The following awards were granted in November 2017. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Data available in accessible Excel spreadsheet: Awards for November 2017
Award Admin School |
Lead PI |
Project Title |
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
| College of Arts & Sciences | Feigerle, Charles | Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $55,065 | |
| Dadmun, Mark | Support of GradStudent for Dr. Mark Dadmun | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $7,500 | ||
| Dolislager, Fredrick | Hosting and Maintenance of an Alaska-Specific Risk-Based Cleanup Levels Calculator | State of Alaska | $60,000 | ||
| Burr, Devon | Characterizing the history of a diverse inverted fluvial landscape: Mapping and Morphometry of the Aeolis Dorsa Region | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $129,071 | ||
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA Punita Manga | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $21,929 | ||
| Feigerle, Charles | Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-induced Evolution of Materials for Energy | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $134,316 | ||
| Cormier, Thomas | ALICE Barrel Tracking Upgrade | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $100,000 | ||
| Perfect, Edmund | Visualization and Quantification of Water Spreading on Fracture Surfaces in Low Matrix Porosity Rocks | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | None | $40,000 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Comparative Genomics bioinformatics and proteomics | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $60,286 | ||
| Dolislager, Fredrick | Risk Integration Technical Suppot for FY17 – FY20 | DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC | $33,143 | ||
| Sokolov, Alexei | Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy of Materials for Energy Storage Applications | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $25,000 | ||
| Maroulas, Vasileios | 3.1 Modeling of Complex Systems: Construction of distributions on complex topological spaces of signals and their application to machine learning and state estimation | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | $149,948 | ||
| Johnston, Steven | Computational Framework for Unbiased Studies of Correlated Electron Systems | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $29,354 | ||
| Perfect, Edmund | Impacts of roots and mycorrhizal hyphae on soil hydraulic properties | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $59,481 | ||
| Angst, Michael | Site Files and Literature Review and Field Visit for a Proposed Solar Array Project in Haywood County, Tennessee | Frazer Environmental Consulting LLC | $3,475 | ||
| Angst, Michael | Continued Archaeological Monitoring of Construction for the Proposed City of Stevenson Municipal Park, Guntersville Reservoir, Jackson County, Alabama | City of Stevenson | $1,954 | ||
| Weitering, Harm | First-principles investigation of low-dimensional heterogeneities in quantum materials | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $43,320 | ||
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA Satterfield | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $3,262 | ||
| Haslam College of Business | Bradley, Randy | Confidential | Intelligent Automation, Inc. | DOD – SEC – MDA – Missile Defense Agency | $30,000 |
| Carruthers, Celeste | Upjohn Institute UT Subaward – Workforce Outcomes Research | W.E. Upjohn for Employment Research | Strada Education Network | $65,000 | |
| College of Communication & Information | Allard, Suzanne | Confidential | University of New Mexico (UNM) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $560,584 |
| Allard, Suzanne | Y12 Communications Staff Services | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | $54,705 | ||
| College of Education, Health, & Human Services | Kronick, Robert | University-Assisted Community School | Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, Inc. | United Way | $100,000 |
| Brewer, Ernest | Pre-College Upward Bound 2017-2022 | ED – US Dept. of Education | $398,231 | ||
| McNeely, Clea | East Tennessee Partners in Prevention | University of Tennessee Foundation | Lalor Foundation | $30,000 | |
| Crouter, Scott | Neighborhood Risk Factors for Falls in the Elderly | University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) | HHS – NIH – National Institutes of Health | $14,538 | |
| Tickle College of Engineering | Parang, Masood | TLSAMP Phase III | Tennessee State University (TSU) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $17,247 |
| Zinkle, Steven | Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $45,528 | ||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Alloy Design Rules of Additive Manufacturing | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $15,000 | ||
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Nuclear Materials Engineering Graduate Assistantship | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | $220,000 | ||
| Glasby, Ryan | A Systematic Characterization of the Structure and Dynamics of Transitional Shock/Boundary Layer Interactions | University of Tennessee – Space Institute | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $32,500 | |
| Wirth, Brian | Fuel Cycle Research and Development Program | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 | ||
| Rose, Garrett | Deep Learning approach on HPC, Neumorphic, and Quantum Computing | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,783 | ||
| Costinett, Daniel | Efficiency improvement and interference reduction of wireless charging system through system integration | Semiconductor Research Corporation | Intel Corporation | $100,000 | |
| Wang, Fei | An Ultra-light Highly Efficient MW Class Cryogenically Cooled Inverter for Future All Electric Aircraft Applications | Boeing | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $200,000 | |
| Liu, Yilu | Testing and Modeling of Bulk System Components Under EMP/GIC | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $25,338 | ||
| Li, Fangxing | 0391A cost and technology study of the HVDC systems | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,985 | ||
| Dongarra, Jack | Distributed Tasking for Exascale | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $309,000 | |
| Dongarra, Jack | EXA-PAPI: The Exascale Performance Programming Interface | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $309,000 | |
| Dongarra, Jack | Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) | DOE – NNSA – LLNL – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $200,000 | |
| Dongarra, Jack | Software for Linear Algebra Transformation at Exascale (SLATE) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $641,162 | |
| Bosilca, George | Open MPI for Exascale (OMPI-X) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $170,980 | |
| DeSmidt, Hans | Boeing NGRT UTenn Subcontract | Boeing | DOD – Army – Department of the Army | $82,144 | |
| Khattak, Asad | Collaborative Sciences Center for Road Safety | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel) | DOT – US Department of Transportation | $418,500 | |
| Qi, Hairong | Confidential | Applied Research Associates, Inc | US – ODNI – IARPA – Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity | $97,501 | |
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Rationalization of Cracking during Laser Powder Bed Additive Manufacturing of Nickel Base Alloys through In-situ Thermal Monitoring and Computational Modeling | Honeywell | $89,552 | ||
| Blalock, Benjamin | Qualified Electronics for Low Temperature Environment | NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $50,000 | |
| Ostrowski, James | Unit Commitment with Combined Cycle Units | Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator, Inc | $50,000 | ||
| Feng, Zhili | LIFT Joining R2-4 – Processing and Properties Database for Refill Friction Stir Spot Welding of Aerospace Materials | American Lightweight Materials Manufacturing Innovation Institute | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $300,000 | |
| Trinh, Cong | ViPaRe (Virulent Pathogen Resistance): A highly adaptable defense system against virulent pathogens | DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency | $249,980 | ||
| Rack, Philip | Rack: Joint Faculty Appointment FY18 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $43,781 | ||
| Langston, Michael | Go! Program: Computational data analytics for analysis and management of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) data | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,862 | ||
| Gregor, Jens | Biometrics Study | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,738 | ||
| Zhang, Zhili | Support ORNL in Low-Temperature Geothermal Energy R&D | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $6,416 | ||
| Maldonado, Guillermo | TCOMP-COMSOL Integration for Transmutation and Heating Analyses of Cf-252 Targets | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $90,562 | ||
| Liaw, Peter | Materials Modeling Tool for Alloy Design to Streamline the Development of High- Temperature, High-Entropy Alloys for Advanced Propulsion Systems | QuesTek Innovations, LLC | DOD – Navy – Department of the Navy | $37,500 | |
| Han, Lee | Freight and Passenger Big Data Analysis – DOT Research Support V | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,015 | ||
| Rose, Garrett | Nanoscale Electronics Development and Fabrication | Research Foundation of State University of New York (SUNY) | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $40,000 | |
| College of Social Work | Cunningham, Maryanne | Baby University Evaluation | Signal Centers, Inc | $51,329 | |
| Dukes, Denzel | Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development | University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) | HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families | $50,503 | |
| Research Centers & Institutes | Glasby, Ryan | A Systematic Characterization of the Structure and Dynamics of Transitional Shock/Boundary Layer Interactions | University of Tennessee – Space Institute | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $25,000 |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Tong Wu GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,325 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Elizabeth Norred, Bredesen Center ESE GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,214 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Armin Geiger GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $21,000 | ||
| Wereszczak, Andrew | High-Pressure-Induced Structural Changes in Silicate Glasses | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | $30,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Ashley Cliff | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $16,000 | ||
| Simpson, Michael | Multimodal Chemical Imaging using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $44,625 | ||
| Glasby, Ryan | Next Generation Navier-Stokes Solver Development and Algorithm Scalability Analysis and Support – III | Engility Corporation | DOD – Department of Defense | $133,333 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bresden Center ESE GRA David Reeves | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | ||
| Hall, Howard | Support to the Nuclear Materials Detection and Characterization Group | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $22,000 | ||
| Zinkle, Steven | Aqueous corrosion of SiC-based materials | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $23,000 | ||
| Hall, Howard | Sub-Saharan Africa | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 | ||
| Hall, Howard | Support Nuclear Materials Detection | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,000 | ||
| Crosby, Lonnie | Big Data Engineering – Arnold FY18 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $88,213 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Ka Hung Lee | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 | ||
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Quan Van Vuong | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 | ||
| Lukosi, Eric | Supporting development of multifunctional materials | Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $148,883 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center DSE GRA Shang Gao | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $23,581 | ||
| Dadmun, Mark | Identifying Optimal Dispersant Aids | Eastman Chemical Co. | $219,979 | ||
| Pfiffner, Susan | Monitoring of Geological CO2 Sequestration and Enhance Oil Recovery using Stable Isotopes and Gas Chemistry | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $22,000 | ||
| UT Space Institute | Vasconcelos da Costa, Jose | Process FemtoSci supplied nanodiamond in laboratory. | International FemtoScience, Inc. | $20,000 | |
| Bond, Ryan | Hypersonic Inlet Unstart: Viscous Effects, Uncertainty Quantification, and Flight Scaling Guidelines | DOD – AEDC/FMF | $19,660 | ||
| Davenport, Joel | GE Fuel Tracer Research | National Aerospace Solutions LLC | $7,001 | ||
| Johnson, Jacqueline | Middle Tennessee Glass MATE | Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation | $6,662 | ||
| Vasconcelos da Costa, Jose | CVD Diamond films | International FemtoScience, Inc. | $10,000 | ||
| Yu, Andrew | Enhancing Enterprise Component Information System for Efficiency, Risk Mitigation, and Defect Prevention in Supply Chain | DOE – NNSA – Sandia National Lab | $70,000 | ||
| Other | Reynolds, Todd | Microbial Imaging & Characterization | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $2,727 | |
| Simpson, Michael | Impact of climate change drivers on virome-microbiome-plant host dynamics in relation to N and C cycling | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $17,736 | ||
| Abel, Steven | CHAUHAN, Gaurav Research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,364 | ||
| Katsaras, John | Heberle Katsaras 10.2017 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $25,000 | ||
| Taylor, Graham | Droplet Interface Bilayers (DIBs) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 | ||
| Bryant, Laura | CHASCo Prevention Mini-Grant | Coalition for Healthy and Safe Campus Communities | Tennessee Dept. of Mental Health and Substance Abuse | $2,000 |