Awards for December 2015

UT Knoxville Awards (12/1/15 – 12/31/15)*

Investigator

Title

Direct Sponsor

Prime Sponsor

Obligated Award Amount

College of Arts & Sciences

Allison, David

Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$22,845

Bhaduri, Budhendra

UT-ORNL-CSED Population Research

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$16,178

Binder, Brad

Structure-Function Analysis of Ethylene Receptors

Dartmouth College

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$67,129

Dadmun, Mark

Characterization and Design of Novel Polymeric Materials for Fused Deposition Modeling

Honeywell Federal Management and Technologies, LLC

$99,999

Dadmun, Mark

Support of GradStudent for Dr. Mark Dadmun

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$7,500

Darby, Erin

‘En-Hazeva at the Cross-Roads: An Iron Age Fort on the Edge of Empire

W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)

US – NEH – National Endowment for the Humanities

$16,800

Eckerd, Adam

Cancer Screening Agent-Based Model

HHS – CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

$14,465

Feigerle, Charles

Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$57,345

Feigerle, Charles

Dynamics in Multi-component Polymeric Materials

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$66,619

Greene, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Greene JFA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$34,192

Grzywacz, Robert

Support for Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics and Applications

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$179,109

Grzywacz, Robert

Support for Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics and Applications

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$215,834

Guo, Hong

Data Analysis and Computational Modeling /Simulations for Engineering CAM Photosynthetic Machinery into Bioenergy Crops

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$70,000

Jouline, Igor

Culturing of the uncultured: reverse genomics and multispecies consortia in oral health and disease

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HHS – NIH – NIDCR – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

$273,510

Kilbey, Sidney

Polymer Nanocomposite Systems for Additive Manufacturing

Honeywell Federal Management and Technologies, LLC

$115,000

MacLean, Calvin

A Lesson Before Dying

US – NEA – National Endowment for the Arts

$20,000

Olsson, Carl

Agrarian Crossings: The Shared Struggle to Remake the U.S. and Mexican Countryside in the Twentieth Century

US – NEH – National Endowment for the Humanities

$50,400

Papenbrock, Thomas

Theoretical Nuclear Structure

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$147,585

Platter, Lucas

Lucas Platter JFA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$8,456

Plaut, Conrad

Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$20,132

Prins, Brandon

Political Reach, State Fragility, and the Incidence of Maritime Piracy: Explaining Piracy and Pirate Organization, 1993-2012

DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research

$75,000

Shefner, Jon

Host the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP-Administrative Office)

Society for the Study of Social Problems

$172,051

Sparer, Tim

Heparan sulfate binding peptides as a novel anti-cytomegalovirus therapeutic platform

University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF)

$15,000

Steadman, Dawnie

Advancement of Rapid DNA Technology on Human Remains

NetBio, Inc.

$48,510

Steadman, Dawnie

Biometric Viability During Human Decomposition

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$47,645

Steiner, Andrew

Andrew Steiner JFA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$8,529

Taylor, Lawrence

SSERVI Environment and Evolution of Exploration Destinations: Science and Engineering synergism -SEEED.

Brown University (BU)

NASA – Headquarters Washington DC

$14,175

Vonarnim, Albrecht

Graduate Research – Sanjeev Dahal (Ussery lab)

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,000

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

Fisher, Leslee

More than Recruiters: The Experiences of African American Female Assistant Coaches in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball

National Collegiate Athletic Association

$6,000

Hodge, Lynn

Connecting Math and STEM Through Modeling

Tennessee Higher Education Commission

$65,808

White, Connie

Tennessee State Personnel Development Grant

Tennessee Department of Education

ED – US Dept. of Education

$2,332,268

College of Engineering

Arel, Itamar

Scalable Power-Efficient Signal Analysis Systems using Hybrid Analog Computation

DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

$1,206,387

Babu, Sudarsanam

Reliability Centered Additive Manufacturing Design Framework

Applied Optimization, Inc.

DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research

$25,163

Bosilca, George

Open SHMEM and UCX

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,000

Clarke, David

Support to DOE Project-Shared Freight Transportation and Energy Commodities

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$9,472

Clarke, David

DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information & Market Research

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$26,387

Clarke, David

DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$17,611

Clarke, David

Fuel Economy Guide

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$38,787

Clarke, David

Fuel Economy Web Site

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$26,709

Clarke, David

Fuel Economy Program, Clean Cities, & Your MPG

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$19,906

Costinett, Daniel

Efficiency improvement and interference reduction of wireless charging system through system integration

Semiconductor Research Corporation

Intel Corporation

$100,000

Counce, Robert

Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,000

Djouadi, Seddik

Design and development of models of electric grid components to support the simulation environment for cyber-physical system security

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$45,000

Dongarra, Jack

Optimizing Linear Algebra for Applications on Intel® Xeon Phi? Coprocessors

Intel Corporation

$185,427

Egami, Takeshi

Neutron Scattering Research Network for Epscor States

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

-$1,070

Everett, Jerry

Judicial Outreach Liaison Program (JOL)

TDOT – Tennessee Highway Safety Office

National Highway Traffic Safety Admin (AS400)

$93,925

Fu, Joshua

Input Data Development for MOVES 2010b

Tennessee Department of Transportation-Division of Planning

DOT – US Department of Transportation

$213,641

Gregor, Jens

Limited view image reconstruction

DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS)

$24,000

Gregor, Jens

Backend Data Model for Supercomputer Health Monitoring and Analysis

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

-$4,619

Gregor, Jens

Reconstruction algorithms for neutron imaging device

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$25,112

Han, Lee

Transportation and Energy Statistics Analysis – DOE Research Support

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$11,458

Han, Lee

Passenger and Freight Transportation Policy Analysis

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,800

Han, Lee

Traffic Queue Prediction and Warning System

Tennessee Department of Transportation

$113,778

Hayward, Jason

Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Human Capital Development Internships

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,443

Hayward, Jason

Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Human Capital Development Internships

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,443

Hayward, Jason

Next Generation Safeguards Initiative Human Capital Development Internships

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,443

Heilbronn, Lawrence

Continuation of Isotope Production at Accelerator and Reactor Facilities

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$41,709

Hu, Bin

Revealing Key Polarization, Spin and Energy Parameters in Controlling Deeper Photovoltaic Processes in Perovskite Solar Cells By Using Unique Magneto-Optic Measurements

DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research

$250,000

Huang, Jian

Visualizing Urban Micro-Climate and Energy Efficiency

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$20,000

Jin, Mingzhou

Life Cycle Assessment for

Boeing

National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining

$74,097

Jin, Mingzhou

Flight Risk Analysis, Validation, and Optimization

Federal Express

$49,542

Khattak, Asad

Highway Safety Manual, Safety Performance Functions (SPF) and Roadway Calibration Factors

Tennessee Department of Transportation

$135,356

Langston, Michael

Data Structures, Algorithms and Tools for Ontological Discovery

Jackson Laboratory

HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

$63,477

Li, Xueping

Interactive Debriefing Application (IDA) for Simulation

University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF)

$15,000

Liaw, Peter

Preliminary Investigation into the Short Crack Behavior of TI-6AL-4V

VEXTEC Corporation

$8,228

Mandrus, David

Correlated and Complex Materials

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$7,730

Materassi, Donatello

CAREER: Design of in-line controllers for continuously operating networks with structural uncertainty

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$83,722

Melcher, Charles

Operating Agreement of the Scintillation Materials Research Center

Siemens

$2,500,000

Nambisan, Shashi

Ground Truthing of Data from Naturalistic Driving Studies and Associated Analysis

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

DOT – FHWA – Federal Highway Administration

$70,392

Papandrew, Alexander

High-Performance Nanocomposite Fuel Cell Electrodes

University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF)

$15,000

Parang, Masood

TLSAMP Phase III

Tennessee State University (TSU)

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$88,000

Rashidi, Abbas

ComCon Summit: Innovative Professional Workshop Series to Enhance Communication Skills Pertinent to Construction Engineering Students

Engineering Information Foundation

-$17,526

Rose, Garrett

Development of a Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (mrDANNA)

DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory

$20,000

Schwartz, John

Engineering Design Procedures and Standard Drawings for Highway Construction Sediment Basins

Tennessee Department of Transportation

$97,003

Sun, Kai

Survey on R&D Needs for Parallel Power System Restoration

Eleon Energy

$30,025

Terpstra, Daniel

A CO-DESIGN APPROACH FOR ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE

Iowa State University (ISU)

DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research

$209,302

Tolbert, Leon

Square Kilometer Array

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,479

Tomsovic, Kevin

Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd

$10,000

Wade, Eric

Augmenting Muscle Activation and Function Following Perinatal Brachial Injury

Thomas Jefferson University

American Physical Therapy Association

$995

Wang, Fei

An Ultra-light Highly Efficient MW Class Cryogenically Cooled Inverter for Future All Electric Aircraft Applications

Boeing

NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$200,000

Wirth, Brian

Modeling Nuclear Fuels Performance: Pellet Clad Interaction

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$54,307

Wirth, Brian

High Fidelity Ion Beam Simulation of High Dose Neutron Irradiation

University of Michigan

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$171,316

Wirth, Brian

A Multiscale Investigation of the Mechanisms Controlling Materials Degradation

DOE – SC – Office of Science

$624,999

Wood, Richard

TerraPower Sodium Fast Reactor Safety Analysis Support

Technology Resource

TerraPower

$42,600

Xu, Donghua

Modeling Hydride Formation in Zirconium

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$60,000

Yan, Jiaqiang

SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING IN CORRELATED MATERIALS: NOVEL PHASES AND PHENOMENA

Ohio State University (OSU)

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$81,949

Zawodzinski, Thomas

Electrolyte Materials and Physical Chemistry for Electrochemical Devices

DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research

$300,000

Haslam College of Business

Degennaro, Ramon

Reading Group on Entrepreneurial Finance Topics

Charles Koch Foundation

$10,000

Other

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$157,626

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$1,326,667

RCI

Crosby, Lonnie

Support to the Comparative Genomics Group

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,000

Crosby, Lonnie

Programming Support for NCCS HPC Operations Infrastructure Team-Simmerman

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$42,613

Crosby, Lonnie

Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment (ICE) – Burova

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,480

Crosby, Lonnie

Soft Hybrid Materials Goswami

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$37,000

Crosby, Lonnie

Analysis & Understanding of Large Volumes of Structured & Unstructured Data-C. Stahl

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$30,116

Crosby, Lonnie

Bennett: LIVV and NEAMS Support and Development

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$19,067

Crosby, Lonnie

Dr. Carrillo research in the area of structure and dynamics of soft matter materials

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$47,219

Glasby, Ryan

Next Generation Navier-Stokes Solver Development and Algorithm Scalability Analysis and Support

High Performance Technologies of Charlotte NC

DOD – Department of Defense

$66,667

Murray, Matthew

Apex Clean Energy Project

Apex Clean Energy

$14,966

Norby, Richard

Experimental Design for Amazon-FACE Experiment

Fundacao Amazonica de Defesa da Biosfera

Inter-American Development Bank

$85,000

Riedinger, Leo

Blake Palles ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

-$4,000

Riedinger, Leo

Blake Palles ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$4,000

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Roisin Langan

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

-$21,118

Riedinger, Leo

Jayde Aufrecht, Bredesen Center ESE GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$4,228

Riedinger, Leo

Travis Lange ESE GRA Bredesen Center

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$9,500

Riedinger, Leo

Anthony Gianfrancesco ESE GRA Bredesen Center

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

-$13,170

Riedinger, Leo

Melissa (Missy) Showers GRA Bredesen Center ESE

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,052

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center DGF Nicholas Dexter GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$29,945

Riedinger, Leo

Deborah Weighill ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$11,537

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE John Izaak Miller GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$52,993

Riedinger, Leo

Jessica Velez GRA, Bredesen Center ESE

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$12,523

Riedinger, Leo

Kyle Sander Bredesen Center ESE

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$21,000

Riedinger, Leo

Stephen Signore ESE Bredesen Center Graduate Research Assistant

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$10,500

Riedinger, Leo

Jeff Beegle ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$34,202

Riedinger, Leo

Elizabeth Norred, Bredesen Center ESE GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$13,405

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Michelle Halsted

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$18,722

Stainback, Joseph

University of Tennessee Support for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP).

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$56,558

UTSI

Davenport, Joel

PRF GE Research Support

Aerospace Testing Alliance

$4,000

Moeller, Trevor

Medium-scale Cryotank Testing Support

Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC

$5,000

Schmisseur, John

Confidential

IQMRI

$157,206

Schmisseur, John

Confidential

DOD – AEDC/FMF

DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory

$400,724

Vakili, Ahmad

Demonstrate an Innovative Balance Damage Protection System

DOD – AEDC/FMF

$51,113

Vakili, Ahmad

Research in UTSI’s High Speed Wind Tunnel

Control Vision, Inc.

DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

$5,000