Awards for February 2016

UT Knoxville Awards (2/1/16 – 2/28/16)*

Investigator

Title

Direct Sponsor

Prime Sponsor

Obligated Award Amount

College of Architecture & Design

Wilkinson, Jeffrey

University of Tennessee, Knoxville Application: Tennessee State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners Grant for Specific Computer, Laboratory, or Instructional Equipment Needs

Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners

$45,124

College of Arts & Sciences

Alexandre-Jouline, Gladys

Real Time Chemotaxis in Commensal Plant-microbe Associations

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$8,180

Angst, Michael

Status Assessment of Selected Archaeological Sites on Chickamauga Reservoir Between Tennessee River Miles 499.4 and 562.5, Meigs and Rhea Counties, Tennessee

US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority

$14,015

Best, Michael

REU Site: Advanced Materials for Energy and Sensing Applications at the University of Tennessee

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$330,000

Burch-Smith, Tessa

IOS: The link between chloroplast metabolism and plasmodesmata-mediated carbon partitioning

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$200,000

Cartwright, Dustin

Tropical complexes and moduli of curves

DOD – SEC – NSA/CSS – National Security Agency Central Security Service

$16,816

Dadmun, Mark

Support of GradStudent for Dr. Mark Dadmun

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

$37,500

Dadmun, Mark

Scalable Reactive Engineering Processes to Fabricate Robust Polymer Structures by Fused Deposition Modeling

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

$91,054

Dolislager, Fredrick

FY2015&2016 RISK INTEGRATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT

DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC

$5,192

Emery, Joshua

A Search for OH/H2O on Near-Earth Objects and nominally anhydrous Main Belt Asteroids

NASA – Headquarters Washington DC

$126,582

Feigerle, Charles

Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater

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

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$75,000

Freeman, Mark

Working with Parks: New Content for the Park Museum Management Program (PMMP) Web Catalog Web Site Phase II

DOI – NPS – National Park Service – Southeast Region

-$2,892

Gross, Louis

UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses

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

$150,000

Hollenbach, Kandace

Subsistence Analysis of Five Sites in Kemper and Lauderdale Counties, Mississippi

Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research

$2,961

Hollenbach, Kandace

Archaeological Monitoring of Construction of the Knox-Blount Greenway across Cherokee Farm on the University of Tennessee Campus, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.

AMEC

DOT – FHWA – Federal Highway Administration

$3,102

Kamyshkov, Yuri

Elementary Particle Interactions

DOE – SC – Office of Science

$400,000

Katsaras, John

Dynamics of Biologically Relevant Model Membrane Systems

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

$58,521

Loeffler, Frank

MURMoT: Design and Application of Microbial Uranium Reduction Monitoring Tools

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

-$7,403

Mannik, Jaan

CAREER: Understanding robustness of cellular organization in Escherichia coli through nanofabricated environments

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$152,991

Mays, Jimmy

LDRD: Synthesis of Deuterated 6T

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

$11,000

Moersch, Jeffrey

From Habitability to Biosignatures: Changing Planetary Environments and the Fingerprints of Life

SETI Institute

NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration

$30,731

Perfect, Edmund

Visualization and Quantification of Water Spreading on Fracture Surfaces in Low Matrix Porosity Rocks

DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office

$55,018

Phan, Tuoc

The 46th John Barrett Memorial Lectures – Modeling and Analysis of Nonlinear PDE Models in Spatial Ecology

University of Minnesota (U of M)

$5,000

Sepaniak, Michael

ChIMES for Detection of Significant Gas Phases Chemicals

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

$20,000

Shaw, Shih-Lung

Transportation Research Support – Phase II

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

$3,500

Shepardson, Christine

A Memory of Violence: The Radicalization of Religious Difference in the Middle East (431-750 CE)

US – NEH – National Endowment for the Humanities

$50,400

Sokolov, Alexei

Dielectric and Rheological studies of polymerized ionic liquids

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

$50,000

Vonarnim, Albrecht

Safe Tip Project, Matthew Entler – GRA

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

$16,095

Weitering, Harm

Electronic Complexity in Epitaxial Rutile Heterostructures

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

$17,257

Weitering, Harm

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage

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

$19,516

Williams, Richard

Operation and Maintenance of CTBTO Auxiliary Seismic Station AS107/TKL

Southern Methodist University (SMU)

$14,707

Wu, Shellen

Global Frontiers and the Geopolitical Making of Modern China

National Humanities Center

$35,000

College of Communication & Information

Suttles, Barbara

Support for the Neutron Sciences Directorate at ORNL

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

$1,000

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

Gibbons, Melinda

PIPES: Possibilities in Postsecondary Education and Science among rural Appalachian youth

HHS – NIH – OD – ORIP – Office of Research Infrastructure Program

$197,175

Zhang, Songning

Influence of Patient Satisfaction of Total Knee Arthroplasty Patients on Gait Mechanics during Level Walking and Stair Ambulation

International Society of Biomechanics

$2,500

College of Engineering

Babu, Sudarsanam

Development of a Novel Close-Looped Adaptive Welding Quality Control System

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

$40,000

Babu, Sudarsanam

Determine the opportunity/landscape for additive manufacturing and proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell technology

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

$26,291

Benson, Roberto

Effect of Processing Parameters on the Barrier Properties of Polyolefin

DOE – Y12 – BWXT Y-12

-$705

Compton, Brett

Benchtop 3D printing of high-precision structures using reactive polymer feedstocks

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

$49,850

Counce, Robert

Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams

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

$64,849

Davis, Wayne

Equipment Grant 2015

Tennessee Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners

$43,512

Djouadi, Seddik

A VOLTTRON Application for Distributed Sensing and Control of Peak Load Demand

DOE – ORISE – Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

$45,000

Dongarra, Jack

Intel Science and Technology Center for Big Data

University Industry Research Corporation

$100,000

Ekici, Kivanc

Bifurcating Heat Exchanger Efficiency Simulations

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

$31,923

Fathy, Aly

STTR: Metamaterial antennas on ballistic panels for IED detection

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc.

DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research

$15,000

Gangaware, Timothy

FY 2016 Water Resources Research Institute Program

DOI – USGS – US Geological Survey

$92,335

Gao, Yanfei

Creep deformation and fracture and the effects of microstructure in Type-IV weldment failure

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

$43,716

Han, Lee

Freight and Passenger Big Data Analysis – DOT Research Support

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

$11,458

Han, Lee

Transportation and Energy Statistics Analysis – DOE Research Support

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

$3,820

Han, Lee

Freight and Passenger Big Data Analysis – DOT Research Support

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

$3,820

Hayward, Jason

Automated Algorithm Development for Analysis of Radiation Portal Monitor Data

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

$44,637

Hazen, Terry

Using SAFE to Advance Crop Production

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

$93,845

Heilbronn, Lawrence

Nuclear Energy Fellowship/Scholarship Program

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$93,933

Hines, J

Nuclear Analytics Support

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

-$16,014

Hines, J

UTK Interns to support Facility Safety Nuclear Engineering

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

$10,614

Irick, David

Assistance for the Wireless Power Transfer Project

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

$7,265

Jin, Mingzhou

D&A Study for Climate Change

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

$30,608

Li, Husheng

EM-SMART: Electromagnetic Spectrum Monitor, Identification, and Broadcast

Intelligent Automation, Inc.

DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office

$45,207

Liu, Yilu

Spare Transformer Study

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

$200,000

Liu, Yilu

Remote Grid Small Signal Design Tool ORNL

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

$70,000

Liu, Yilu

Various R&D Activities Related with Power System Modeling

DNV GL

$27,000

Liu, Yong

Frequency Response Assessment and Improvement of Three Major North American Interconnections due to High Penetrations of Photovoltaic Generation

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

$40,282

Maldonado, Guillermo

VVER 1000 Computational Modeling and Benchmark Calculations

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

-$3,356

Mandrus, David

Correlated and Complex Materials

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

$32,000

Mandrus, David

Studies of Correlated Electron Materials

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

$21,245

Patel, Maulik

Multiphase Nanocrystalline Ceramic Concept for Nuclear Fuel

University of California, Irvine (UCI)

$75,000

Rawn, Claudia

Computational Materials Science Investigation of the Effects of Nuclear Irradiation on Structural Materials

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

$50,753

Rawn, Claudia

I/UCRC Full Grant: Center for Integrative Materials Joining Science for Energy Applications (CIMJSEA) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (UTK) Site

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$46,820

Rose, Garrett

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

DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory

$58,616

Sawhney, Rapinder

Simulation modeling using Matlab SimEvents

DOE – Y12 – BWXT Y-12

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

-$22,533

Sawhney, Rapinder

Computer Vision based Quality Inspection System for MRE Boxes

DOD – SEC – DLA – Defense Logistics Agency

$28,750

Shu, Xiang

Maintenance Strategies for Open-Graded Friction Course (OGFC) Pavements

Tennessee Department of Transportation

$145,000

Skutnik, Steven

Technical support for reactor physics methods development

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

$19,999

Skutnik, Steven

Technical support of fuel cycle transition analysis using Cyclus

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

$15,187

Tolbert, Leon

Design-Oriented Education and Hands-on Training with WBG Power Electronics for the Next Generation Power Engineering Workforce

DOE – EERE – The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

$405,387

Tomsovic, Kevin

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

ABB

$50,000

Townsend, Lawrence

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Measurement Investigation Science Mission Phase

University of New Hampshire (UNH)

NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center

$45,000

Wang, Fei

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-DENSITY & HIGH EFFICIENCY UNIVERSAL CHARGER BASED ON GALLIUM NITRIDE DEVICES

Boeing

$33,233

Wirth, Brian

Deciphering the role of mixed-material deposition and temperature on lithium-coated PFCs in NSTX-U high-performance plasmas: Collaborative UIUC & UTK Proposal

DOE – SC – Office of Science

$84,843

Wirth, Brian

Evaluation of laminar flaw geometry effects on pressurized thermal shock of reactor pressure vessels

DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory

$102,508

Wirth, Brian

Modeling Nuclear Fuels Performance: Pellet Clad Interaction

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

$32,000

Zhang, Zhili

Understanding Performance and Optimization of Micro-propellers

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

$30,198

Zinkle, Steven

Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research

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

$17,569

College of Law

Kuney, George

Y-12/UT Law Field Placement Program, 2015 – 2016

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

$15,000

College of Nursing

Thomas, Sandra

Jonas Nurse Scholar Program 2016-2018

Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

$20,000

College of Social Work

Cunningham, Maryanne

Project Safe Neighborhoods Program Evaluation Design and Implementation

City of Knoxville

Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs

$67,788

Patterson, David

2016 Biennial Homelessness Study

City of Knoxville Community Development Division

$4,996

Haslam College of Business

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

$32,000

Fu, Joshua

Economic Value of Water Infrastructure Resilience: Methodology & Proof of Concept

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

DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security

$85,000

Noon, Charles

Quality Business Analytics Graduate Students

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

$37,500

Taylor, Edward

Provide Services Supportive of the Wage & Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration

DOL – US Dept. of Labor

$23,625

Other

Al-Wadei, Yusof

Worksite Wellness Mini-Grant Application

Knox County – Health Department

$2,500

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$1,308,893

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$2,784,020

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$128,651

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

$60,140

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$768,901

Eighmy, Thomas

Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.

DOE – US Dept. of Energy

$2,364,224

RCI

Crosby, Lonnie

Fabrication and testing of novel sources of entangled photons

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

$39,000

Glasby, Ryan

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

Engility Corporation

DOD – Department of Defense

$263,332

Glasby, Ryan

Aerodynamic Separation Element Continuum Modeling

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

$31,734

Greene, David

Decomposition Analysis of the Effects of the CAFE/GHG  Standards for Light-Duty Vehicles on the Distribution of Income in the U.S.

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

$24,995

Hall, Howard

UTK Support to the Partnership for Nuclear Security 2015

DOS – US Department of State

$40,000

Huang, Jian

Optimizing VisIt for Next-Generation Architectures Year 2

Intel Corporation

$149,319

Jonsson, Colleen

Collaborative Research: Modeling Immune Dynamics of RNA Viruses In Reservoir and Nonreservoir Species

University of Louisville

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$71,488

Norby, Richard

Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Advancing our fundamental understanding through an improved model-data connection

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$25,000

Philip, Bobby

Development of Scalable Solvers for Current and Emerging Steady-state and Time-dependent Discretizations

University of Wyoming (UW)

NASA – Aeronautics Research Institute

$85,022

Riedinger, Leo

Victoria DiStefano ESE GRA Bredesen Center

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

$12,814

Riedinger, Leo

Narendran Raghavan ESE Bredesen Center GRA

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

$24,863

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE Justin Knowles GRA

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

$4,300

Riedinger, Leo

Akinola Oyedele ESE Bredesen Center GRA

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

$17,289

Riedinger, Leo

Hoi Ho GRA Bredesen Center ESE

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

$20,000

Riedinger, Leo

Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA

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

$12,872

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman

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

$12,208

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kun Lou

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

$7,874

Riedinger, Leo

Stephen Signore ESE Bredesen Center Graduate Research Assistant

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

$9,305

Riedinger, Leo

Andrew Lepore ESE Bredesen Center GRA

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

$22,474

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE Justin Knowles GRA

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

$9,030

Riedinger, Leo

Yunchao Li ESE Bredesen Center GRA

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

$10,000

Ripp, Steven

BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II

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

$137,170

Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana

Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Genetic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Microbial Diversity in Permanently Frozen Aquatic Sediments Over Geological Time.

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$3,841

Wiegand, Krista

Expanding the Issue Correlates of War(ICOW) Dataset

University of North Texas (UNT)

DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research

$8,254