Organized Research Unit Proposals
ORU FY10 Funding Summary
Based on evalution of proposals and presentations submitted by Organized Research Units (ORUs) for FY10, nine new ORUs will receive a total of $381,000 through the Vice Chancellor of Research. Seven existing ORUs will continue to receive funding totalling just under $1.6 million. Four Joint Institutes will share $1.3 million in funding. The total amount distributed will exceed $3.27 million. For more details, download the ORU FY10 Funding Summary (PDF).
Proposals and Funding Information
The following ORUs submitted funding proposals for FY10. The linked PDF documents are accessible only by UT Knoxville faculty and staff.
To see trend analysis charts for currently funded research units, scroll to the bottom of this page or click here.
Unfunded Unit Proposals
- Center for Health Science Research (added 1/27/09)
- Center for Information & Communication Studies
- Infectious Disease Diagnosis
- Center on Disability and Employment
- Center for Thermal-Fluid-Structural Multi-physics Research
- MARCO Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
- Center for the Study of Social Justice
- Korn-Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills Center (KLASS)
- Nuclear Engineering Proposal: DUSEL (N-Nbar)
- Plant Research Center
- M-CERV
- Antibiotic Resistance Model Development Research Unit
- Nuclear Security Science & Analysis
- Integrative Bio-Psychological Stress Research Group
- Research on Cultural Narratives: Enhancing Social Justice, Equity, and International Exchange in Education
- Risk and Health Communication
- Center for the Study of War & Society
- Center for Literacy Studies
- Effective Systems of Multi-Level Evaluation of Online Learning Methods
- Center for Applied and Professional Ethics
- Center for Public Health
- Center for Higher Education Research & Policy
- The Humanitites Initiative
- Tennessee Urban Design and Community Development Center
- Institute for Smart Structures
- Scintillation Materials Research Center
Currently Funded Units
Where available, statistical data for each currently funded unit accompanies its propsal. For background on this data, click here.
- Center for Environmental Biotechology (CEB)
- Center for Transportation Research (CTR)
- Institute for Secure & Sustainable Environment/Water Resources Research Center (ISSE)
- Center for Information Technology Research (CITR)
- Obesity Research Center (ORC)
- Center for Study of Youth & Political Violence (CSYPV)
- Sustainable Energy & Education Research Center (SEERC)
Joint Institutes
- Joint Institute of Biological Sciences (JIBS)
- Joint Institute of Computational Sciences (JICS)
- Joint Institute of Neutron Sciences (JINS)
- Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM)
- UT/ORNL Research Computing (CSI)
Five-Year Trend Analysis Charts
The charts presented here show five-year trends for currently funded UT Knoxville research centers and joint institutes (those not shown have been formed too recent to have a history). These files link to PDF documents accessible only by UTK faculty and staff.
Contact Information
UT Knoxville Office of Research
1534 White Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-1529
Phone: (865) 974-3466
Fax: (865) 974-7400
Email: research@utk.edu