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December 2021

  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ receives prestigious Carnegie R1 designation as a top tier research university
  • UofM chosen as finalist in EDA’s $1 Billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge

November 2021

  • UofM secures $2.7M grant from the National Defense Authorization Act
  • CodeCrew HQ relocates to University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ UMRF Research Park

September 2021

  • $1.75 million grant awarded to researchers including UofM’s Jim Adelman to study host variation
  • FedEx Institute of Technology kicks-off Technology Serving Humanity Series

August 2021

July 2021

June 2021

  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ and Meharry Medical College Launch PECIR Program, Driving Research Collaborations
  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Biological Sciences Faculty Published in High-profile Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

May 2021

  • UofM’s Sabri receives another patent featuring temperature sensing technology
  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Biological Sciences Faculty Published in High-profile Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A.

April 2021

  • FedEx Institute of Technology and Epicenter Launch Two More Science-Based Startups, Building on the Entrepreneurial Landscape in ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
  • UofM's Dr. Maryam Salehi receives $453,144 NSF CAREER Award

March 2021

  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Celebrates Patents Worldwide
  • UofM’s Dr. Ana Doblas receives $593,239 NSF CAREER Award

February 2021

  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ announces new Institute for Arts and Health

January 2021

  • University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ UMRF Research Park receives Soft Landings designation

December 2020

  • Meharry Medical College, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ announce historic collaboration to diversify provider pipeline and advance health care education

November 2020

October 2020

  • Press Release (10/26/2020): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Partners with U.S. Geological Survey to Expand Water Research
  • CNN (10/16/2020): 
  • Press Release (10/14/2020): Raymond James builds talent pipeline with new University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ partnership
  • Press Release (10/6/2020): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ named regional award winner and national finalist for APLU Community Engagement Scholarship Award
  • Press Release (10/2/2020): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Herff College of Engineering awarded $1 million grant to establish Mid-South Advanced Automation and Robotics Center

September 2020

  • Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) Blog (09/21/2020): 
  • The Tennessee Tribune (09/17/2020): 
  • Daily Memphian (09/11/2020): FedEx Institute offers all-women hackathon
  • FOX13 News (09/11/2020): 
  • Press Release (9/10/2020): FedEx Institute of Technology hosting ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½' All Women Virtual Hackathon: ATHENA{techne}
  • Press Release (09/08/2020): UMRF Research Park member MiCare Path acknowledged as a top patient monitoring solution of 2020
  • Press Release (09/04/2020): UofM hires Dr. Christos Papadopoulos as Sparks Family Chair of Excellence
  • Press Release (09/03/2020): UofM's Gopalakrishnan receives $363,782 DOE award for studying chemical recombination of gas-phase ions
  • Daily Memphian (09/03/2020): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (09/03/2020): 
  • Press Release (09/03/2020): UMRF Ventures names Pierre Landaiche new CEO
  • Press Release (09/02/2020): UofM receives first world ranking by Times Higher Education
  • Press Release (09/02/2020): UofM named finalist for 2020 APLU Innovation & Economic Prosperity Universities Awards

August 2020

  • Daily Memphian (08/28/20): 
  • Press Release (08/27/20): Nearly $1M UofM Loewenberg College of Nursing HRSA Grant to Fund RNs LEAD Project
  • Press Release (08/24/20): UofM's Salehi Receives Nearly $330,000 NSF Environmental Engineering Award
  • Press Release (08/20/20): UofM Launches Center for Community Research and Evaluation
  • Press Release (08/19/20): $1.4 million grant awarded to UofM's AutoTutor for Adult Reading Comprehension
  • Press Release (08/13/20): UofM's CERI specialists traveling to North Carolina to monitor aftershocks of magnitude 5.1 earthquake
  • News Medical Life Sciences (8/6/20): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (8/5/20):
  • Press Release (8/5/20): Nine UofM/UTHSC Teams Awarded in Collaborative Grant Competition for COVID-19 Research
  • Press Release (8/4/20): Jennings Receives Nearly $500,000 DOD Award to Develop Healing Technologies for Burn Wounds

July 2020

  • Press Release (7/29/20): Jennings Receives NSF Early CAREER Award to Create Materials Resistant to Biofilm
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Flyer (7/29/20): UofM Research Aims at Tech Innovations in Health, Technology 
  • Press Release (7/16/20): UofM Receives $5.9 Million NIH Grant for a National Center in AI-based mHealth Research
  • Press Release (7/16.20): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Creates Center for Transportation Innovation, Education and Research
  • Press Release (7/2/20): UofM's Gopalakrishnan Receives $750,000 U.S. DOE EARLY CAREER Award
  • News Medical Life Sciences (7/1/20): 
  • Press Release (7/1/20): UofM/UTHSC Collaborative Grant Competition Yields 23 COVID-19 Research Proposals

June 2020

  • Daily Memphian (6/19/20): 
  • Daily Memphian (6/18/20): 
  • MBJ (6/12/20): 
  • MBJ (6/11/20): 
  • Press Release (6/10/20): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ receives $9.4 million from HRSA to advance Social Work, Nursing and College of Education: Awards will fund hundreds of scholarship opportunities over the next five years
  • Press Release (6/1/20): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ offering webinar series on supporting vulnerable populations via telehealth

May 2020

  • Press Release (5/14/20): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ doctoral student awarded NIH F31 fellowship
  • Press Release (5/11/20): UofM School of Communication Sciences and Disorders creates communication boards for ICU patients
  • Daily Memphian (5/1/2020): 

April 2020

  • Fox 13 News (4/27/2020): 
  • Press Release (4/23/20): UofM committed to reducing research innovation barriers during COVID-19 pandemic
  • Daily Memphian (4/19/20): 
  • Press Release (4/17/20): FedEx Institute of Technology Holding Virtual Hackathon to Highlight Important Issues During Pandemic
  • Press Release (4/14/20): Salehi Conducts Water Quality Research in Response to COVID-19 Building Closures
  • NIH Press Release (4/13/20): 
  • NSF Press Release (4/10/20): 
  • Fox 13 News (4/8/20): 
  • News Channel 3 (4/8/20): 
  • Channel 5 News (4/8/20): 
  • Channel 24 News (4/8/20): 
  • Press Release (4/7/20): MD2K Researchers Launch New App for Personal Tracking of Social Distancing
  • Press Release (4/1/20): UofM 3D-Printing Face Shield Frames for Le Bonheur and State Hospitals

March 2020

  • Daily Memphian (3/30/20): 
  • Local 24 WATN (3/24/20): 
  • Press Release (3/16/20): Three UofM Researchers Receive AAC Academic Consortium Grants
  • Press Release (3/11/20): UofM Theatre Professor Receives Prestigious Fulbright Scholarship

February 2020

  • Daily Memphian (02/25/20): 
  • Daily Memphian (02/12/20): 
  • Daily Memphian (02/09/20): 
  • Financial Content (02/04/20): 

January 2020

Devember 2019

  • Daily Memphian (12/08/2019): 
  • Daily Memphian (12/03/2019): 

November 2019

  • Press Release (11/25/2019): Silicon Valley Startup i2Chain Licenses Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication System Patent from University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ 
  • BBC Interview (11/21/2019):  (interview begins at 31:15)
  • BBC Interview (11/21/2019): 
  • Press Release (11/21/2019): UofM Biology Professor Publishes Article on Genomic Basis of Insect Biodiversity in National Academy of Sciences Journal

October 2019

  • MBJ (10/29/2019): 
  • MBJ (10/24/2019): 
  • Press Release (10/24/2019): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Receives $2.58 Million to Begin Data Science Learner Data Institute
  • Press Release (10/18/2019): Preterm Infants Produce Language-like Sounds As Soon As They Can Breathe Independently: Groundbreaking Research on the Origin of Language: Precursors to Language in Preterm Infants Still in Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Daily Memphian (10/17/2019): 
  • Press Release (10/15/2019): UofM and UTHSC Researchers Receive 2019 CORNET Award for Studies on Brain Exploration in Adolescents

September 2019

August 2019

  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Flyer (08/28/2019): 
  • Press Release (08/21/2019): UofM Licenses Four New Research Technologies
  • Press Release (08/19/2019): UofM Receives $1.9 Million to Combat Opioid Crisis
  • Press Release (08/15/2019): UofM and Porter-Leath to launch partnership for early childhood care behind $3.5 Million Urban Child Institute Grant
  • Commercial Appeal (08/15/2019): Can honey heal wounds? ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ startup SweetBio and Regional One team up to try
  • The Daily Memphian (08/08/2019): 
  • Press Release (08/02/2019): UofM Math Professor is First Woman to Receive Bellman Award

July 2019

  • dronebelow (07/19/2019): 
  • Press release (07/18/2019): LCON Receives $2.7 Million Grant for Family Nurse Practitioner Program
  • MBJ (07/03/2019): 
  • Press Release (07/02/2019): UMRF Research Park Joins Blockchain Consortium to Reclaim Medications and Prevent Prescription Waste

June 2019

  • Press Release (06/28/2019): UofM Research Foundation Announces Expansion of Student-Operated Call Center for UMRF Ventures:Facility to house expanded Level 1 and a new Level 2 Call Center for FedEx IT Support at UofM
  • Press Release (06/27/2019): CAESER Expanding to UofM Lambuth
  • Yahoo Finance (06/20/2019): 
  • Tech Transfer Central (06/12/2019): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (06/11/2019): How two ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ titans are growing local startup culture
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (06/06/2019): 

April 2019

  • Daily Memphian (04/09/2019): 
  • Press Release (04/05/2019): UofM Technology Spinoff Partners with AMS to Commercialize Water Safety Innovation
  • WMC5 (04/08/2019): 

March 2019

  • Press Release (03/22/2019): UofM Joins National Academy of Inventors
  • Press Release (03/18/2019): One Concern Partners with UofM's CERI on Resilience Research Collaboration
  • Forbes (03/11/2019): 
  • IGA Inventors Groups of America (03/04/2019): 
  • Press Release (03/04/2019): UofM Office of Technology Transfer Begins 2019 with Expanding Patent Portfolio

February 2019

  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (02/15/2019): 
  • Press Release (02/06/2019): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Launching New Research Cluster Focusing on Agriculture and Food Technologies

January 2019

  • The Daily Memphian (01/26/2019): 
  • Commercial Appeal (01/17/2019): Emerging companies find home at new University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ research park
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Flyer (01/15/2019): 
  • Press Release (01/15/2019): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Initiates Research Park to Spur Research-Based Economic Development

December 2018

  • Geospatial World (12/03/18): 

November 2018

  • Business Wire (11/30/2018): 
  • Press Release (11/01/2018): UofM CAESER Lands Five-Year, $5 Million Contract Aimed at Identifying and Addressing Water Quality Issues with the ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Aquifer

October 2018

  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (10/30/2018): 
  • Press Release (10/25/2018): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ First-in-the-Nation to Sign International Research Collaboration Agreement with Czech Academy of Sciences

July 2018

  • FreightWaves (07/17/2018): 
  • CryptoDaily (07/10/2018): 
  • ThirtyK (07/09/2018): FedEx Institute Partners on Blockchain to Deliver Cancer Meds to Needy
  • Commercial Appeal (07/06/2018): FedEx Institute announces partnership with Good Shepherd Pharmacy company

June 2018

  • Commercial Appeal (06/19/2018): FedEx partnership with UofM adds IT command center, 45 technology jobs for students
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Flyer (06/18/2018): 
  • The Daily News (06/15/2018): 
  • Press Release (06/14/2018): ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½' First Women's Hackathon is a Celebration of Ingenuity, Innovation and Diversity in Technology
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (06/14/2018): 
  • VOA News (6/7/2018): 
  • The Commercial Appeal (06/05/2018): Blockchain startups pursue growth, workforce at FedEx Institute of Technology
  • Press Release (06/05/2018): FedEx Institute of Technology Attracts Two Blockchain Technology Startups to University District

May 2018

  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (05/29/2018): 
  • Press Release (05/29/2018): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Joins National Drone Testing Pilot Program
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (05/23/2018): 
  • The Commercial Appeal (05/23/2018): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ foundation expands student-staffed FedEx IT call center to Jackson
  • Press Release (05/23/2018): IT Call Center Brings Jobs to UofM Lambuth Campus: Will Serve as Second Center for FedEx IT Support at UofM
  • Bitcoin Magazine (05/23/2018): Here's What Happened At Graceland's Ethereum Conference
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (05/18/2018): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (05/14/2018): 
  • Drone Life (05/10/2018): 
  • CNET (05/09/2018): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (05/09/2018): 

April 2018

  • Daily News (04/23/2018): 
  • Press Release (04/23/2018): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Licenses Intellectual Property to St. Louis Company
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (04/18/2018): 
  • WMC Action News 5 (04/13/2018): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (04/11/2018): 
  • Press Release (04/09/2018): FedEx Institute of Technology hosts BIOMATERIALS Day 2018

March 2018

  • Press Release (03/20/2018): ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½' Largest Ethereum Hackathon Will Be Held at FedEx Institute of Technology

February 2018

  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ News Daily (02/12/2018): 
  • Press Release (02/07/2018): Leading Canadian Medical Technology Company to Relocate and Partner with UofM's FedEx Institute of Technology: Set Up Shop in University District

January 2018

  • Press Release (12/11/2017): UofM Makes Major Push into Additive Manufacturing
  • Press Release (12/06/2017): 
  • Press Release (10/31/2017): MD2K Annual Meeting Showcases Research, Sensors and Training
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (10/25/2017): 
  • The Young Turks Network (10/19/2017): 
  • Press Release (10/17/2017): UofM and FedEx Institute of Technology Celebrate Record Year in Technology Innovations at 2017 Inventor Celebration
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ News Daily (10/17/2017): 
  • The Daily News (10/16/2017): 
  • WMC Action News 5 (10/11/2017): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (10/05/2017): 
  • Press Release (10/02/2017): FedEx Institute Will Welcome Scientists and Students to Nanomaterials Symposium
  • Commercial Appeal (09/10/2017): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (09/07/17 - cover story): 
  • The Daily Helmsman (09/07/17): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Daily News - Daily Digest (09/04/17): 
  • The Commercial Appeal (09/02/17): 
  • Press Release (08/31/17): UofM FedEx Institute of Technology Invests in Eight New Technologies
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (08/29/17): 
  • Press Release (08/29/17): University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Research Foundation Announces Grand Opening of Student-Operated Call Center: FedEx Signs on as First Customer
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (08/16/17): 
  • WMC ACTION NEWS 5 (07/31/17):  
  • U.S. News (07/27/17): 
  • Daily News (07/07/17): 
  • ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Business Journal (07/06/17): 
  • High Ground news (04/13/17): 
  • MarketWatch (04/13/17): 
  • Press Release (04/07/17): FedEx Institute of Technology's Office of Technology Transfer Announces Newly Issued Patents
  • Press Release (04/03/17): UofM Will Welcome More Than 4,100 for NCUR This Week
  • Press Release (3/23/2017): FedEx Institute of Technology Builds on Commitment to Biologistics Research
  • MIT Presentation (03/13/2017): ( http://connectedthings.mitforumcambridge.org/overview/connected-things-2017-agenda/smart-cities-session/ ) Dr. Jasbir Dhaliwal, Executive Director, FedEx Institute of Technology & Chief Innovation Officer Speaks at MIT Conference - Smart Cities: Moving Beyond the Hype
  • MIT Presentation (03/13/2017): ( http://connectedthings.mitforumcambridge.org/overview/connected-things-2017-agenda/physical-cybersecurity-smart-city/ ) Dr. Lan Wang, Professor and Chair of Computer Science & CAST Research Cluster Fellow speaks at MIT Conference - Physical and Cybersecurity: The View from a Smart City Lens
  • Press Release (3/9/2017): FedEx Institute of Technology Announces 2017 DRONES Research Cluster Awards and Sponsors FPV DRONES Race
  • Press Release (2/23/2017): FedEx Institute of Technology Continues Commitment to Cyber Security Research
  • Press Release (2/3/2017): 
  • Press Release (1/30/2017): FedEx Institute and Indie ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Announces Winners of Film Innovation Challenge
  • Press Release (1/29/2017): 
  • Press Release (1/26/2017): FedEx Institute of Technology Partners with the City of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ to Create a Smart Cities Research Cluster at the University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½