October 29, 1999

U. of Tennessee to Help Manage Oak Ridge National Laboratory

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The University of Tennessee system and several partners have won a $2.5-billion, five-year contract to manage the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, one of the nation's largest facilities for energy research and development, the Energy Department announced last week.

Tennessee joins a small group of universities that have agreements to run some of the department's other labs. The institutions include the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the University

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