The University of Tennessee and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will begin a partnership that could bring 400 new graduate students to the state, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.
Gov. Phil Bredesen announced the plan, which could double the university’s research budget to $400 million, by saying he wants to create new energy sciences and engineering departments at the University of Tennessee, through it. In addition, about 200 faculty positions in the hard sciences will be created—although most will be researchers already present at the laboratory, the Chronicle reported.
