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January 06, 2019 | Tom Ballard

Babu succeeds Riedinger as Director of Bredesen Center

And, in another announcement with University of Tennessee (UT) connections, UT Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced that Suresh Babu will succeed Lee Riedinger as Director of their jointly operated Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education. Babu will also retain his position as UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for Advanced Manufacturing. Riedinger, the inaugural head of the prestigious program, retires at the end of this month.


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