Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research and Education (TN-SCORE) is Tennessee's first NSF RII Track 1 Research Infrastructure award. It will provide a unique opportunity to develop the platform for enhanced research capacity and greater competitiveness within all Tennessee's diverse academic institutions.

Tennessee EPSCoR

Tennessee is a designated EPSCoR state. EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is a program administered by the National Science Foundation to assist states in boosting the level of research funding provided by NSF.

The Tennessee State EPSCoR Committee, created in Tennessee in April 2003, was established by the Tennessee public higher education system, Vanderbilt University and administrative and legislative branches of State government to capitalize on this opportunity. This committee is charged with defining the process for identifying and focusing investments on specific research areas to improve research competitiveness across Tennessee and the United States.

In addition, the committee is charged with making recommendations and programs to increase the research and research competitiveness across Tennessee. Major goals of the committee include:

•Increase collaboration between universities and the State of Tennessee
•Improve the educational science and technology learning
•Increase educational opportunities of under-represented groups

2013 TN-SCORE Annual Conference with Poster and Oral Presentation Competition

A research-focused student poster competition will be held at the 3rd Annual TN-SCORE Conference in Nashville, TN at the Aiport Marriott on June 10-11, 2013. The competition provides an opportunity for students to showcase their research. Posters will be judged and awards will be given to the top three posters. The winners will receive $1000 in travel stipend. Read More »

What's The Big Idea!?

Think you have a Big Idea for a new business? Apply and you may be selected as a contestant in What’s The Big Idea, a business plan competition presented by The Development Corporation of Knox County, the Knoxville Chamber, and Tech2020. Read More »

Tennessee CyberInfrastructure Symposium

The Tennessee CyberInfrastructure Symposium will be held April 3rd & 4th at Tennessee State University- This CI symposium will focus on educating both students and faculty to enhance their desktop applications into programs that run on computing clusters and eventually on supercomputers, to advance their data analysis to higher orders of magnitude. The workshop will feature successful projects utilizing high-performance computing (HPC) facilities as examples to educate the audience Read More »