Knoxville News Sentinel
The first executive director of the Oak Ridge Institute, a groundbreaking research partnership between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been announced.
Joan Bienvenue will serve as the executive director. Bienvenue is currently the senior executive director of the Applied Research Institute at the University of Virginia. She helped launch the institute there and has been the senior executive director since June 2013.
“The opportunity to lead this partnership between a national research university and the country’s leading science and energy laboratory holds transformative potential,” Bienvenue said in a news release.
“The institute is a truly visionary initiative that positions UT, ORNL and the state of Tennessee at the forefront of developing the research and talent required to lead the industries of the future. I can’t wait to get started,” she continued.
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