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 removed while data is amended.)
UTK Awards (11/1/16 – 11/30/16)* |
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Investigator |
Title |
Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
College of Architecture & Interior Design |
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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 |
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College of Arts & Sciences |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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UT Space Institute |
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Moeller, Trevor |
Study and Evaluate the Feasibility for Model Mounted Miniature Optical Suite in 16T Wind Tunnels |
DOD – AEDC/FMF |
$50,000 |
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Other |
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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:
- Awards with negative award amount
- 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.