The following awards were granted in April 2016. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
(The downloadable spreadsheet has been temporarily removed while data is amended.)
UT Knoxville Awards (4/1/16 – 4/31/16)* |
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Investigator |
Title |
Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
College of Architecture & Interior Design |
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Collett, Bradford |
Regional Water quality Improvement Playbook |
Southeast Tennessee Development District |
$24,500 |
|
Poole, John |
Operating funds in support of Philip Enquist’s Governor’s Chair 14-15 |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,834 |
|
College of Arts & Sciences |
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Allison, David |
Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,847 |
|
Becker, Jeffrey |
The quiesome and signalosome of a model GPCR |
HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
$276,260 |
|
Dolislager, Fredrick |
Hosting and Maintenance of an Alaska-Specific Risk-Based Cleanup Levels Calculator |
State of Alaska |
$130,000 |
|
Emery, Joshua |
OSIRIS-REx |
University of Arizona (UA) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$13,705 |
Fitzpatrick, Benjamin |
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Does Transgressive Segregation in PhysiologicalNiche Explain the Rapid Spread of Invasive Genes into a Native Population |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$18,493 |
|
Gross, Louis |
UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$30,000 |
|
Gross, Louis |
UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$150,000 |
|
Hollenbach, Kandace |
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 9GN173, Glyn County, GA |
Brockington and Associates |
$10,279 |
|
Hollenbach, Kandace |
Subsistence Analysis of Sites 1Ma279 & 1Ma597, Madison County, Alabama |
Brockington and Associates |
$3,659 |
|
Hughes, Karen |
Digitization TCN: Collaborative: The macrofungi Collections Consortium: Unlocking a biodiversity resource for unde54rstanding biotic interactions, nutrient cycling and human affairs |
The New York Botanical Garden |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
-$31,044 |
Kalisz, Susan |
Messy breakups of the plant and fungal world: mutualism disruption and plant reproductive allocation shifts caused by allelopathic invaders could be a mechanism of native biodiversity decline |
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens |
$5,000 |
|
Labrador-San Jose, Mariano |
FMR1 protein and chromatin insulators mediate chromatin function and genome integrity |
HHS – NIH – NINDS – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
$226,500 |
|
Lloyd, Karen |
The role of uncultured microbes in the Arctic marine sediment carbon cycle |
Simons Foundation |
$540,000 |
|
McKinney, Michael |
Monitoring survey of the threatened Mountain magazine shagreen land snail |
USDA – Forest Service |
$10,000 |
|
Moersch, Jeffrey |
From Habitability to Biosignatures: Changing Planetary Environments and the Fingerprints of Life |
SETI Institute |
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
$29,167 |
Smith, Jeremy |
Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Mercury Transformation |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
-$99 |
|
Steen, Andrew |
Does hydroxyl radical liberate bioavailable organic carbon in subsurface sediments? |
Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$78,094 |
Taylor, Lawrence |
SSERVI Environment and Evolution of Exploration Destinations: Science and Engineering synergism -SEEED. |
Brown University (BU) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$9,662 |
Taylor, Lawrence |
Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Sciences (CLASS) |
University of Central Florida (UCF) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$16,269 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Chen Qian GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$16,000 |
|
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Weili GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$1,795 |
|
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Graduate Research – Sanjeev Dahal (Ussery lab) |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,000 |
|
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Diurnal and Circadian Control of Protein Synthesis |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$150,595 |
|
Williams, Richard |
Operation and Maintenance of CTBTO Auxiliary Seismic Station AS107/TKL |
Southern Methodist University (SMU) |
DOD – SEC – DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
$3,375 |
Zhao, Bin |
Thermally Responsive Nanoparticle Dispersions Via Brush-Grafting |
Applied Physics Laboratory – Johns Hopkins University (APL JHU) |
DOD – Department of Defense |
$42,689 |
College of Communication & Information |
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Potnis, Devendra |
Project MISSILE (Mobile Information Skills and Solutions in Library Education) |
US – NARA – Institute of Museum and Library – Office of Museum Services |
$40,121 |
|
Tenopir, Carol |
Experience Assessment: Building User Experience and Assessment Capabilities in Libraries and Information Centers (Master’s Level Project) |
US – NARA – Institute of Museum and Library – Office of Museum Services |
$811,501 |
|
College of Engineering |
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Benson, Roberto |
DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICAL PRETREATMENT AND STABILIZATION ROUTES FOR SPIDER SILK CARBON FIBER PRECURSOR |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$32,264 |
|
Berry, Michael |
Graduate Research Assistantship for Master Students (GRAMS) – MSSE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$12,500 |
|
Berry, Michael |
Graduate Research Assistantship for Master Students (GRAMS) – MSSE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,091 |
|
Braiman, Yehuda |
High power blue diode laser array for underwater applications |
DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research |
$124,999 |
|
Burton, Mark |
Continued Support for Appalachian Rail Capacity Conservation |
US – ARC – Appalachian Regional Commission |
None |
$30,000 |
Cherry, Christopher |
Assessment of Mobility and Transit Access to Captive Riders in Suburban and Rural Areas – RES2016-16 |
Univeristy of Memphis (UM) |
Tennessee Department of Transportation |
$94,401 |
Donovan, David |
Fusion Materials and Technology |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,046 |
|
Egami, Takeshi |
Physics of metallic glasses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$38,887 |
|
Ekici, Kivanc |
Support of the Standard Modular Hydropower Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,000 |
|
Gao, Wei |
Acquisition of Software-Defined Radio Equipments for Adaptive Mobile Networking at the Tactical Edge |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$125,758 |
|
Gregor, Jens |
Limited view image reconstruction |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$45,000 |
|
Gregor, Jens |
Reconstruction algorithms for neutron imaging device |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$106,514 |
|
Hazen, Terry |
Administrative Support for East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition |
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition |
$86,899 |
|
Hazen, Terry |
ENIGMA subcontract |
DOE – SC – LBL – Lawrence Berkely National Lab – University of California |
$79,795 |
|
Heilbronn, Lawrence |
Nuclear Energy Fellowship/Scholarship Program |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
-$5,500 |
|
Huang, Jian |
Visualizing Urban Micro-Climate and Energy Efficiency |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,000 |
|
Irick, David |
Performance of a Thermoelectric Waste Heat Recovery System on an Automotive Engine |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$179,518 |
|
Kihm, Kenneth |
Multi-Scale Energy Transport in High Temperature heat pipes for Leading Edges |
Lockheed Martin |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$47,595 |
Langston, Michael |
Confidential |
BAE Systems Information and Electronic Warfare |
DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory |
$50,000 |
Langston, Michael |
Genetic and Inflammatory Markers of Sepsis |
University of Pittsburgh (PITT) |
$700 |
|
Maldonado, Guillermo |
Performance Assessment of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuels within Aggressive Operational Power Histories |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$213,255 |
|
Mukherjee, Dibyendu |
Measurement of dissolved Oxygen content in Silicon single crystals using advanced Quantitative Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (Q-LIBS) |
SunEdison Semiconductor Limited |
$56,501 |
|
Nguyen, Ke |
Catalyst Aging and Poisoning |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,819 |
|
Papanicolaou, Athanasios |
Support of the Standard Modular Hydropower Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,000 |
|
Papanicolaou, Athanasios |
Increasing the Resilience of Agricultural Production in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Basin through More Efficient Water Resource Use |
University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture – AgResearch |
USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture |
$270,539 |
Papanicolaou, Athanasios |
A Critical Zone Observatory for Intensively Managed Landscapes |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$94,771 |
Rack, Philip |
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$50,965 |
|
Ragauskas, Arthur |
THF Co-Solvent Biomass Fractionation to Catalytic Fuel Precursors with High Yields |
University of California, Riverside (UCR) |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$400,000 |
Rawn, Claudia |
Center for Integrative Materials Joining Science for Energy Applications (CIMJSEA) Membership Agreement |
DOE – UT-Battelle, LLC |
$50,000 |
|
Rawn, Claudia |
Membership Agreement |
Welding Research |
$25,000 |
|
Reinbolt, Jeffrey |
Furthering University of Tennessee Undergraduate Research Education (FUTURE) for Team-Based Design in Biomedical Engineering |
HHS – NIH – NIBIB – National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering |
$43,200 |
|
Sawhney, Rapinder |
FCM Fuel Production Process Model and Roadmap Analysis |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$30,000 |
|
Skutnik, Steven |
GO! PGM Logistics studies of used nuclear fuel transport for the Nuclear Fuels Storage and Transportation Planning Project (NFST) |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$18,479 |
|
TerMaath, Stephanie |
Probabilistic Multi-Scale Damage Tolerance Modeling of Composite Patches for Naval Aluminum Alloys |
DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research |
$110,000 |
|
Vaidya, Uday |
Governor |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
-$27,000 |
|
Wang, Dali |
An Agent-based Simulation and Analysis Framework for Cell Development (year 2) |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
$55,590 |
|
Wirth, Brian |
Modeling Nuclear Fuels Performance: Pellet Clad Interaction |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$51,192 |
|
Young, Matthew |
Capstone Sponsor Agreement |
Eastman Chemical Co. |
$15,000 |
|
College of Social Work |
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Cunningham, Maryanne |
Evaluation of Douglas-Cherokee Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program — Expansion (TOP) |
Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority |
HHS – OASH – Office of Adolescent Health |
$45,733 |
Cunningham, Maryanne |
TN DHS — TPOPS (Clear Wrap) FY14 |
Tennessee Department of Human Services |
HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families |
$202,687 |
Cunningham, Maryanne |
CSSEP Knox 6th District FY13 |
Tennessee Department of Human Services |
HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families |
$607,082 |
Haslam College of Business |
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Bell, John |
Supply Chain Transparency |
DOD – Air Force – AFIT – Air Force Institute of Technology |
$30,000 |
|
Bruce, Donald |
Families First |
Tennessee Department of Human Services |
$225,000 |
|
Cathey, Amy |
New MBA/MSBA Students for Y-12: Fall 2015 – Summer 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$56,707 |
Cathey, Amy |
New MBA/MSBA Students for Y-12: Fall 2015 – Summer 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$38,711 |
Noon, Charles |
Quality Business Analytics Graduate Students |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
None |
$30,000 |
Other |
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Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$47,478 |
RCI |
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Greene, David |
Economic Analysis of the Effects of the CAFE/GHG Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles on the Distribution of Income in the U.S. |
Energy Foundation |
$40,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$26,832 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Erik Walker ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$31,211 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Carly McKown GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$26,830 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Tong Wu GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,472 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Seong Jin An ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,654 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Andrew Lepore ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Deborah Weighill ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Alex Pawlowski ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$16,454 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Mechanical behavior of materials for transporation and power plants – Senand Microstructure-property relationships in cast aluminum alloys-Roy |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$37,560 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$30,035 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,347 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kun Lou |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$13,124 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Robert Brese |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$13,500 |
|
Wereszczak, Andrew |
High-Pressure-Induced Structural Changes in Silicate Glasses |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$118,273 |
|
UTSI |
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Moeller, Trevor |
ACE Booster Phase II |
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC |
$59,999 |
|
Moeller, Trevor |
Medium-scale Cryotank Testing Support |
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC |
DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
$20,000 |
Moeller, Trevor |
Senior Design Projects with AEDC |
DOD – AEDC/FMF |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$20,000 |
- Awards that were excluded in this list:
- Awards with negative or zero award amount
- The salary payments for Joint Appointment like Governor’s Chairs, distinguished scientists, and Joint Faculty
- Restricted awards (awards with restircted flag checked)
- Format for Investigator column: All based on investigator home department except ‘Campus Centers and Institutes’.
Campus Centers and Institutes column : {award admin center_institute / Investigator_home_college_school}. - Format for Sponsor column : {direct sponsor / prime sponsor} if there is a prime sponsor
- Award data was pulled based on Award Notice Date (data entry date).
- Data was pulled on 12/16/2015
- Sponsor Name might be changed at a later time because the official name has not yet been setup in the system as of December 16, 2015