Several media outlets including the Knoxville News Sentinel featured a new cost efficient and energy saving lighting system in Thompson-Boling Arena which was developed and installed by locally-based Bandit-LED North 
America. Called the SuperSport, the LED fixture uses graphite foam technology under exclusive license from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It’s smaller, lighter and brighter than traditional systems. The lights will be debuted during the UT-Vanderbilt men’s basketball game on March 1. To read the article, visit the Knoxville News Sentinel website (subscription required). Visit WBIR-TV’s website for more on venture and WVLT-TV’s website to see a story about the technology.