The following awards were granted in December, 2014. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Spreadsheet: Awards for December 2014
UTK Award (12/01/2014 – 12/31/2014) * |
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| INVESTIGATOR | TITLE | SPONSOR | AWARD |
| College of Arts and Sciences | |||
| Allison, David | Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $53,307 |
| Baudry, Jerome; Smith, Jeremy | Transport across two membranes by AcrAB-TolC | University of Oklahoma/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | $19,033 |
| Chaffin, James | The Correspondence of James K. Polk | National Historical Publications and Records Commission | $47,440 |
| Emery, Joshua | Water and OH on Primitive Bodies: Expanding the Frontier | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/NASA | $28,215 |
| Feigerle, Charles | Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $175,000 |
| Gross, Louis; Stewart, Debra; Dolislager, Fredrick; Galloway, Leslie | UT-Battelle EPA Risk – Environment Assessment and Decision Analysis | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $500,000 |
| Guo, Hong | Data Analysis and Computational Modeling /Simulations for Engineering CAM Photosynthetic Machinery into Bioenergy Crops | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $70,000 |
| Hollenbach, Kandace | Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38BK1850 and 38BK1851, Berkeley County, SC | Brockington and Associates | $6,441 |
| Jenkins, David | All Optical Determination of Isotopic Enrichment of Actinides | DOE – Y-12 Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) | $47,361 |
| Jouline, Igor | Culturing of the uncultured: reverse genomics and multispecies consortia in oral health and disease | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory/National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | $266,815 |
| Karakashian, Ohannes | Stochastic multi-level methods for uncertainty quantification | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,979 |
| Klippel, Walter | Zooarchaeologcail Analysis of Fauna from 38BK1850/1851, Berkley County, SC | Brockington and Associates | $4,848 |
| Serpersu, Engin | VSEE – Serpersu | NSF | $36,555 |
| Shefner, Jon | Host the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP-Administrative Office) | Society for the Study of Social Problems | $164,606 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA stipends ‘Berven’ | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $44,581 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA – Utturkar | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $24,264 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Weili GRA | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,000 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Chen Qian GRA | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $5,000 |
| Weitering, Hanno | Electronic Complexity in Epitaxial Rutile Heterostructures | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,300 |
| Williams, Richard | AS107 Operation and maintenance | Southern Methodist University/Dept. of the Army | $15,250 |
| Ziock, Klaus-Peter | Technical Support for Development of a Crystal Compton Camera | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,544 |
| Haslam College of Business | |||
| Fox, William; Carruthers, Celeste | Tennessee Promise Projections | Tennessee Higher Education Commission | $44,250 |
| College of Communication and Information | |||
| Suttles, Barbara | Support for the ORNL Library | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $84,914 |
| Suttles, Barbara | Support for Biological and Environmental Research Information System (BERIS)- Communications and Management Expert | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $196,786 |
| College of Education, Health and Human Sciences | |||
| Raynor, Hollie | Variety in food choices | Weight Watchers International | $33,439 |
| White, Connie | Tennessee Adult Education Professional Development and Technical Assistance | TN Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development/Dept. of Education | $543,739 |
| White, Connie | TDOE Website Support | TN Dept. of Education-Division of Curriculum & Instruction | $26,000 |
| College of Engineering | |||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Development of Novel Functionally Graded Transition Joints for Improving the Creep Strength of Dissimilar Metal Welds in Nuclear Applications | Lehigh University/DOE- Idaho National Laboratory | $101,932 |
| Braiman, Yehuda | Detection and Characterization of a Weak Signal in Noisy Turbulent Environment | Office Of Naval Research | $29,688 |
| Clarke, David | DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information & Market Research | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,651 |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Web Site | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,447 |
| Coble, Jamie | Robust Online Monitoring Technology for Recalibration Assessment of Transmitters and Instrumentation | Battelle Memorial Institute-Pacific Northwest National Lab | $97,000 |
| Costinett, Daniel | EcoCAR 3 ECE GRA | General Motors Corporation | $20,000 |
| Dongarra, Jack; Bosilca, George | Unified Common Communication Substrate (UCCS) | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 |
| Dongarra, Jack; Luszczek, Piotr | Sparse Iterative Solver Benchmarking and the SparseBenchProject | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $75,000 |
| Dongarra, Jack; Tomov, Stanimire | High-Performance Numerical Libraries with Support for Low-Rank Matrix Computations | High Performance Technologies of Charlotte NC/US General Services Administration | $99,679 |
| Dunne, William; Ostrowski, James; Wade, Eric; Irick, David; Costinett, Daniel; Hines, J; Coble, Jamie; Upadhyaya, Belle; Lundin, Carl | Senior Design Projects 2015 | Electric Power Research Institute | $25,000 |
| Egami, Takeshi | Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,360 |
| Fu, Joshua | Enhancing Air Quality Management and Assessment Capacity Building and Training in China | Energy Foundation-Beijing Office | $50,000 |
| Fu, Joshua | Go! Stochastic Parameterization approach to explore landscape heterogeneity and dynamic landscape variability, CLM-CMIP and Biomass Burning | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $31,428 |
| Gangaware, Timothy; Hanahan, Ruth | Urban Riparian Buffer Handbook | TN Dept. of Agriculture-Division of Forestry | $22,200.0 |
| Han, Lee | Transportation Policy, Planning, and Energy Efficiency Research Support – I | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,460 |
| Hayward, Jason | Graduate student work in nuclear materials detection and characterization – 1 | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,825 |
| Hayward, Jason | Data fusion algorithm development for mobile, dual gamma ray and neutron standoff imager | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,986 |
| Mench, Matthew | Hypervelocity Impact Assessment | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $11,551 |
| Morris, James | Atomistic Study of Metallic Glasses | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 |
| Nguyen, Ke | Impact of Lube-Oil Contaminants on the Performance of Three-Way Catalysts (TWCs) and Cu-zeolite SCR Catalysts | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,147 |
| Penumadu, Dayakar | Multi-Scale penetration mechanics of projectiles through granular media using neutrons and x-rays. | Dept. of Defense | $341,899 |
| Penumadu, Dayakar | The Effects of Sea Water on Composite Facing Sandwich Layups, and of Polymeric Composites for Naval Applications. | Office Of Naval Research/Dept. of the Navy | $40,000 |
| Qi, Hairong; Gao, Wei | UniversityûIndustryûNational Laboratory Partnership to Improve Building Efficiency by Equipment Health Monitoring with Virtual Intelligent Sensing | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory/DOE – Dept. of Energy | $60,000 |
| Ragauskas, Arthur | Development of a Bio-Based, Inexpensive, Noncorrosive, Nonflammable Phenolic Foam for Building Insulation | Fraunhofer USA, Inc./Dept. of Energy | $231,488 |
| Sawhney, Rapinder | ORNL Neptonium-237 Oxide Quality Enhancement | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | Tennessee Valley Authority | $70,000 |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | PJM Interconnection | $15,000 |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | Hitachi America Ltd | $50,000 |
| Wirth, Brian | Evaluating 3-Dimensional Effects of Reactor Pressure Vessel Embrittlement During Pressurized Thermal Shock | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,000 |
| Wirth, Brian | Evaluation of laminar flaw geometry effects on pressurized thermal shock of reactor pressure vessels | DOE- Idaho National Laboratory | $96,496 |
| Zinkle, Steven | Gov Chair Research Support Funds | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 |
| College of Nursing | |||
| Evans, Ginger; Helton, Sally | Prevention and Early Intervention in Family Violence | University of Tennessee Foundation/Verizon Foundation | $20,000 |
| Gunther, Mary; Myers, Carole | Future of Nursing: State Implementation Program | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | $75,000 |
| College of Social Work | |||
| Patterson, David | VOA SSVF Evaluation RENEWAL | Volunteers of America of Kentucky, Inc./Dept. of Veteran Affairs | $4,924 |
| Patterson, David | Salvation Army Matching Funds | Salvation Army | $750 |
| Other | |||
| Millhorn, David; Hopkins, John | Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research, and Education (TN-SCORE) Technology Maturation Projects Supported by LaunchTN Cost-Share | Tennessee Technology Development Corporation | $100,000 |
| Campus Centers and Institutes | |||
| Crosby, Lonnie{JICS/JICS} | Soft Hybrid Materials Goswami | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $146,989 |
| Crosby, Lonnie{JICS/JICS} | Developing and Applying Real-Time Electron and Nuclear Dynamics Approaches – Jakowski | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,304 |
| Crosby, Lonnie{JICS/JICS} | Programming Support for NCCS HPC Operations Infrastructure Team-Simmerman | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,844 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Kalnaus Energy Storage | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,810 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Stahl Applied Data Science | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $16,000 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Dr. Carrillo research in the area of structure and dynamics of soft matter materials | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $118,474 |
| Johnson, Jacqueline{UTSI/UTSI} | Large Area, High Resolution Storage Phosphor Detectors for High Energy (MeV) Digital Radiography | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $70,000 |
| Mcnally, Stephen{JICS/JICS}; Mezzacappa, Anthony{JICS/JICS} | Secure Storage Infrastructure Proof of Concept Collaboration | Mars Inc | $73,736 |
| Riedinger, Leo(Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center) | Keith Britt ESE GRA Bredesen Center | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 |
| Riedinger, Leo(Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center) | Congyi Li Bredesen Center ESE GRA | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,906 |
| Riedinger, Leo(Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center) | Narendran Raghavan ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,621 |
| Riedinger, Leo(Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center) | Blake Palles ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $4,000 |
| Sayler, Gary{CEB/CEB} | Transformative Process for Coupling Solar Energy to Biofuel Production in Yeast for Steady State Bioconversion Reactors | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $126,105 |
| Yu, Andrew{UTSI/UTSI} | Component Management in Logistics and Supply Chain Systems | DOE – Sandia National Lab | $85,000 |
| MultiCollege/Center | |||
| Lariviere, Jacob(Bus); Fu, Joshua(Engr) | Economic Value of Water Infrastructure Resilience: Methodology & Proof of Concept | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Homeland Security | $140,320 |
| Sayler, Gary(CEB); Trinh, Cong(Engr) | BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II | DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $149,033 |
| Wang, Dali(A&S); Wong, Kwai(JICS) | A Pilot Study on An Agent-Based Simulation and Analysis Framework Development using FLAME | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/National Institutes of Health | $9,058 |