The following awards were granted in January 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 (1/1/16 – 1/31/16)* |
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Investigator |
Title |
Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
College of Arts & Sciences |
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Cyr, Howard |
Geoarchaeological Analysis of Sites 22It725 and 22It276, Isawamba County, Mississippi |
Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research |
$24,207 |
|
Elias, Dwayne |
Development of in-situ Hg Remediation Approaches based on Methylmercury Bioavailability |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) |
HHS – NIH – NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
$40,000 |
Emery, Joshua |
Water and OH on Primitive Bodies: Expanding the Frontier |
Applied Physics Laboratory – Johns Hopkins University (APL JHU) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$29,061 |
Engel, Annette |
Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Functional diversity of chemosymbiosis in lucinid bivalves from coastal biomes |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$1,393 |
|
Fozo, Elizabeth |
Membrane alterations and daptomycin tolerance |
HHS – NIH – NIAID – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
$351,512 |
|
Guidry, Michael |
Neutron Image Modeling |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$17,216 |
|
Hollenbach, Kandace |
Subsistence Analysis of 40MT82, Montgomery, AL |
Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research |
$1,392 |
|
Hwang, Wonjae |
South Korea’s Rise in the Era of Globalization: Power, Economic Development, and Foreign Relations |
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (UWM) |
Academy of Korean Studies |
$17,301 |
Loeffler, Frank |
Towards Predictive Understanding of Nigrogen Flux in Soils |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
-$2,244 |
|
Mannella, Norman |
CAREER: Sub-Picosecond Electron Dynamics in Complex Electron Systems |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$100,000 |
|
Moersch, Jeffrey |
Mineralogy and Aeolian Geology with the Mars Exploration Rover Mission |
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
$15,000 |
Moersch, Jeffrey |
Assessment of subsurface hydrogen content and geochemical anomalies using the Mars Science Laboratory Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons Experiment |
NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
$36,500 |
|
Perfect, Edmund |
Visualization and Quantification of Water Spreading on Fracture Surfaces in Low Matrix Porosity Rocks |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$49,221 |
|
Plaut, Conrad |
Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$17,924 |
|
Roberts, Daniel |
Investigating monolignol transporters using a Xenopus expression system |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,650 |
|
Taylor, Lawrence |
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE OUTREACH : ACTIVITIES IN EASTERN TENNESSEE |
Vanderbilt University (Vandy) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$94,540 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
manesh shah |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$87,837 |
|
Weitering, Harm |
Electronic Complexity in Epitaxial Rutile Heterostructures |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$8,628 |
|
Weitering, Harm |
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Weitering, Harm |
Tuning electronic instabilities in triangular surface lattices via subsurface doping |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$140,663 |
|
College of Engineering |
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Bhat, Gajanan |
Nonwoven Webs by Melt Blown Processing of Lignin Carbon precursors |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,000 |
|
Blache, Klaus |
Computational Facility Complex R&M Analysis-Year2 |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$45,778 |
|
Blalock, Benjamin |
Multi-channel Integrated Spectrum Analyzer (MISA) |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$30,000 |
|
Cate, Matthew |
Fiscal Year 2016 Statewide Survey of Safety Belt and Motorcycle Helmet Usage inTennessee |
TDOT – Tennessee Highway Safety Office |
$166,133 |
|
Coble, Jamie |
Robust Online Monitoring Technology for Recalibration Assessment of Transmitters and Instrumentation |
DOE – PNNL – Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Lab |
$97,000 |
|
Coble, Jamie |
Multivariate analysis to support the deployment of the Multi-Isotope Process Monitor at H-Canyon |
DOE – PNNL – Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Lab |
$25,000 |
|
DeSmidt, Hans |
COMPACT ROTORCRAFT TRANSMISSION: Feasibility Analysis and Configuration Design for Test and Evaluation of a Pericyclic Gearbox for Rotorcraft Power Transmission |
Vertical Lift Consortium |
-$17 |
|
Egami, Takeshi |
Neutron scattering study of disordered materials under pressure |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$43,099 |
|
Egami, Takeshi |
Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$45,000 |
|
Ekici, Kivanc |
Support of the Standard Modular Hydropower Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$2,000 |
|
Everett, Jerry |
Awareness of and Exposure to Media Campaigns in Tennessee |
TDOT – Tennessee Highway Safety Office |
$126,755 |
|
Frankel, Jay |
Development of micro-scale thermocouple and temperature calibration in close correlation with inverse heat conduction model. |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,000 |
|
George, Easo |
Template-Directed Directionally Solidified Eutectic Metamaterials |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research |
-$90,471 |
Gregor, Jens |
Imaging Algorithms for Aviation Security |
Morpho Detection |
$71,618 |
|
Grossbeck, Martin |
Study of Compatibility of Stainless Steel Weld Joints with Liquid Sodium-Potassium Coolants for Fission Surface Power Reactors for Lunar and Space App |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
-$422 |
|
Hayward, Jason |
Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 2 |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,000 |
|
Hayward, Jason |
Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 1 |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,000 |
|
Khattak, Asad |
Assessing the impact of mixed vehicle technologies on the efficiency of traffic coordination systems |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$35,145 |
|
Khattak, Asad |
Green Generates Green |
Tennessee Department of Transportation |
$163,224 |
|
Loeffler, Frank |
Performance Assessment of Past Bioremediation Approaches for Chlorinated Solvent Source Zones |
CB and I Federal Services, LLC |
DOD – Department of Defense |
$42,864 |
Lukosi, Eric |
Y12 Supporting Simulation and Measurement Campaign |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$100,018 |
|
Maldonado, Guillermo |
VVER 1000 Computational Modeling and Benchmark Calculations |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$47,937 |
|
Mench, Matthew |
Redox Flow Battery Durability and Material Study |
WattJoule Corporation |
$50,000 |
|
Morris, James |
Atomistic Study of Metallic Glasses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$35,307 |
|
Ostrowski, James |
Remote Off-Grid Microgrid Design Tool |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$75,986 |
|
Parang, Masood |
TLSAMP Research Conference 2016 |
Tennessee State University (TSU) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$20,000 |
Parker, Lynne |
NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment — Director of CISE’s Information and Intelligent Systems Division |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$274,401 |
|
Penumadu, Dayakar |
NDI System for Quantification of Subsurface Residual Stress in the Laboratory |
Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. |
DOD – Navy – Department of the Navy |
$15,000 |
Richards, Stephen |
Prospectus for a Regional Center in US DOT Region 4 US DOT Strategic Goal Primary Focus: Safety |
DOT – RITA – Research and Innovative Technology |
$861,000 |
|
Sun, Kai |
CAREER: Integrated Research and Education in Nonlinear Modal Decoupling and Control for Resilient Interconnected Power Systems |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$500,000 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
New York Independent Systems Operator |
$10,000 |
|
Trinh, Cong |
CAREER: Design, Construction, and Validation of Modular Chassis Cells for Efficient Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Chemicals |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$99,324 |
|
Truster, Timothy |
Creep-Rupture Modeling Using Crystal Plasticity in WARP3D |
DOE – SC – ANL – Argonne National Lab |
$69,994 |
|
Upadhyaya, Belle |
SENSOR TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT FOR ADVANCED REACTORS |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,212 |
|
Weber, William |
IBML Use for ORNL BES Irradiation Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$17,500 |
|
Webster, Sheila |
Worker Training at DOE facilities |
National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education |
HHS – NIH – NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
$150,000 |
Wirth, Brian |
Coupling fusion plasma boundary and materials surface physics codes to evaluate plasma surface interaction |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$58,752 |
|
Wirth, Brian |
Modeling Plasma Surface Interactions using Xolotl-PSI |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$73,924 |
|
Haslam College of Business |
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Stewart, Joseph |
Air Force Acquisition Improvement Support (FA7014-10-R-0008) – IDIQ |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$4,000 |
|
Stewart, Joseph |
Air Force Acquisition Improvement Support (FA7014-10-R-0008) – IDIQ |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
-$18,139 |
|
College of Social Work |
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Cunningham, Maryanne |
TPO 2015 Regional Survey |
Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission |
$32,540 |
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Other |
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Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$554,165 |
Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$233,375 |
RCI |
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Auxier, John |
Technical Support for LiF Fission Track Devices |
Babcock and Wilcox Technical Services |
$45,546 |
|
Borole, Abhijeet |
Microbial electrolysis and bioprocess investigations |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,968 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Lustre Dynamic Support Development-Mohr |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$2,894 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Aziz Urban Mobility & Energy |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
-$32,431 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Fluids in Nanoporous Matrices |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$51,176 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Developing High Quality Software Components Using the Full Engineering Life Cycle – Oesch |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$132,447 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Lustre Dynamic Support Development-Mohr |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$47,298 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Dr. Carrillo research in the area of structure and dynamics of soft matter materials |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$39,000 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Beste Catalysis and Electron Transport |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$100,942 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Developing and Applying Real-Time Electron and Nuclear Dynamics Approaches – Jakowski |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$113,296 |
|
Egami, Takeshi |
Synthesis of soft matter |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
-$1,220 |
|
Jouline, Igor |
Computational Genomics of Signal Transduction |
HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
$280,803 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Christine Ajinjeru GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$19,460 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center GRA Jennifer Trumbo ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
-$6,306 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Swapnil Desai GRA Bredesen Center ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$27,221 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Mariya Absar ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,355 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Kathleen (Kassie) Hauser Ernst GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,355 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Vidya Kishore Bredesen Center ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$19,167 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Erik Walker ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$28,789 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Travis Lange ESE GRA Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$32,884 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Carly McKown GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,919 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$6,668 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Ishita Ray GRA Bredesen Center ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$27,948 |
|
Stainback, Joseph |
SME support to ORNL PNS programs |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$57,993 |
|
UTSI |
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Moeller, Trevor |
Testing of Two Actuators in Large Chamber at 70K with 25 Conductors |
Square One Systems Design, Inc. |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$4,583 |
Yu, Andrew |
Component Management in Logistics and Supply Chain Systems |
DOE – NNSA – Sandia National Lab |
$40,000 |
|
Zhang, Feng |
Development of next-generation lubricant additives for high-efficiency engines. |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$16,056 |
* 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.