Awards for November 2015

UTK Awards (11/1/15 – 11/30/15)*

Investigator

Title

Sponsor

Award

College of Arts & Sciences

Alexandre-Jouline, Gladys

Beneficial Plant-Bacterial Interactions

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$41,265

Allison, David

Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$30,460

Angst, Michael

Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of Keller Bend (Fort Loudon Reservoir Tennessee River Mile 624.5R), Knox County, Tennessee

GMSO Enterprises, Inc.

$18,676

Cyr, Howard

Geomorphological and Geoarchaeological Analysis of Sediment Cores for he Decatur Toll Road Project, Limestone County, Alabama

Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama (BOT UA)

$20,763

Dolislager, Fredrick; Gross, Louis; Galloway, Leslie; Stewart, Debra

FY2015&2016 RISK INTEGRATION TECHNICAL SUPPORT

DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC

$20,771

Feigerle, Charles

Synthesis of Novel Catalysis

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,186

Feigerle, Charles

Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-induced Evolution of Materials for Energy

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$133,409

Long, Brian

Redox-Switchable Coordination Catalysis: An Advanced Tool for Catalyst Control and Tailored Polyolefin Synthesis [7.3 Polymer Chemistry: Young Investigators Program]

DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office

$50,000

Matheny, Patrick

Symbiotic ectomycorrhizal fungi in temperate South America – macroecology and evolutionary history from community to landscape scale

University of Florida (UF)

$34,270

McKay, Larry

Paleoflood Field Trip and Workshop

Electric Power Research Institute

$33,615

Mezzacappa, Anthony

New Joint Faculty Appointment

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$170,080

Moersch, Jeffrey

Assessment of subsurface hydrogen content and geochemical anomalies using the Mars Science Laboratory Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons Experiment

NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory

$42,443

Pan, Chongle

High Performance Bioinformatics Workflow for Integrative “-omics” Data Analytics

DOD – Navy – NRL – Naval Research Laboratory

$254,702

Shaw, Shih-Lung

Transportation Research Support – Phase II

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$10,248

Vonarnim, Albrecht

Chen Qian GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$16,000

Vonarnim, Albrecht

Graduate Research – Sanjeev Dahal (Ussery lab)

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$500

Weitering, Harm

Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,000

Weitering, Harm

Electronic Complexity in Epitaxial Rutile Heterostructures

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$15,886

Weitering, Harm

Theoretical Investigation of electronic and structural properties of two-dimensional semiconductors

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$7,508

Haslam College of Business

Fox, William; Lemon, Tammy; Carruthers, Celeste

Maintain the Tennessee Longitudinal Data System

Tennessee Department of Education

$34,776

Fox, William; Lemon, Tammy; Carruthers, Celeste; Kessler, Lawrence; Harris, Matthew

Tennessee Workforce Data Quality Initiative

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

$813,465

Zhou, Wenjun

Quantifying Uniqueness and Importance of Skills for Job Titles

CareerBuilder

$5,200

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences

Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth

Development of a Mobile Food Choice Laboratory

Duke University (DU)

$30,000

Ehrlich, Samantha

Physical Activity in Pregnancy for Intergenerational Obesity Prevention

HHS – NIH – NIDDK – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

$148,159

Erwin, Paul

PPHF 2014 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases (ELC) – Building and Strengthening Epidemiology, Laboratory and Health Information Systems Capacity in State and Local Health Departments financed solely or in part by PPHF 2014

University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture

$25,750

Erwin, Paul; Meschke, Laurie; Ehrlich, Samantha

Population Health Improvement Plans

Tennessee Department of Health

$20,000

Kolvitz, Marcia

Postsecondary Education Center for Individuals who are Deaf

California State University, Northridge (CSUN)

$286,976

Stolz, Heidi

Tennessee Dad: Enhancing Father Engagement with Home Visiting Services

Tennessee Department of Health

$607,500

College of Engineering

Babu, Sudarsanam

Fundamental Understanding of Welds Made by Very High Power Ultrasonic Additive Manufacturing

Ohio State University (OSU)

$50,000

Babu, Sudarsanam

Alloy Design Rules of Additive Manufacturing

DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory

$135,000

Babu, Sudarsanam

Additive Manufacturing of Aluminum-alloys for HFIR application.

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$50,000

Babu, Sudarsanam; Hamel, William

Nuclear Materials Engineering Graduate Assistantship

DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS)

$220,000

Choo, Hahn

High-Performance Magnesium Alloys by Efficient Vapor Phase Processing

Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc

$148,027

Clarke, David

Support to DOE Project-Shared Freight Transportation and Energy Commodities

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$4,736

Cole, Gregory; Gregor, Jens

IRNC: AMI: The InSight Advanced Performance Measurement System

US – NSF – National Science Foundation

$411,859

Counce, Robert

Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$24,014

Dalhaimer, Paul

Elucidating the effects of patient weight and metabolic state on circulating nanoparticle efficacy

HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

$316,817

Dongarra, Jack

PAPI for Aurora

Intel Corporation

$56,000

Dunne, William; Irick, David; Costinett, Daniel; Jin, Mingzhou; Kobza, John; Liaw, Peter; Miller, Laurence; Walford, Graham; Retherford, Jennifer; Upadhyaya, Belle; Coble, Jamie

Senior Design Projects 2016

Electric Power Research Institute

$27,500

Hayward, Jason

Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 2

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,000

Hayward, Jason

Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 1

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,000

Hazen, Terry

Deep Sea Basin Microbiology

BP America

$40,000

Hazen, Terry

ENIGMA subcontract

DOE – SC – LBL – Lawrence Berkely National Lab – University of California

$91,000

Huang, Baoshan; Dong, Qiao

Implementation and Improvement of Pavement & Asset Management Systems in Tennessee

Tennessee Department of Transportation

$112,672

Liu, Yilu

Supporting ORNL in Grid Modeling and Measurement Technology

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$250,000

Liu, Yilu

Demonstration of Wide-area Oscillation Damping Control Scheme Using Measurement Based Transfer Function Model on CURENT Hardware Testbed

Electric Power Research Institute

$10,000

Nguyen, Ke

Impact of Lube-Oil Contaminants on the Performance of Three-Way Catalysts (TWCs) and Cu-zeolite SCR Catalysts

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$30,516

Paddison, Stephen

Determination of Fundamental Molecular Aspects of Proton Transfer Systems Consisting of PBI, PFSA, and Water

University of Montpellier

$16,925

Qi, Hairong; Gao, Wei

University–Industry–National Laboratory Partnership to Improve Building Efficiency by Equipment Health Monitoring with Virtual Intelligent Sensing

DOE – SC – ORNL – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$60,000

Rack, Philip

LSU Subcontract to UT Physics forPortion of DOE SISGR Project

Louisiana State University (LSU)

$65,000

Riedinger, Leo; Hines, J; Pevey, Ronald

Moderator Demonstration Facility

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$42,659

Rose, Garrett

Deep Learning approach on HPC, Neumorphic, and Quantum Computing

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$22,000

Ruggles, Arthur

HFIR Fuel Cooling COMSOL Modeling of Fuel Defects for Current Fuel Form

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$50,000

Sarles, Stephen

Autonomic Biomolecular Materials for Sensing, Actuation, and Energy Conversion

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech)

$175,000

Sun, Jinyuan; Li, Husheng

InvisibleSensing: Security Through Invisibility for Dynamically Changing Wireless Sensor Networks

DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office

$60,000

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

Vaidya, Uday

Governor

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$125,000

Zinkle, Steven

Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$12,000

College of Nursing

Mixer, Sandra

Community Partnership for End-of-Life Care in Rural Appalachia

University of Tennessee Foundation

$45,000

College of Social Work

Patterson, David

2015-2016 Homeless Grant

City of Knoxville Community Development Division

$15,000

Patterson, David; Higginbotham, Lisa

Catholic Charities Matching Funds FY15-16 for Knox HUD/HMIS

Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc.

$1,000

UTSI

Davenport, Joel

PRF GE Research Support

Aerospace Testing Alliance

$4,000

Campus Centers and Institutes

Crosby, Lonnie

Beste Catalysis and Electron Transport

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$50,471

Crosby, Lonnie

Analysis & Understanding of Large Volumes of Structured & Unstructured Data-C. Stahl

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$17,902

Hall, Howard

UTK Support to the Partnership for Nuclear Security 2015

DOS – US Department of State

$772,536

Loeffler, Frank

Identification of Microbes and Pathways for Enhanced Carbon Tetrachloride and Chloroform Biorem

Dupont/Pioneer

$149,999

Riedinger, Leo

Beth Papanek ESE Bredesen Centr GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,533

Riedinger, Leo

Keith Britt ESE GRA Bredesen Center

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$36,283

Riedinger, Leo

Patrick Caveney ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$12,916

Riedinger, Leo

William McClintic ESE Bredesen Center

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$5,911

Riedinger, Leo

Kristian Myhre ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$40,717

Riedinger, Leo

Emilio Ramirez ESE student Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$39,101

Riedinger, Leo

Tracey Wellington Bredesen Center ESE GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$1,701

Riedinger, Leo

Peter Shankles ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$13,562

Riedinger, Leo

Alex Pawlowski ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$20,065

Riedinger, Leo

ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$6,669

Riedinger, Leo

Riddhi Shah ESE Bredesen Center GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$31,664

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE Eric Muckley GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$13,192

Riedinger, Leo

Bredesen Center ESE Justin Knowles GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$20,000

Riedinger, Leo

Elizabeth Norred, Bredesen Center ESE GRA

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$13,406

Ripp, Steven; Hyatt, Philip

BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II

DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory

$22,291

Other

Hodges, Carolyn

Fulbright-HAys Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad

ED – US Dept. of Education

$37,792