Awards for November 2016 | Office of Research & Engagement

The following awards were granted in November 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.)

UTK Awards (11/1/16 – 11/30/16)*
Investigator	Title	Sponsor	Prime Sponsor	Obligated Award Amount
College of Architecture & Interior Design
Poole, John	Operating funds in support of Philip Enquist’s Governor’s Chair 14-15	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$29,166
College of Arts & Sciences
Angst, Michael	Phase I Archaeological Survey of TVA Property on Walnut Orchard Road, Anderson County, Tennessee	US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority		$4,593
Binder, Brad	Structure-Function Analysis of Ethylene Receptors	Dartmouth College	US – NSF – National Science Foundation	$67,189
Dadmun, Mark	Lignin valorization Concept Paper	University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture	University of California, Riverside (UCR)	$289,195
Dadmun, Mark	Neutron Reflectivity and Grazing Incidence Small Angle Scattering of Multi-Component Thin Films.	Eastman Chemical Co.		$214,433
Dagotto, Elbio	Distinguished Scientist	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$75,512
Efremenko, Yuri	Joint Faculty Yuri Efremenko	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$23,319
Feigerle, Charles	Isotope Separation and Molten Salt Chemistry	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$73,864
Feigerle, Charles	Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$45,000
Feigerle, Charles	Dynamics in Multi-component Polymeric Materials	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$15,000
Goodrich-Blair, Heidi	Regulation and Function of a Mutualistic Bacterial Host Range Specificity Determinant	University of Wisconsin – Madison (UW)	US – NSF – National Science Foundation	$223,554
Greene, Geoffrey	Geoffrey Greene JFA	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$34,741
Hollenbach, Kandace	Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 38CH2048, Charleston County, SC	Brockington and Associates		$4,497
Kah, Linda	MAHLI – Mars HandLens Imager for the Mars Science Laboratory	Malin Space Science Systems	NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory	$216,677
Larese, John	Investigation of thin films using x-ray and neutron scattering techniques	Eastman Chemical Co.		$224,524
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		$25,000
McCanta, Molly	Collaborative Research: Expanding the Tephrochronologic Record of the Northern Lesser Antilles Arc: Rapid Identification of Cryptotephra Using Multiple Methods	US – NSF – National Science Foundation		$56,707
McCracken, Gary	Dispersal from major roosts and preferential nursing in Mexican free-tailed bats	Bat Conservation International		$5,000
Mezzacappa, Anthony	New Joint Faculty Appointment	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$173,351
Moersch, Jeffrey	ASU Subcontract: Spectral Mapping and Thermophysical Characterization of the Martian Surface	Arizona State University (ASU)	NASA – Headquarters Washington DC	$20,000
Moore, Todd	Practicum experience for clinical psychology	University Health Systems, Inc.		-$1,225
Owens, Gina	Dissertation Research Award for Elizabeth Thomas from the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association.	American Psychological Association	None	$1,000
Papenbrock, Thomas	Joint Faculty Thomas Papenbrock (15-16)	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$23,771
Parks, Jerry	Data Analysis and Computational Modeling /Simulations for Engineering	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$122,560
Sepaniak, Michael	MEMS Resonators	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$22,926
Vonarnim, Albrecht	Graduate Research – Sanjeev Dahal (Ussery lab)	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$25,530
Vonarnim, Albrecht	GRA Punita Manga	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$15,000
College of Communication & Information
Allard, Suzanne	Support For Computational Science and Engineering Division-UTBattelle (Nelson)	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$152,320
College of Education, Health, &Human Sciences
Anderson Steeves, Elizabeth	Strategies to Achieve the Proposed Enhanced Retailer Standards for Staple Food Stocking among SNAP-eligible Appalachian Retail Food Stores	North Carolina State University (NCSU)	None	$189,990
Lieberthal, Robert	Examining predictive modeling based approaches to characterizing healthcare fraud	University of Hawaii	Society of Actuaries	$34,000
Zhang, Songning	NULL	Viconic Sporting Inc.	NULL	$38,265
College of Engineering
Babu, Sudarsanam	Development of Novel Functionally Graded Transition Joints for Improving the Creep Strength of Dissimilar Metal Welds in Nuclear Applications	Lehigh University (LU)	DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory	$97,984
Babu, Sudarsanam	Novel Designs for Creep Resistant (Fe-Cr-Al) Ferritic Alloys with Stable Precipitates	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$50,000
Babu, Sudarsanam	Governor’s Chair Appointment	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$5,000
Braiman, Yehuda	Modeling Sensor Array Underwater	DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research		$24,623
Choo, Hahn	High-Performance Magnesium Alloys by Efficient Vapor Phase Processing	Directed Vapor Technologies International, Inc	DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office	$151,996
Costinett, Daniel	Efficiency improvement and interference reduction of wireless charging system through system integration	Semiconductor Research Corporation	Intel Corporation	$100,000
Counce, Robert	Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$60,000
Egami, Takeshi	High-Pressure Materials Development	Geophysical Laboratory	DOE – US Dept. of Energy	$81,303
Gregor, Jens	Reconstruction algorithms for neutron imaging device	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$31,000
Han, Lee	Freight and Passenger Big Data Analysis – DOT Research Support III	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$7,360
Hayward, Jason	Gamma ray imaging experimental support for nuclear safeguards and security applications	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$5,961
Hazen, Terry	Joint Faculty Gov Chair Salary Account	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$12,622
Hu, Anming	Nanobrazing stainless steel containers for breaking the chain-of-contact (BTC) Mars Sample Return Mission	NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory	NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration	$60,000
Huang, Baoshan	Evaluation of Ground Tire Rubber Modified Asphalt for Use in Tennessee Pavements	Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation		$114,995
Liaw, Peter	High-Entropy Alloys	Honda R and D Americas, Inc.	None	$40,000
Liu, Yong	Frequency Response Assessment and Improvement of Three Major North American Interconnections due to High Penetrations of Photovoltaic Generation	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory	None	$100,001
Lukosi, Eric	Y12 Supporting Simulation and Measurement Campaign	DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS)		$100,820
Mockus, Audris	Develop a hybrid data structure for future ALM development	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$29,499
Paddison, Stephen	Determination of the structural and morphological aspects that govern proton transport in composite membrane systems	University of Montpellier		$66,630
Penumadu, Dayakar	The Effect of Marine Environment on the Compression Behavior and Fatigue Loading of CFVE Sandwich Structures	DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research		$15,000
Pharr, George	Joint Faculty	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$24,342
Rack, Philip	Joint Faculty	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$39,918
Rose, Garrett	Development of a Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (mrDANNA)	DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory		$102,000
Sharma, Adrija	Kinematic Analysis: Posterior Stabilized, Fixed Bearing Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty with the Attune Knee System – Phase 2	DePuy Products Incorporated		$27,563
TerMaath, Stephanie	Probabilistic Multi-Scale Damage Tolerance Modeling of Composite Patches for Naval Aluminum Alloys	DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research		$50,000
Tolbert, Leon	Square Kilometer Array	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$15,608
Townsend, Lawrence	IMPROVED NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION MODELS FOR SPACE RADIATION TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS	NASA – Langley Research Center		$40,000
Vaidya, Uday	Fabrication of Lightweight high performance material samples for lower hull blast mitigation	University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB)	Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)	$5,913
Weber, William	IBML Use for ORNL BES Irradiation Project	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$10,920
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	Evaluation of laminar flaw geometry effects on pressurized thermal shock of reactor pressure vessels	DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory		$25,000
Yan, Jiaqiang	SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING IN CORRELATED MATERIALS: NOVEL PHASES AND PHENOMENA	Ohio State University (OSU)	US – NSF – National Science Foundation	$84,672
Zawodzinski, Thomas	Advanced reversible aqueous air electrode	DOE – US Dept. of Energy	None	$500,000
College of Nursing
Lindley, Lisa	Barriers to Hospice and Palliative Care Utilization among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients Living in Poverty	Dana Faber Cancer Institute	HHS – NIH – NINR – National Institute of Nursing Research	$31,443
College of Social Work
Cunningham, Maryanne	FY 17 Harmony Family Center TRANSform Trauma II Grant Program Evaluation	Harmony Family Center	HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families	$100,000
Cunningham, Maryanne	Chattanooga 2.0 Early Childhood Education (ECE) Initiatives	Signal Centers, Inc		$25,000
Dukes, Denzel	Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development	University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL)	HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families	$147,162
Haslam College of Business
Nelson, Janet	I-Corps South Node	Georgia Tech Research Corporation	US – NSF – National Science Foundation	$139,000
Taylor, Edward	Provide Services Supportive of the Wage & Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration	DOL – US Dept. of Labor		$201,468
Taylor, Edward	Provide Services Supportive of the Wage & Hour Division of the Employment Standards Administration	DOL – US Dept. of Labor		$85,428
Research Centers and Institutes
Bishop, Pamela	Forestry Multicultural Scholar Program (MSP)	University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture – AgResearch	USDA – National Institute of Food and Agriculture	$21,600
Crosby, Lonnie	Fluids in Nanoporous Matrices	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$53,250
Crosby, Lonnie	Beste Catalysis and Electron Transport	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$47,000
Crosby, Lonnie	Visual Analytics Tools – Halsey	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$32,000
Fefferman, Nina	Modeling the Emergence of Leaders in Self-Organizing Social Networks	University of Maryland (UMD)	DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security	$74,840
Glasby, Ryan	Aerodynamic Separation Element Continuum Modeling	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$25,000
Greene, David	Estimating the Impacts of the 2025 Fuel Economy and GHG Standards on the Distribution of Income in the U.S.	Energy Foundation		$60,000
Hall, Howard	Analyses of elemental constituents in post-detonation materials	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$50,680
Hall, Howard	Research into optical methods for on-line measurement of gas-phase metal fluorides in support of the Enrichment Sciences Program	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$20,644
Loeffler, Frank	BioRed: Biomakers and Tools for Reductive Dechlorination Site Assessment, Monitoring and Management	DOD – Army – USACE – Army Corp of Engineers		-$1,642
Peterson, Gregory	XSEDE 2.0: Integrating, Enabling and Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure with Expanding Community Involvement	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	US – NSF – National Science Foundation	$1,719,448
Riedinger, Leo	Mariya Absar ESE Bredesen Center GRA	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$35,106
Riedinger, Leo	Bredesen Center ESE Kathleen (Kassie) Hauser Ernst GRA	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$35,063
Riedinger, Leo	Bredesen Center ESE GRA Michelle Halsted	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$29,607
Riedinger, Leo	Stephen Signore ESE Bredesen Center Graduate Research Assistant	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$24,556
Riedinger, Leo	Erik Walker ESE Bredesen Center GRA	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$20,000
Riedinger, Leo	Bredesen Center ESE GRA Nathan Phillip	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$19,663
Riedinger, Leo	William McClintic ESE Bredesen Center	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$18,110
Riedinger, Leo	Seong Jin An ESE Bredesen Center GRA	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$17,264
Riedinger, Leo	Sudershan Gangrade GRA Bredesen Center ESE	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$11,655
Riedinger, Leo	Bredesen Center ESE GRA Lauren Riley	DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory		$10,000
UT Space Institute
Moeller, Trevor	Study and Evaluate the Feasibility for Model Mounted Miniature Optical Suite in 16T Wind Tunnels	DOD – AEDC/FMF		$50,000
Other
Eighmy, Thomas	Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation	Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp.	DOE – US Dept. of Energy	-$669,268

* Note:

Awards that were excluded in this list:
1. Awards with negative award amount
2. 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 12/9/2016
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.