The following awards were granted in January 2018. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below. To download the data used in this report, please see the link following the chart.
Data available in accessible Excel spreadsheet: Awards for January 2018
Award Admin School |
Lead PI |
Project
|
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
| College of Arts & Sciences | McSween, Harry | Participation in DAWN Science Team | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $10,000 |
| Allison, David | Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,231 | ||
| Gavrilets, Sergey | Modeling the dynamics of conflict and cooperation within and between multifarious social groups | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | $36,431 | ||
| Williams, Richard | Confidential | Southern Methodist University (SMU) | DOD – SEC – DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency | $13,769 | |
| Alexandre-Jouline, Gladys | Beneficial Plant-Bacterial Interactions | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,588 | ||
| Sokolov, Alexei | Dielectric and Rheological studies of polymerized ionic liquids | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $29,999 | ||
| Fozo, Elizabeth | Membrane alterations and daptomycin tolerance | HHS – NIH – NIAID – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | $347,747 | ||
| Kilbey, Sidney | High Mobility Printed Semiconductor Devices Using Magnetic Field Processing | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,000 | ||
| Egami, Takeshi | Dynamics of Biologically Relevant Model Membrane Systems | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 | ||
| Plaut, Conrad | Analysis of asymptotic limits of hyperbolic relaxation laws | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,320 | ||
| Smith, Jeremy | Support for Critical Interfaces Science Focus Area: Molecular Mechanisms Governing Mercury Biogeochemical Transformations | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,500 | ||
| Jantz, Lee | Postmortem Interval Estimation from Bone Marrow Lipids | Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) | DOJ – OJP – National Institute Of Justice | $143,674 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA Entler Research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $27,458 | ||
| Cooper, Matthew | UTK Psychology Grad Student Assoc Grant | East Tennessee Foundation | Pat Summitt Foundation | $5,000 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Shah Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $5,000 | ||
| Dagotto, Elbio | Study of multi-orbital Hubbard models for iron-based superconductors and spin-orbit coupled transition metal oxides using the Density Matrix Renormalization Group technique. | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $154,000 | ||
| Cyr, Howard | Phase I Archaeological Survey and Underwater Core Collection for Proposed Dock on Nickajack Reservoir, RLR284919, Marion County, Tennessee | Thomas Lee | $3,775 | ||
| Han, Jun | Effect of Exotic Matter on Thermal States of Transiently Accreting Neutron Stars | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $70,000 | |
| Fitzsimmons, Michael | Use of neutron beams to understand materials physics problems in energy research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $47,808 | ||
| Roy, Sharani | Career: Unraveling Chemical Consequences of Non-adiabatic Energy Transfer at the Gas-Surface Interface | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $399,648 | ||
| Chiles, Katherine | Raced Collaboration in Antebellum America: The Idea of Authorship in African American and in Native American Literatures | US – NEH – National Endowment for the Humanities | None | $50,400 | |
| College of Communication & Information | Allard, Suzanne | Support for the ORNL Library | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,596 | |
| College of Education, Health, & Human Services | Pellegrino, Anthony | Forming School/University Partnerships to Learn & Teach with Primary Sources | Illinois State University (ISU) | US – Legislative – LOC – Library of Congress | $20,000 |
| Tickle College of Engineering | Tomsovic, Kevin | ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $1,333,333 | |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | National Rural Electric Cooperative Association | $10,000 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Egami, Takeshi | Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $55,000 | ||
| Alshibli, Khalid | Collaborative Research: 3D Assessment of contact forces, force chain evolution, and fracture behavior of sand | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $16,000 | ||
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC | $10,000 | ||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Fundamental Understanding of Welds Made by Very High Power Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing | Ohio State University (OSU) | Government of Israel, Ministry of Defense | $30,000 | |
| Weber, William | IBML Use for ORNL EDDE EFRC Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $164,800 | ||
| Hayward, Jason | Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 2 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,000 | ||
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd | $10,000 | ||
| Hazen, Terry | ENIGMA subcontract | DOE – SC – LBL – Lawrence Berkely National Lab – University of California | $50,000 | ||
| Gao, Wei | Adaptive Mobile Networking at the Tactical Edge: A Social-Aware Perspective [Network Science – Communication and Human Networks] | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | $32,029 | ||
| Chvala, Ondrej | Scoping simulations of MSR core physics | Terrestrial Energy, Inc. | $15,000 | ||
| Sun, Kai | Research and Implementation on Adomian Decomposition to Support ORNL Parallel Power System Simulation Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,000 | ||
| Rose, Garrett | Development of a Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (mrDANNA) | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $32,000 | ||
| Papanicolaou, Athanasios | Support of the Standard Modular Hydropower Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,000 | ||
| To, Gary | Evaluation and Validation of Magnetic Local Anomaly Correction Strategy for Inertial Measurement Unit | TechMah, LLC | $63,132 | ||
| Braiman, Yehuda | High power blue diode laser array for underwater applications | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $30,000 | ||
| Braiman, Yehuda | Modeling Sensor Array Underwater | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $30,000 | ||
| Vaidya, Uday | GO PGM: Techno-economical Calculations and Energy Analysis | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $23,150 | ||
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Industrial Partner Agreement | Keysight Technologies | $40,000 | ||
| Tomsovic, Kevin | CURENT Industrial Partner Agreement – Principal Membership | Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North America | $50,000 | ||
| Dongarra, Jack | Distributed Tasking for Exascale | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $309,000 | |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Industrial Partner Agreement – Full Membership in CURENT | Genscape, Inc. | $10,000 | ||
| Nguyen, Ke | Impact of Lube Oil Additives on the Performance of TWCs | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | None | $47,043 | |
| Costinett, Daniel | WBG Device Characterization and Application for Converter Design | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $31,124 | ||
| Lyles, Joseph | Confidential | Raytheon Company | DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency | $38,000 | |
| Wetteland, Christopher | Support Minority Serving Institutions and Partnerships (MSIP) Program’s Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) Education and Outreach Initiatives | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,000 | ||
| Costinett, Daniel | Transportation Electrification | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,700 | ||
| Khomami, Bamin | Nanofabrication of Metal/Semiconductor Nanocomposites for Dissipative Driven Entanglement Generation | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $4,694 | ||
| Clarke, David | Assistance to ORNL NHTS Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,621 | ||
| Zhang, Zhili | Support ORNL in Low-Temperature Geothermal Energy R&D | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,245 | ||
| Wirth, Brian | Plasma Surface Interactions: Predicting the Performance and Impact of Dynamic PFC | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $411,137 | ||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | understanding and optimizing interfacial properties and stresses in optical fibers embedded in a metal matrix using ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,435 | ||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | understanding and optimizing interfacial properties and stresses in optical fibers embedded in a metal matrix using ultrasonic additive manufacturing (UAM) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,435 | ||
| Djouadi, Seddik | Switched Mode Controls for Guaranteeing Resilient Operation of the Smart Grid | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $38,807 | ||
| Maldonado, Guillermo | High-Fidelity and Optimized Fixed-Source Neutron Transport Analysis of Historical Cf-252 Production Program Experiments | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $88,456 | ||
| Fathy, Aly | Metameterial Antennas | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | None | $23,084 | |
| Costinett, Daniel | CAREER: Unified Design Framework for Advanced Power Electronics | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $500,000 | ||
| Komistek, Richard | In Vivo Determination of Knee Kinematics for Subjects Having a Zimmer-Biomet Persona PCR or PS TKA | Zimmer Biomet | $252,581 | ||
| Liu, Yilu | Cyber Security Challenges presented by WAMS in communication and data security | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 | ||
| Li, Fangxing | GO! Smart Grid Transactive Scalable Hybrid Management System | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $35,853 | ||
| Choo, Hahn | Defects detection and characterization by synchrotron x-ray microtomography imaging and conventional testing | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | $135,060 | ||
| Mandrus, David | Mandrus Joint Faculty Agreement 2018-19 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 | ||
| College of Social Work | Mason, Michael | ABCD-USA Consortium: Twin Research Project | Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) | HHS – NIH – NIDA – National Institute on Drug Abuse | $35,227 |
| Research Centers & Institutes | Jouline, Igor | Computational Genomics of Signal Transduction | HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $251,263 | |
| Crosby, Lonnie | Odbadrakh Coarse Grained Density | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $58,030 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Peter Shankles ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,600 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Patrick Caveney ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,053 | ||
| Egami, Takeshi | vLocal Structure by Neutron Diffraction | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $9,763 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Pranab Chowdhury ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Deborah Weighill ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $2,520 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Robert Moseley, ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $840 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,053 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Armin Geiger GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $2,520 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Christine Ajinjeru GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kaitlin Palla | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kun Lou | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kun Lou | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Nathan Phillip | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Melissa (Missy) Showers GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,967 | ||
| Crosby, Lonnie | Developing High Quality Software Components Using the Full Engineering Life Cycle – Oesch | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $49,620 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Ishita Ray GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $58,026 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Sudershan Gangrade GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,000 | ||
| Crosby, Lonnie | Computational study of multicomponent macromolecular & polymer composite materials – Goswami | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $75,000 | ||
| Loeffler, Frank | Understanding the microbially-driven mechanisms behind the rapid responses of soils to short-term disturbance events that result in large nitrous oxide emission pulses | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $11,381 | ||
| Glasby, Ryan | Next Generation Navier-Stokes Solver Development and Algorithm Scalability Analysis and Support – III | Engility Corporation | DOD – Department of Defense | $266,667 | |
| Crosby, Lonnie | Large-Scale Computational Molecular Dynamics | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $80,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bresden Center ESE GRA David Reeves | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $840 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bresden Center ESE GRA David Reeves | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | ||
| Fefferman, Nina | ABR: Melding Mathematical and Theoretical Models of Stress | Tufts University | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $55,348 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Jasmine Kreig GRA, Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $29,215 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Piet Jones | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,470 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Patrick Shower GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $38,979 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Michelle Halsted | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,680 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Katelyn Bennett | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $11,390 | ||
| Rack, Philip | STEM/EELS Characterization of Plasmonic Nanostructures | University of Notre Dame | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $26,318 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center DSE GRA Devanshu Agrawal | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,140 | ||
| Hu, Bin | Integrating Magnetic Properties with Excited States towards New-Generation TADF Light-Emitting and Lasing Materials | Hannam University (HNU) | $73,872 | ||
| Samuel, Tabitha | Create MARS Computational Science Virtual Research Environment (VRE) | Mars Inc | $772,489 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Dhrupad Parikh | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,140 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Anand Parejiya | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,140 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Asa Roy | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $22,361 | ||
| Bishop, Pamela | NRT INFEWS: Computational data science to advance research at the energy-environment nexus | University of Chicago | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $17,806 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA (William) Blake Hawley | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $31,798 | ||
| UT Space Institute | Moeller, Trevor | Tennessee Space Grant Consortium Fellowship Support | Vanderbilt University (Vandy) | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $45,850 |
| Kreth, Phillip | Plenoptic Camera Density Measurement | DOD – AEDC/FMF | $50,000 | ||
| Other | Rack, Philip | Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,469 | |
| Simpson, Michael | Impact of climate change drivers on virome-microbiome-plant host dynamics in relation to N and C cycling | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $79,950 | ||
| Millet, Larry | A Microfluidic Platform for Identifying Radiation/Nuclear Countermeasures for Emergency Situations | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $60,000 | ||
| Simpson, Michael | Andrew Lepore – post-doc | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,275 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Hyatt Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | None | $148,971 | |
| Rack, Philip | HETTICH: CM and HS Research Assistants | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 | ||
| Nobles, Robert | Young Mothers Reentry Program (Project REACH) | Ambassadors for Christ Youth Ministries | DOJ – OJP – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | $10,000 |