The following awards were granted in February 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 (2/1/16 – 2/28/16)* |
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Investigator |
Title |
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
College of Architecture & Design |
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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 |
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College of Arts & Sciences |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Kuney, George |
Y-12/UT Law Field Placement Program, 2015 – 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$15,000 |
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College of Nursing |
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Thomas, Sandra |
Jonas Nurse Scholar Program 2016-2018 |
Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence |
$20,000 |
|
College of Social Work |
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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 |
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Haslam College of Business |
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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 |
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Other |
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Al-Wadei, Yusof |
Worksite Wellness Mini-Grant Application |
Knox County – Health Department |
$2,500 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
* Note:
- Awards that were excluded in this list:
- Awards with negative award amount
- The salary payments for Joint Appointment like Governor’s Chairs, distinguished scientists, and Joint Faculty
- Award data was pulled based on Award Effective Date.
- Data was pulled on 10/6/2016
- 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
- Investigator listed is Lead Principal Investigator.