in symptoms. Learn more.
Grant to Fund Youth Mental Health Programs Research — A $1,483,573 grant from the W.T. Grant Foundation will fund research on mental health programs serving at-risk youth. Learn more.
Professor Finds Unexpected Key to Flowering Plants' Diversity — New published research shows how the evolution of pollen tube traits are vital to plant diversification. Learn more.
UT Knoxville Researchers Uncover Information on New Superconductors — Dr. Pengcheng Dai and his team recently published major new findings about high-temperature superconducting materials. Learn more.
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