Dr. Jashan Kaur won first place at UT’s Postdoctoral Research Symposium. Jashan obtained her Ph.D. from South Dakota State University in May 2021. She is now a Postdoctoral scientist under…
Jashan Kaur wins first place
Women in Construction Student Club
Herbert’s Construction Science Management program started a Women in Construction (WIC) Student Club, which is working in conjunction with the Construction Science Student Club. WIC is in the process of…
Study Abroad Opportunity in Croatia
ESS 494/593 is a 3 credit hour summer mini-term study-abroad course open to both undergraduate and graduate students. The program take place over May 18 – June 7, 2024. Student…
Maddie Ginsberg was awarded 1st place at Beltwide
Maddie Ginsberg, Biosystems Engineering graduate student under Dr. Lori Duncan, won first place in the poster competition in the Sustainability Conference at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences. The title of her…
2023 CSM Career Job Fair and Reception
Once again the Construction Science Management (CSM) Job Fair and Employer and student reception was a success. The reception, held on October 18, 2023, at The Foundry in Knoxville, enabled…
Construction Student Alumni Profile: Brent Parker
Brent Parker graduated from UT in the winter of 2018. He currently works as an assistant virtual design in construction (VDC) manager at the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company in Maryland. His…
BESS Awardees & Promotions
The following BESS staff and faculty were recognized at the August 15, 2023 Awards and Promotions Luncheon (from left to right): tenure at the rank of Full Professor, Dr. Joe…
Rounak Patra’s success at the Ecological Society of America Meeting
Rounak Patra, who is a Ph.D. Candidate co-mentored by Drs. Sindhu Jagadamma and Deb Saha, recently attended the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon from August 6…
Graduate student gets Southern SARE award
Ravi Neelipally, Ph.D. candidate in Jagadamma Lab, has received the 2023 Southern SARE Graduate Student Grant of $16,500. The proposal focuses on determining the viability of organic wheat-soybean double-crop systems…
Interdisciplinary Team Studies Decomposition Effects on Soil
BESS’ Drs. DeBruyn, Essington and Taylor teamed up the with the Center for Agricultural Synthetic Biology, the Forensic Anthropology Center and Civil and Environmental Engineering to study the elements released…