The following awards were granted in March 2017. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Spreadsheet: Awards for March 2017
Lead PI |
Project Title |
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obl Award Amnt |
College of Arts and Sciences |
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Angst, Michael |
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey for Proposed Road Improvements at the East Tennessee Progress Center Industrial Park, Hamblen and Jefferson Counties, Tennessee |
US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority |
$4,143 |
|
Angst, Michael |
Phase I Archaeological Survey for Proposed Dock on Nickajack Reservoir, Marion County, Tennessee |
Kenneth and Helen Burton |
$3,000 |
|
Angst, Michael |
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the CEC 35922 McCarty Water Use Facilities, Fort Loudoun Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 639.85R, Knox County, Tennessee |
Bruce Hayes McCarty |
$3,226 |
|
Angst, Michael |
Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed 479 Feet of Stabilization , Fort Loudoun Reservoir, Tennessee River Mile 633R, Knox County, Tennessee. |
Mark and Juliet Hennessey |
$3,435 |
|
Cormier, Thomas |
ALICE Barrel Tracking Upgrade |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$1,400,000 |
|
Cousineau, Marie-Helene |
40397Laser Stripping for High Intensity Proton Beams |
DOE – SC – Office of Science |
$180,000 |
|
Cyr, Howard |
Geoarchaeological Investigations at the Loosa Yokena Site (22WR691), Warren County, Mississippi |
Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research |
$19,996 |
|
Dadmun, Mark |
Support of GradStudent for Dr. Mark Dadmun |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,500 |
|
Dolislager, Fredrick |
FY2015&2016 RISK INTEGRATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT |
DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC |
$2,596 |
|
Dolislager, Fredrick |
FY2015&2016 RISK INTEGRATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT |
DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC |
$7,789 |
|
Emery, Joshua |
Spectral mapping of the moons of Uranus: Why are these surfaces dark, red, and rich in CO2? |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$126,623 |
|
Feigerle, Charles |
Synthesis of Novel Catalysis |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$75,000 |
|
Fomin, Nadia |
Shielding and Experimental Controls for the Nab Experiment |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$50,375 |
|
Gavrilets, Sergey |
Modeling the dynamics of conflict and cooperation within and between multifarious social groups |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$30,000 |
|
Gordon, Kristina |
Community Engagement Project |
Compassion Coalition |
$16,000 |
|
Gross, Louis |
UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$58,000 |
|
Hughes, Karen |
Collaborative Research: A Survey of post-fire Ascomycete and Basidiomycete Fungi in an Eastern Deciduous Forest |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$126,710 |
|
Jonsson, Colleen |
Evolutionary Mechanisms of RNA Virus Host Switching |
HHS – NIH – NIAID – National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
$367,746 |
|
Jouline, Igor |
Culturing of the uncultured: reverse genomics and multispecies consortia in oral health and disease |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
HHS – NIH – NIDCR – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research |
$194,700 |
Kalisz, Susan |
Dissertation Research: Selection, niche breadth and mating system evolution: Are wider niche breadths of selfing species shaped by water limitation? |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$19,630 |
|
Kelly, Nathan |
America’s Inequality Trap: How Economic Inequality Reinforces Itself Through Politics |
Russell Sage Foundation |
$56,193 |
|
Lloyd, Karen |
Biology Meets Subduction: A Collaborative and Multi-disciplinary Deep Carbon Field Initiative |
University of Oxford |
Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation |
$84,620 |
Maroulas, Vasileios |
Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$12,232 |
|
Maroulas, Vasileios |
A distributed sparsity-cognizant framework for dynamic tracking of multiple threats |
University of Texas – Arlington (UTA) |
DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research |
$32,500 |
Maroulas, Vasileios |
The 2017 John Barrett Memorial Lectures: Mathematical Foundations of Data Sciences |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$16,000 |
|
Mikucki, Jill |
Collaborative Research: MIDGE: Minimally Invasive Direct Glacial Exploration of Biogeochemistry, Hydrology and Glaciology of Blood Falls, McMurdo Dry Valleys |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$187,006 |
|
Moersch, Jeffrey |
ASU Subcontract: Spectral Mapping and Thermophysical Characterization of the Martian Surface |
Arizona State University (ASU) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$37,815 |
Morgan, Jana |
Influence and Interests: How Bias in the U.S. Interest System Shapes the Congressional Agenda |
Russell Sage Foundation |
$52,545 |
|
Pan, Chongle |
High Performance Bioinformatics Workflow for Integrative “-omics” Data Analytics |
DOD – Navy – NRL – Naval Research Laboratory |
$2,500 |
|
Sanft, Charles |
Literate Community in Early Imperial China |
American Council of Learned Societies |
$50,000 |
|
Smith, Jeremy |
Porting and Optimization of the General-Purpose Molecular Dynamics Code (GROMACS) on next-generation Intel-based Computers |
Intel Corporation |
$124,900 |
|
Sokolov, Alexei |
New Paradigms in Passive Polymer Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Separation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,000 |
|
Sokolov, Alexei |
PTFE Research |
Electric Power Research Institute |
$100,000 |
|
Taylor, Lawrence |
Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Sciences (CLASS) |
University of Central Florida (UCF) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$17,730 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Comparative Genomics bioinformatics and proteomics |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$71,000 |
|
Haslam College of Business |
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Cathey, Amy |
New MBA Students for Y-12: Fall 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$50,000 |
|
Noon, Charles |
Quality Business Analytics Graduate Students |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$107,230 |
|
College of Education, Health &Human Services |
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Crawford, Lisa |
Tennessee Department of Education Summer Trainings |
Tennessee Department of Education |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$550,000 |
Crawford, Lisa |
Coordinated School Health Events |
Tennessee Department of Education |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$270,759 |
Gibbons, Melinda |
PIPES: Possibilities in Postsecondary Education and Science among rural Appalachian youth |
HHS – NIH – OD – ORIP – Office of Research Infrastructure Program |
$173,287 |
|
Stinger-Barnes, Patricia |
Leveraging Geospatial Technologies to Advance Secondary Teacher Content and Pedagogical Knowledge: 2017 Geospatial Academy |
Tennessee Higher Education Commission |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$56,712 |
Tickle College of Engineering |
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Babu, Sudarsanam |
Next Generation Aerospace Weapon Mount |
State of Tennessee Appropriations |
$80,000 |
|
Bosilca, George |
Open MPI for Exascale (OMPI-X) |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$166,000 |
Clarke, David |
DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$27,632 |
|
Clarke, David |
Fuel Economy Web Site |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$46,315 |
|
Clarke, David |
Fuel Economy Program, Clean Cities, & Your MPG |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$31,046 |
|
Clarke, David |
DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information & Market Research |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$58,817 |
|
Clarke, David |
Fuel Economy Guide |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$54,092 |
|
Clarke, David |
Technical Writer/Editor (2/13/17-2/312/18) Cost Reimbursable Contract |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,674 |
|
Costinett, Daniel |
High Power Fully Integrated DC-DC Converter |
University of Tennessee Foundation |
Texas Instruments (AS400) |
$50,000 |
Costinett, Daniel |
WBG Device Characterization and Application for Converter Design |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$32,609 |
|
Counce, Robert |
Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$72,000 |
|
Denavit, Mark |
Ponding Analysis for Steel Joist Roofs |
Steel Joist Institute |
$10,000 |
|
DeSmidt, Hans |
Boeing NGRT UTenn Subcontract |
Boeing |
DOD – Army – Department of the Army |
$100,000 |
Egami, Takeshi |
Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$24,000 |
|
Gao, Wei |
NSF Student Travel Grant for 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$25,000 |
|
Gregor, Jens |
Video Analytics |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,144 |
|
Han, Lee |
Transportation Energy Statistics Analysis – DOE Research Support II |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,712 |
|
Han, Lee |
Freight and Passenger Big Data Analysis – DOT Research Support III |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$14,642 |
|
Jin, Mingzhou |
D&A Study for Climate Change |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,688 |
|
Jin, Mingzhou |
Modeling Market Penetration of Vehicle Electrification and Automation |
DENSO International America, Inc |
$50,000 |
|
Liu, Yilu |
Sensor Placement Tool Development |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$75,000 |
|
Liu, Yilu |
Wide-area Oscillation Damping Control Scheme Using Measurement Based Transfer Function Model |
Electric Power Research Institute |
$35,000 |
|
Ma, Zhongguo |
Load Test of a FRP Column |
Strongwell Corporation |
$4,630 |
|
Nguyen, Ke |
Impact of Lube Oil Additives on the Performance of TWCs |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$55,932 |
|
Ostrowski, James |
Collaborative Research: Almost Symmetric Integer Programs |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$8,000 |
|
Papanicolaou, Athanasios |
Support of the Standard Modular Hydropower Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Sun, Kai |
PMU-Based Voltage Stability Monitoring and Control |
Global Energy Interconnection Research Institute North America |
$70,351 |
|
Tian, Chao |
Quality-of-Service and Performance Isolation in Data Storage Systems for High Performance Computing |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$33,950 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
Electric Power Research Institute |
$50,000 |
|
Wang, Fei |
DOE Next Generation Electric Machines Program |
General Electric Global Research |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$100,000 |
Wang, Fei |
TOPOLOGY COMPARISON STUDY OF AIRCRAFT ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM |
Alliance High Tech |
Safran Electrical and Power |
$74,928 |
Wang, Fei |
Medium Voltage SiC PV Support |
Cree |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$129,238 |
Webster, Sheila |
Community College Consortium for Health and Safety worker Training at DOE facilities |
National Partnership for Environmental Technology Education |
HHS – NIH – NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
$45,000 |
Wirth, Brian |
Evaluation of laminar flaw geometry effects on pressurized thermal shock of reactor pressure vessels |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$27,896 |
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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 |
$88,052 |
|
Wirth, Brian |
Modeling irradiation creep of FeCrAl alloys |
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC |
$74,571 |
|
Zhang, Zhili |
Support ORNL in Low-Temperature Geothermal Energy R&D |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,751 |
|
Zinkle, Steven |
Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$21,763 |
|
Zinkle, Steven |
Advanced processing of ODS steels |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,974 |
|
College of Social Work |
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Cunningham, Maryanne |
Evaluation of Douglas-Cherokee Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program — Expansion (TOP) |
Douglas Cherokee Economic Authority |
HHS – OASH – Office of Adolescent Health |
$11,457 |
Daugherty, Linda |
Access to Veterinary Care: Barriers, Best Practices, and Public Policy |
Maddie’s Fund |
$391,420 |
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Patterson, David |
2016-2017 City of Knoxville Supplemental ESG Homeless Grant |
City of Knoxville Community Development Division |
HUD – Housing and Urban Development |
$17,500 |
Research Centers & Institutes |
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Auxier, John |
Characterization of the Plasma Chemistry in Nuclear Fireballs |
DOD – SEC – DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
None |
$50,000 |
Brook, Robert |
Michael J Fox Foundation: DWI and Olfaction as a PD Biomarker |
University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) |
Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research |
$52,734 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Mitchell HPC Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,309 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Machine Learning & Data Visualization – Senter |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$12,044 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Visual Analytics Tools – Halsey |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$18,000 |
|
Gavrilets, Sergey |
High-performance computing for agent-based modeling of between-group conflicts |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$51,418 |
|
Gross, Louis |
Mathematics support for spatio-temporal population and population dynamics modeling and simulation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,217 |
|
Huang, Jian |
Optimizing VisIt for Next-Generation Architectures Year 2 |
Intel Corporation |
$153,799 |
|
Loeffler, Frank |
Validation of Advanced Molecular Biological Tools to Monitor Chlorinated Solvent Bioremediation and Estimate cVOC Degradation Rates |
DOD – Army – USACE – Army Corp of Engineers |
$71,771 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Peter Shankles ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$24,498 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Patrick Caveney ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$14,052 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Victoria DiStefano ESE GRA Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$23,469 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Benjamin Mohr GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$14,052 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$14,052 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Tong Wu GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$26,660 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Piet Jones GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$8,500 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Jayde Aufrecht, Bredesen Center ESE GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$4,353 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Biometric Platforms – Fred Heberle |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Nathan Phillip |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,064 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Sudershan Gangrade GRA Bredesen Center ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$6,699 |
|
Ripp, Steven |
BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$244,183 |
|
Sokolov, Alexei |
Dynamics of Associating Polymers: From Association to Segmental and Chain Relaxations |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$274,000 |
|
Whitten, Robert |
XSEDE Technical Audit Service (TAS) Sub from SUNY Buffalo |
University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$43,414 |
Whitten, Robert |
XSEDE Technical Audit Service (TAS) Sub from SUNY Buffalo |
University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$43,414 |
UT Space Institute |
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Moeller, Trevor |
Development of an Innovative System for Cryodeposit Mitigation and Remediation in Radiometric Calibration Chambers |
Physical Sciences Inc. |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$9,600 |
Moeller, Trevor |
Assessment of NASA VF6 Upgrade |
Jacobs Technology |
$3,340 |
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Schmisseur, John |
Confidential |
DOD – AEDC/FMF |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$20,000 |
Other |
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Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$464,911 |
Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$75,000 |
Nobles, Robert |
Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) Program |
Ambassadors for Christ Youth Ministries |
HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families |
$132,606 |
Nobles, Robert |
Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) |
Ambassadors for Christ Youth Ministries |
HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families |
$200,628 |