State Senator Janice Bowling and Representative Judd Matheny recently visited the HORIZON Center at the UT Space Institute to get an update on the Tennessee Aerothermodynamics Laboratory. L-r: Leader of UT’s Advocacy Program Ms. Carey Whitworth, H. H. Arnold Chair and Professor John Schmisseur, UTSI Executive Director Robert Moore, Representative Judd Matheny, State Senator Janice Bowling, UT VP for Government Relations & Advocacy Anthony Haynes, and UTSI Director of Technology Transfer and Economic Development Dr. Ahmad Vakili. – Photo by Laura Horton

UTSI Professor Trevor Moeller (back to camera and designer of the Mach 3 tunnel) and H. H. Arnold Chair and Professor John Schmisseur, far right, explains how the UTSI Mach 3 tunnel simulates high speed flow through a scramjet flow path to State Senator Janice Bowling (center blue jacket), VP for Government Relations & Advocacy Anthony Haynes (right of Bowling), Representative Judd Matheny, and the Leader of UT’s Advocacy Program Carey Whitworth (left). UTSI Executive Director Robert Moore (far left), UTSI Director of Technology Transfer and Economic Development Ahmad Vakili, Sam Harper (gold shirt), and UTSI Director of Facilities Joel Davenport look on.  – Photo by Laura Horton