In fall 1963 a 10-year Ford Foundation grant, totaling $750,000, provided funding to allow 20 Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists to spend 20 percent of their time as full-fledged, albeit part-time, faculty at UT. The arrangement also allowed UT graduate students in physics, chemistry, chemical and metallurgical engineering, and mathematics to do research at ORNL for their doctoral dissertations. UT used other funding to establish similar programs with ORNL in nuclear engineering and engineering mechanics.