The following awards were granted in October, 2015. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Spreadsheet: Awards for October 2015
UTK Award (10/1/15 – 10/31/15) |
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Investigator |
Title |
Sponsor |
Award |
College of Architecture and 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 |
College of Arts and Sciences |
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Angst, Michael |
Archaeological Survey Investigations of Site 40KN221, The Campbell Station Inn/Avery Russell Site, Farragut, Knox County, Tennessee |
Town of Farragut |
$7,458 |
Barnes, Craig |
Purification of Zirconium Tetrachloride (ZrCl4) from UNF Cladding |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$296,313 |
Bartmess, John |
Abstraction and Evaluation of Thermochemical Data for Gas Phase Anions and Anion Clusters, for the NIST Webbook |
DOC – NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology |
$20,386 |
Calhoun, Tessa |
Adaptive Biosystems Imaging |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$47,052 |
Cormier, Thomas; Read, Kenneth; Sorensen, Soren |
ALICE Barrel Tracking Upgrade |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$215,000 |
Cyr, Howard |
Geoarchaeological Deep Testing of the Upper Sand Mountain Gas District’s Gas Line Within the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Guntersville Reservoir in Jackson County, Alabama |
Upper Sand Mountain Gas District |
$23,923 |
Dadmun, Mark |
Combined Temperature and Humidity Control to Tune Latent Fingermark Development by Superglue Fuming |
DOJ – OJP – National Institute Of Justice |
$264,842 |
Greene, Geoffrey |
SNS Accumulator Ring |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$39,873 |
Gross, Louis; Dolislager, Fredrick; Galloway, Leslie; Stewart, Debra |
UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$146,250 |
Jenkins, David |
All Optical Determination of Isotopic Enrichment of Actinides |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$49,668 |
Kenyhercz, Michael; Steadman, Dawnie |
Expanding on Total Body Score with Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) |
DOJ – OJP – National Institute Of Justice |
$250,024 |
Lloyd, Karen |
Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium supplemental funding |
Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
$3,500 |
McCracken, Gary |
The effect of winter emergence and foraging on the susceptibility of Southeastern bats to Pseudogymnoascus destructans: Implications for conservation and management. |
University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture |
$50,525 |
McSween, Harry |
THEMIS Science Team Member for Mars Odyssey Spacecraft |
Arizona State University (ASU) |
$50,000 |
Mengesha, Tadele |
Mathematical Theory of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Models |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$39,021 |
Moersch, Jeffrey |
Next Generation Neutron and Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Planetary Spacecraft |
Arizona State University (ASU) |
$11,194 |
Plaut, Conrad |
Moment methods for transport equations |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,349 |
Shaw, Shih-Lung |
Transportation Research Support |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$1,994 |
Siopsis, George |
Governor’s School for the Sciences and Governor’s School for Engineering |
Tennessee Department of Education |
$368,572 |
Sokolov, Alexei |
New Paradigms in Passive Polymer Membranes for Carbon Dioxide Separation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$45,359 |
Taylor, Lawrence |
Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Sciences (CLASS) |
University of Central Florida (UCF) |
$18,007 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Weili GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$9,000 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Graduate Research – Qian Zhang |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$500 |
Wang, Dali; Wong, Kwai; Gao, Wei |
A Pilot Study on An Agent-Based Simulation and Analysis Framework Development using FLAME |
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
$88,786 |
Williams, Richard |
Operation and Maintenance of CTBTO Auxiliary Seismic Station AS107/TKL |
Southern Methodist University (SMU) |
$11,700 |
Zhao, Bin; Dai, Sheng |
Hybrid Ionic-Nano-Additives for Engine Lubrication to Improve Fuel Efficiency |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$463,510 |
Haslam College of Business |
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Fu, Joshua |
Economic Value of Water Infrastructure Resilience: Methodology & Proof of Concept |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$44,000 |
College of Communication and Information |
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Allard, Suzanne; Tenopir, Carol |
University of New Mexico DataONE subcontract |
University of New Mexico (UNM) |
$532,942 |
Hutchison, Joan |
Facilitating Knowledge Building in Cooperative Learning of Statistics in Teams with Deaf/Hard of Hearing and Hearing Students |
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) |
$60,567 |
Swan, Norman |
2016 US Embassy -Swan- Croatia |
US Embassy – Croatia |
$6,209 |
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences |
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Antun, John |
Culinary Training for Pellissippi State Community College – Associate Degree Program |
Pellissippi State Community College (PSTCC) |
$434,592 |
Brewer, Ernest |
Veterans Upward Bound Program |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$315,916 |
Brewer, Ernest |
Upward Bound Math and Science Program |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$297,034 |
Brewer, Ernest |
Educational Opportunity Center |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$451,653 |
Colby, Sarah |
SNAP & EFNEP Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Center of Excellence |
University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture |
$39,965 |
Dunn, Patrick; Smith, David |
Long-Term Training: Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf |
ED – OSERS – Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services |
$148,443 |
Kohring, Aaron |
LINCS Regional Professional Development Centers Program |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$284,750 |
Wolbers, Kimberly |
National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities, Fellowships |
Salus University |
$143,680 |
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) |
$105,083 |
Babu, Sudarsanam |
Characterization of Flash Processed Steels for Automotive Applications – Technical Support for SFP Works LLC |
SFP Works, LLC |
$120,000 |
Babu, Sudarsanam |
Novel Designs for Creep Resistant (Fe-Cr-Al) Ferritic Alloys with Stable Precipitates |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,000 |
Chen, Chien-Fei |
Collaborative Research: CRISP Type 2: Revolution through Evolution: A Controls Approach to Improve how Society Interacts with Electricity |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$199,954 |
Coble, Jamie |
AF151-167: Prognostic Scheduling |
Global Technology Connection Inc |
$10,001 |
Coble, Jamie |
Process Monitoring to Support Cylinder Counting |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
DeSmidt, Hans |
Modeling Refinements for the Comprehensive Variable-Speed Rotorcraft Propulsion Modeling (CVSRPM) Tool |
Pennsylvania State University (PSU) |
$14,999 |
Dongarra, Jack; Bosilca, George |
Unified Common Communication Substrate (UCCS) |
DOE – SC – ORNL – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$17,000 |
Egami, Takeshi |
Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$50,000 |
Frymier, Paul; Brothers, Ernest |
Graduate Assistance in the Area of Need: A Teaching and Research Program for Creating Advanced Materials Experts at the University of Tennessee |
ED – US Dept. of Education |
$196,852 |
Gangaware, Timothy |
Knox County MOU and Work Orders – Adopt-A-Watershed |
Knox County |
$83,950 |
Han, Lee |
Passenger and Freight Transportation Policy Analysis |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,972 |
Hayward, Jason |
Alternative Detector System to Replace He-3 Detectors for Neutron Sciences |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$36,857 |
Hayward, Jason |
Imaging a Dry Storage Cask with Cosmic Ray Muons |
Oregon State University |
$79,168 |
Hayward, Jason; Qi, Hairong |
Investigation of DEtectors, Algorithms, and Systems for Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection (IDEAS for WIND) |
DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security |
$349,999 |
Hazen, Terry |
Administrative Support for East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition |
East Tennessee Clean Fuels Coalition |
$43,939 |
He, Qiang |
Baseline Studies of Indicator Organisms and Pathogenic Organisms |
Ensafe Inc |
$206,156 |
Irick, David |
EcoCAR2 ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT FELLOWSHIP |
American Society for Engineering Education |
$40,000 |
Khomami, Bamin |
VO2 Nanoparticle Nearfield Characterization |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,069 |
Komistek, Richard; Hamel, William |
In vivo determination of THA kinematics and sound for normal, diseased and implanted hips |
DePuy Synthes |
$298,056 |
Li, Fangxing |
Management and Optimization of VAR under Future Transmission Infrastructure and High-penetration Renewable Generations |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$50,000 |
Li, Husheng |
CPS: Breakthrough: An Entropy Framework for Communications and Dynamics Interdependancy in Cyber Physical Systems: Analysis, Design and Implementation |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$395,432 |
Li, Husheng |
NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Network Economics for SecondarySpectrum Ecosystem |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$227,524 |
Li, Husheng |
NeTS: Small: Towards Efficient and Reliable CommunicationInfrastructure for Network Controlled Cyber Physical Systems withApplication in Smart Grids |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$300,000 |
Mandrus, David |
Correlated and Complex Materials |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$19,410 |
Meek, Thomas |
Urania-based Direct Conversion Neutron Detectors |
DOD – SEC – DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
$261,851 |
Rack, Philip |
Self and Directed Assembly of Metal Nanoparticles and Correlation of their Plasmonic Behavior |
University of Notre Dame |
$37,460 |
Rack, Philip |
CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Cyber-physical digital microfluidics based on active matrix electrowetting technology: software-programmable high-density pixel arrays |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$299,999 |
Rack, Philip; Srijanto, Bernadeta |
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$28,000 |
Rawn, Claudia; Barashev, Alexander |
Computational Materials Science Investigation of the Effects of Nuclear Irradiation on Structural Materials |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$12,690 |
Sun, Jinyuan; Li, Husheng |
InvisibleSensing: Security Through Invisibility for Dynamically Changing Wireless Sensor Networks |
DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office |
$28,000 |
TerMaath, Stephanie |
LS-Dyna analysis support |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$2,041 |
Tolbert, Leon |
Microgrid Control and Protection |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$57,975 |
Tomsovic, Kevin |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
Electric Power Research Institute |
$40,000 |
Tomsovic, Kevin |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority |
$50,000 |
Tomsovic, Kevin |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$50,000 |
Tomsovic, Kevin; Liu, Yilu; Wang, Fei; Tolbert, Leon; Li, Fangxing |
Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
ISO New England |
$10,000 |
Tomsovic, Kevin; Liu, Yilu; Wang, Fei; Tolbert, Leon; Li, Fangxing |
ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$2,000,000 |
Vaidya, Uday |
Governor |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$75,000 |
Wang, Fei |
Investigation of Advanced Power Module Packaging Technologies |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$43,245 |
Weber, William |
IBML Use for ORNL EDDE EFRC Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$119,200 |
Wirth, Brian |
Modeling irradiation creep of FeCrAl alloys |
Battelle Energy Alliance, LLC |
$120,500 |
Wood, Richard |
Development and Demonstration of a Model Based Assessment Approach for Qualification of Embedded Digital Devices in Nuclear Power Applications |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$336,166 |
Wu, Jie |
Rapid, low-cost, field-deployable diagnostic device for viral infectious diseases in animals |
University of Tennessee – Institute of Agriculture |
$146,945 |
Yan, Jiaqiang |
SPIN-ORBIT COUPLING IN CORRELATED MATERIALS: NOVEL PHASES AND PHENOMENA |
Ohio State University (OSU) |
$83,291 |
Zawodzinski, Thomas |
Anion Exchange Membranes for use in Alkaline Fuel Cells |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$75,000 |
Zhang, Yanwen |
Microstructure Characterization in Ceramic- and Metallic-based Materials |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$21,380 |
Zinkle, Steven |
Radiation Effects on High Thermal Conductivity Fuel Surrogates |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$108,840 |
College of Social Work |
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Dukes, Denzel; Hemmelgarn, Anthony; Cunningham, Maryanne; Cheatham, Joanna |
Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center |
National Safe Place |
$100,000 |
UTSI |
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Yu, Andrew; Simonton, James |
Development of Integrated Maintenance Modeling System |
DOE – Pantex Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) |
$299,999 |
Campus Centers and Institutes |
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Crosby, Lonnie |
Eclipse Integrated Computational Environment (ICE) – Burova |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$2,679 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Fabrication and testing of novel sources of entangled photons |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,504 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Developing and Applying Real-Time Electron and Nuclear Dynamics Approaches – Jakowski |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$45,000 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Theory of Neutron Scattering in Strongly Correlated and Disordered Materials. |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$67,195 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Odbadrakh Coarse Grained Density |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$29,800 |
Crosby, Lonnie |
Mitchell HPC Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$60,870 |
Glasby, Ryan |
Next Generation Navier-Stokes Solver Development and Algorithm Scalability Analysis and Support |
High Performance Technologies of Charlotte NC |
$44,444 |
Peterson, Gregory |
XSEDE: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
$3,203,581 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Victoria DiStefano ESE GRA Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$12,962 |
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center Carly McKown GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,919 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Mariya Absar ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,875 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Kathleen (Kassie) Hauser Ernst GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$7,875 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Marie Kirkegaard GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$6,113 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$8,139 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Jonathon Romero |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,051 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE David Reeves GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,172 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Nathan Phillip |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$19,910 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Kun Lou |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,250 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bresedesen Center ESE Artem Maksov GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$21,563 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$8,582 |
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Adeola Adediran |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$18,600 |
Ripp, Steven; Simpson, Michael; Trinh, Cong; Hyatt, Philip; Smith, Jeremy |
BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$137,170 |
Sayler, Gary; Ripp, Steven; Loeffler, Frank |
MRI: Acquisition of an IVIS Lumina K Series III real-time in vivo-in vitro fluorescent and bioluminescent fast imaging system |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$294,477 |
Stainback, Joseph |
University of Tennessee Graduate Research Assistant Internship |
Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services |
$114,689 |
Sturner, Kelly; Lenhart, Suzanne; Bishop, Pamela |
2016 Blackwell-Tapia Conference and Awards Ceremony |
Sloan (Alfred P.) Foundation |
$26,364 |
* Note:
- Awards that were excluded in this list:
- Awards with negative or zero award amount
- The salary payments for Joint Appointment like Governor’s Chairs, distinguished scientists, and Joint Faculty
- Restricted awards (awards with restircted flag checked)
- Format for Investigator column: All based on investigator home department except ‘Campus Centers and Institutes’.
Campus Centers and Institutes column : {award admin center_institute / Investigator_home_college_school}. - Format for Sponsor column : {direct sponsor / prime sponsor} if there is a prime sponsor
- Award data was pulled based on Award Notice Date (data entry date).
- Data was pulled on 11/12/2015
- Sponsor Name might be changed at a later time because the official name has not yet been setup in the system as of November 12, 2015