Research & Innovation

Dr. Jodi Polaha of ETSU’s Quillen College of Medicine is part of the Leadership Tennessee Signature Program Class XII.

ETSU educators have earned a seat in the 2025-26 cohort of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Emerging Leaders Program.

Five trailblazing companies selected for Beta Tech accelerator, backed by ETSU.

ETSU will mark 25 years since the Gray Fossil Sites discovery with a public celebration on May 31 featuring new exhibits and more.

PBS Eons spotlighted ETSU professor Dr. Steven Wallace and the Gray Fossil Site in an episode exploring the evolution of red pandas.

ETSU's Dr. Mark Kleinman recently received a 2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study age-related macular degeneration.

ETSU's Dr. Theresa McGarry has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will study Colloquial Sinhala as part of an immersive project in Sri Lanka.

Dr. Justin Ledogar and researchers published a new study suggesting the earliest human ancestors may have ditched hard foods earlier than previously believed.

Award-winning filmmaker and ETSU professor Stokes Piercy has been named a 2025-26 Fulbright Scholar.

ETSU is proud to announce that nine students have been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for spring 2025.

Eric Jorgenson represented ETSU at the national AI Biotechnology Summit, highlighting ETSU's leadership in rural biomanufacturing and applied research.

Investments from Governor Bill Lee and the Tennessee General Assembly will top $59 million in funds at ETSU in 2025-26.

More than 300 students, faculty and staff participated in ETSU's Dr. Jay W. Boland Research Day.

Leah Loveday, an ETSU junior studying Community Health, has won the highly competitive Truman Scholarship, marking the university's second winner in two years.

Steve Ellis is the first non-pharmacist to ever earn the Student Advocacy Award from the Tennessee Society of Student Pharmacists.

An ETSU scientist is studying how to naturally enhance vitamin levels in soybeans using gene activation and cutting-edge tools like machine learning.

ETSU's Center for Applied Research and Evaluation (CARE) in Women's Health has impacted maternal and child health in Appalachia and the Southeast.

Dr. Mike Stoots has been awarded the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health's prestigious Teaching Excellence Award in 2025.

ETSU students Leah Loveday and Gunnar Wolf Stewart have been selected as finalists for the prestigious 2025 Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

Researchers have identified a giant flying squirrel species at the Gray Fossil Site, offering new insights into Southern Appalachia's prehistoric wildlife.

Five ETSU students, staff and faculty made the semifinals for the 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholarships, with winners to be announced by June.

In 2024, Southern Appalachia experienced unprecedented weather extremes, including record-breaking heatwaves and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Helene.

ETSU researchers have examined the devastating effects of the 1918 Spanish flu in Appalachia, uncovering lessons that resonate in the wake of COVID-19.

ETSU researchers are studying beaver distribution revealing how these ecosystem engineers may adapt to future environmental shifts.

Dr. Richard Prince has joined a team in discovering lipocartilage, a groundbreaking tissue with potential for regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.

A $170K grant from the “Save America’s Treasures” program will help ETSU preserve irreplaceable Appalachian history.

ETSU achieved a notable climb in the 2023 Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) rankings after a banner year for research.

The ETSU Research Corporation named Jon Wood as the new chief intellectual property officer.

The U.S. Dept. of Defense awarded the ETSU Research Corporation over $900K as part of the Defense Industrial Base Consortium.

ETSU's Dr. Andrew Herrmann published a new book on autoethnography. The Journal of Autoethnography, which he founded, received the Best New Journal Award.