Awards for July 2015

UTK Awards (07/01/15 – 07/31/15) *

INVESTIGATOR

TITLE

SPONSOR

AWARD

College of Arts and Sciences

Alexandre-Jouline, Gladys; Morrell-Falvey, Jennifer; Alexiades, Vasilios

Real Time Chemotaxis in Commensal Plant-microbe Associations

NSF

$276,046

Allison, David

Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,231

Burr, Devon

Characterizing the history of a diverse inverted fluvial landscape: Mapping and Morphometry of the Aeolis Dorsa Region

NASA

$111,743

Classen, Aimee

Incorporating rhizosphere interactions and soil physical properties into a soil carbon degradation model through experimenting across ecotypes

Dept. of Energy

$314,702

Dolislager, Fredrick; Galloway, Leslie

Hosting and Maintenance of an Alaska-Specific Risk-Based Cleanup Levels Calculator

State of Alaska

$3,000

Feigerle, Charles

Alternative Plating Processes for Metal Electroplating Based on Ionic Liquids

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$149,134

Feigerle, Charles

UV and Visible Raman Analysis of Uranium Hydride

DOE – Los Alamos National Laboratory

$25,000

Hopko, Derek

Practicum experience for Clinical Psychology

University Health Systems, Inc.

$14,000

Kalisz, Susan

LTREB Renewal: The population dynamics of forest understory invasion; mechanistic experiments with generalist herbivores, natives, and invaders

NSF

$520,383

Kilbey, Sidney

Organization and Interfacial Interactions of Surface-Tethered Layers of Semi-flexible Polymer Chains

NSF

$281,502

Loeffler, Frank; Ritalahti, Kirsti; Hettich, Robert

Advanced Environmental Molecular Diagnostics to Assess, Monitor, and Predict Microbial Activities at Complicated Chlorinated Solvent Sites

DOD – Dept. of the Army

$340,593

MacLean, Calvin; Alley, David; Byrd, David

Open-Captioning Initiative

University of Tennessee Foundation/East Tennessee Foundation

$5,000

MacLean, Calvin; Alley, David; Byrd, David

Of Mice and Men

City of Knoxville

$10,000

Moersch, Jeffrey

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

SETI Institute/NASA

$30,732

Moore, Todd

Practicum experience for Clinical Psychology

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital

$10,000

Moore, Todd; Levy, Jacob

Practicum Experience for Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students

Cherokee Health Systems

$90,000

Moore, Todd; Levy, Jacob

Practicum Experience for Clinical and Counseling Psychology Graduate Students

Knoxville Family Justice Center

$16,000

Perfect, Edmund

Hydraulic conductivity measurements of self-sealing liners for algal cultivation facilities

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$72,060

Plaut, Conrad

Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$6,341

Prins, Brandon

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

DOD – Office Of Naval Research

$50,000

Sepaniak, Michael

Analytical Characterization and Advancement of MEMS Chemical Sensors

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$42,051

Shaw, Shih-Lung

Transportation Research Support

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$3,992

Sokolov, Alexei

Dynamics of Associating Polymers: From Association to Segmental and Chain Relaxations

NSF

$133,000

Vonarnim, Albrecht

GRA – Utturkar

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$24,268

Vonarnim, Albrecht

GRA Punita Manga

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$48,865

Weitering, Harm

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$8,334

Wise, Steven

Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field and Phase Field Crystal Equations with Applications

NSF

$35,000

Haslam College of Business

Fox, William; Lemon, Tammy; Carruthers, Celeste

Maintain the Tennessee Longitudinal Data System

TN Dept. of Education

$750,000

Taylor, Edward

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

Dept. of Labor

$1,089,666

College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Chen, Jui-Chi

Research services pertaining to the Tennessee Welcome Centers

TN Dept. of Tourist Development

$9,500

Kohring, Aaron

Transition & Self Determination Support

TN Dept. of Education

$549,150

Meschke, Laurie

COMPASS: Combating Obesity’s Multiple chronic conditions through Preparation Activities Shared among Students

University of Tennessee – Chattanooga/Health Resources&Service Admin

$39,597

Sarratt, Angela

Project TRiPS: Therapeutic Recreation in Public Schools

TN Dept. of Education

$869,349

Spence, Marsha; Haughton, Betsy; Raynor, Hollie; Kavanagh, Katherine; Fitzhugh, Eugene; Smith, Delores; Fouts, Hillary

Public Health Nutrition Leadership Education and Training for a Healthy MCH Population

HHS – Health Resources and Services Administration

$196,792

Stokes, Jamia

Diversity in Teaching 2015

Tennessee Higher Education Commission

$100,000

College of Engineering

Babu, Sudarsanam

Physics based selection of SLM process parameters to mitigate defects and to control deposit microstructure

Applied Optimization, Inc./NASA

$239,472

Clarke, David

Database Applications

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,968

Clarke, David

The University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign’s proposal for Tier 1 UTC

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/Dept. of Transportation – Research and Innovative Technology

$61,800

Counce, Robert

Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$35,000

Cox, Chris

Administrative Support for East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition

East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition

$40,623

DeSmidt, Hans

Design Evaluation of 2-speed Transmission Systems for Compound Helicopter Main Gearboxes

Vertical Lift Consortium/DOD – Dept. of the Army

$100,000

Egami, Takeshi

Physics of metallic glasses

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,000

Egami, Takeshi

Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$50,000

Egami, Takeshi

Neutron scattering study of disordered materials under confinement

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$20,031

Fathy, Aly

Reconfigurable RF Front-end for Multi-GNSS/Communication SDR Receiver

MaXentric Technologies, LLC/DOD – Dept. of the Air Force

$45,000

Gao, Wei

CRII: NeTS: Exploiting System and Network Dynamics in Mobile Clouds

NSF

$85,944

Han, Lee

Passenger and Freight Transportation Policy Analysis

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,600

Hayward, Jason

Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 2

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$2,722

Hines, J

National Academy for Nuclear Training Fellowship Awards

Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)^*6

$25,000

Irick, David

Design Electrical System for a Lightweight All Electric Vehicle

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$6,087

Laursen, Siris

SusChEM: Mechanistic Studies of Photocatalytic Water-Splitting and CO2Reduction: The control of surface chemical reactivity and its effect on product distribution

NSF

$305,776

Mandrus, David; Yan, Jiaqiang

Building New Spintronic Materials with Layered Chalcogenides

NSF

$277,462

Papanicolaou, Athanasios

IDEA proposal: A Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) Detection System for Assessing Scour Countermeasures and the Stability of Hydraulic Structures.

National Academy of Sciences/Dept. of Transportation – Federal Highway Administration

$50,000

Parker, John; Kim, Ungtae

A Practical Approach for Remediation Performance Assessment and Optimization at DNAPL Sites for Early Identification and Correction of Problems Considering Uncertainty.

DOD – Dept. of the Army

$105,267

Sawhney, Rapinder

ORNL Neptonium-237 Oxide Quality Enhancement

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$54,611

Sawhney, Rapinder

Lean Summer Program 2015-2016

Fundacao para o Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico

$44,850

Sawhney, Rapinder

Lean Summer Program 2015-2016

Madre Consultoria ME Ltda.^*6

$17,250

Sawhney, Rapinder

Lean Summer Program 2015-2016

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Campus Bucaramanga

$3,450

Schwartz, John

Improving the GRSM’s understanding of its natural resources and processes and thereby enhancing protection of the Park’s resources

Dept. of Interior – National Park Service-Great Smoky Mountains National Park

$95,000

Skutnik, Steven

Migration of Used Nuclear Fuel Storage Data to the ORNL Unified Database

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$1,307

Skutnik, Steven

Technical support for reactor physics methods development

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$10,000

Sun, Kai

Research and Implementation on Adomian Decomposition to Support ORNL Parallel Power System Simulation Project

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$59,119

Tomsovic, Kevin

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

Electric Power Research Institute

$50,000

Xu, Donghua

Modeling Hydride Formation in Zirconium

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,000

Zhang, Yanwen

Microstructure Characterization in Ceramic- and Metallic-based Materials

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$16,600

Zinkle, Steven

Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$14,784

Zinkle, Steven

Gov Chair Research Support Funds

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,000

Zinkle, Steven

Advanced Fuel Forms for Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Applications

NASA

$74,000

College of Nursing

Bonom, Julie

Nurse Anesthetist Traineeship Program (NAT)

HHS – Health Resources and Services Administration

$16,665

Gaylord, Nan; Niederhauser, Victoria

Center for Nursing Practice

University of Tennessee Foundation

$238,970

College of Social Work

Cunningham, Maryanne; Cheatham, Joanna

DHS Child Care Assessment Supportive Services Program (STARS) FY16

TN Dept. of Human Services/HHS – Administration for Children and Families

$934,000

Patterson, David

2014-2015 City of Knoxville ESG Proposal

City of Knoxville Community Development Division/Housing & Urban Development

$730

Patterson, David

FY 2015-2016 Knox County CDBG Match

Knox County Community Development Office/Housing & Urban Development

$10,000

Patterson, David

KnoxHMIS Exhibit 2 Renewal 2015-2016

Housing & Urban Development

$132,282

Wodarski, John

The Tennessee Residential Treatment Program for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

HHS – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

$523,304

UTSI

Davenport, Joel

Starpac 3 Valve Correlation Study

Aerospace Testing Alliance

$5,500

Davenport, Joel

NSMS Hot Probe Study

Aerospace Testing Alliance

$5,000

Johnson, Jacqueline

Large Area, High Resolution Storage Phosphor Detectors for High Energy (MeV) Digital Radiography

DOE – BWXT Y-12

$30,000

Moeller, Trevor

12V Vertical Thrust Stand (Breakdown and Delivery) to AEDC

Aerospace Testing Alliance

$5,853

Vasconcelos da Costa, Jose; Terekhov, Alexander

Prototyping of Nanostructures

Ultra Small Fibers, LLC^*6

$50,564

Yu, Andrew

Component Management in Logistics and Supply Chain Systems

DOE – Sandia National Lab

$30,000

Zhang, Feng

Development of next-generation lubricant additives for high-efficiency engines

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$16,475

Campus Centers and Institutes

Crosby, Lonnie {JICS/JICS}

Joel Denny – High Level Intermediate Language Representation

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$173,902

Crosby, Lonnie {JICS/JICS}

Bennett: LIVV and NEAMS Support and Development

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$18,197

Greene, David {Baker Center/Baker Center}

Research and Analysis for Hydrogen Systems and Vehicle Technologies

DOE – Argonne National Lab/Dept. of Energy

$49,039

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Kyle Sander Bredesen Center ESE

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$29,726

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Guinevere Shaw ESE Bredesen Center

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$58,131

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Travis Lange ESE GRA Bredesen Center

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$19,304

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Mallory Ladd ESE GRA Bredesen Center

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$12,043

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Alex Lewis ESE Bredesen Center Graduate Research Assistant

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$49,441

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling and Analysis of High-Heat Flux Water-Cooled Divertor Components

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,695

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Zachary Langford ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,500

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Narendran Raghavan ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$25,600

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center ESE Kathleen (Kassie) Hauser Ernst GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$3,350

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Pranab Chowdhury ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,134

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

William McClintic ESE Bredesen Center

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$10,677

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

GRA Chang Liu Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,500

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Blake Palles ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$7,463

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Jeff Beegle ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$16,633

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$17,125

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center 2015 Summer Interns

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$3,105

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center ESE Christine Ajinjeru GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$8,415

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Vidya Kishore Bredesen Center ESE

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$9,474

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Ryan Daniels

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$21,093

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kaitlin Palla

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$21,468

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

David Garcia Bredesen Center ESE GRA

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$21,468

Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredesen Center}

Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kristine Cabugao

DOE – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$32,570

Other

Alexander, Mark

OUTstanding Seminar

University of Tennessee Foundation/Appalachian Community Fund

$500

Eighmy, Thomas

Kavli BRAIN Coffee Hour

The Kavli Foundation^*6

$10,000

Stewart, Joseph

Air Force Acquisition Improvement Support (FA7014-10-R-0008) – IDIQ

DOD – Dept. of the Air Force

$201,352

MultiCollege/Center

Allard, Suzanne(C&I); Eaker, Christopher(Other)

UT subcontract with the Council on Library and Information Resources grant with the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Council on Library and Information Resources/Institute of Museum & Library-Office of Museum Services

$11,300

Jonsson, Colleen(A&S); Brothers, Ernest(Other); Buchan, Alison(A&S); Gavrilets, Sergey(A&S); Lenhart, Suzanne(A&S)

NIMBioS: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis

NSF

$4,052,200

Lasater, Karen(NUR); Brown, Kathleen(EHHS); Colby, Sarah(EHHS); Fancher, Susan(NUR); Mixer, Sandra(NUR); Morgan, Katherine(NUR); Myers, Carole(NUR); Niederhauser, Victoria(NUR)

Improving Clinical Education for Advanced Practice NURses through Academic-Practice Partnerships (ICE)

HHS – Health Resources and Services Administration

$656,124

Loeffler, Frank(Engr); Campagna, Shawn(A&S); Ritalahti, Kirsti(A&S); Yan, Jun(A&S)

Biogeochemical Controls over Corrinoid Bioavailability to Organohalide-Respiring Chloroflexi

NIH – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

$193,924

Murray, Matthew(Baker Center); Fox, William(BUS); Kessler, Lawrence(BUS)

Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee

TN Dept. of Economic and Community Development

$185,600

Speraw, Susan(NUR); McRae, John(A&D); Schwartz, John(ENGR); Skolits, Gary(EHHS)

Appalachian Community Health and Disaster Readiness: An Interprofessional Practi

HHS – Health Resources and Services Administration

$500,000