Funding and Award News
Keep current on Tennessee Tech’s research funding and award news to learn more about groundbreaking research projects conducted by our brilliant, faculty, students, and colleagues.
Tennessee Tech University set an all-time record for externally funded research for the fifth year in a row, reaching nearly $48 million for fiscal year 2025.
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Tech professors and students honored for award-winning engineering education research
Tennessee Tech University professors Pedro E. Arce and Andrea Arce-Trigatti were recently selected to give the prestigious Thomas C. Evans Award lecture at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education Southeast Section (ASEE-SE)...
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An assistant professor of Chemistry at Tennessee Tech University and her students are tackling one of medicine’s persistent challenges: how to make life-saving drugs more effective by helping them dissolve better in the human body.
That work – and the innovation, collaboration and education it entails – has earned Oana Andreea Cojocaru the 2025 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities, prestigious recognition that supports early-career faculty through seed funding and professional development.
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New From the College of Business
The TN Tech College of Business is a leader in technology-focused business education and research. It's the ideal destination for students and researchers seeking to inspire innovation, leadership, and value creation.
Read the current issue of Research from the College of Business highlighting transformative research initiatives that exemplify the commitment to research, mentorship, and community engagement.
Recent Funding and Awards
- Tennessee Tech awarded $1.3 million U.S. Department of Energy grant for groundbreaking chemistry researc
- Tennessee Tech receives $4.8 million federal grant to improve electric vehicle battery recycling