Awards for October 2015 | Office of Research & Engagement

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)
Investigator	Title	Sponsor	Award
College of Architecture and 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 and Sciences
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
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
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
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
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
Dukes, Denzel; Hemmelgarn, Anthony; Cunningham, Maryanne; Cheatham, Joanna	Runaway and Homeless Youth Training and Technical Assistance Center	National Safe Place	$100,000
UTSI
Yu, Andrew; Simonton, James	Development of Integrated Maintenance Modeling System	DOE – Pantex Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS)	$299,999
Campus Centers and Institutes
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:
1. Awards with negative or zero award amount
2. The salary payments for Joint Appointment like Governor’s Chairs, distinguished scientists, and Joint Faculty
3. 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