Jim Thompson, professor of physics, and research assistant professor Yuri L. Zuev are members of a team that won R&D Magazine’s “R&D 100 Award” for their work on superconducting wires. Along with their colleagues, Thompson and Zuev created and tested a kind of superconducting wire that makes electricity transfer more efficient.

Yilu Liu has been named the fourth UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair. She will hold appointments at ORNL’s Energy and Transportation Science Division and UT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. More information.

Recognizing Kate Jones for receiving a prestigious Outstanding Junior Investigator Award from the Department of Energy.

Leon Tolbert, Min H. Kao Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, gave an invited talk titled, “Silicon Carbide’s Potential Impact on the Design of Wind Generation Systems” during the 1st Annual Symposium on Grid Integration of Wind Power held in Aalborg, Denmark. Tolbert is an International Advisory Board Member for Aalborg University’s Vestas Power Program, a strategic research and development alliance between Vestas Wind Systems and Aalborg University’s Department of Energy Technology.

Bin Hu, associate professor in materials science and engineering, has had an article published in the September issue of JOM, the journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society. The article is titled “Solar Energy-Conversion in Organic Solar Cells.”