The following awards were granted in September, 2014. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Spreadsheet: Awards for September 2014
| UTK Award (09/01/14 – 09/30/14) * | |||
| INVESTIGATOR | TITLE | SPONSOR | AWARD |
| COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | |||
| Byrd, David; Alley, David | A Christmas Carol 2014 | Tennessee Arts Commission | $1,900 |
| Byrd, David; Alley, David | Accessibility Initiative/Artist Support-The Miracle Worker | Tennessee Arts Commission | $5,600 |
| Cyr, Howard | Geoarchaeological Field Consultation and Analysis for Site 1MB510, Mobile County, Alabama. | University of South Alabama | $10,270 |
| Dadmun, Mark | Support of GradStudent for Dr. Mark Dadmun | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,000 |
| Emery, Joshua | OSIRIS-REx | University of Arizona/NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $172,052 |
| Feigerle, Charles | Understanding and Control of Acid Gas-induced Evolution of Materials for Energy | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $137,252 |
| Fitzpatrick, Benjamin | Evaluation of a new mudpuppy species (Necturus sp.) in Tennessee | USDA – Forest Service | $7,000 |
| Freeman, Mark | Work with Parks: Developing the Museum Management Program (PMMP) Web Catalog | US Dept. of Interior – National Park Service | $47,000 |
| Gavrilets, Sergey | Modeling the dynamics of conflict and cooperation within and between multifarious social groups | DOD – Army Research Office | $109,468 |
| Gross, Louis | UT-Batelle EPA Risk – Environment Assessment and Decision Analysis | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $19,744 |
| Guidry, Michael | Neutron Image Modeling | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,166 |
| Hollenbach, Kandace | Preliminary Investigations of Chadwell Gap Coal Company Site at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park | US Dept. of Interior – National Park Service/Cumberland Gap National Historical Park | $3,276 |
| Hopko, Derek | Practicum experience for Clinical Psychology | University Health Systems, Inc. | $14,000 |
| Klippel, Walter | Zooarchaeological Analysis of 1Tu495, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama | University of Alabama | $1,998 |
| Labotka, Theodore | Junior Science and Humanities Symposia | Academy of Applied Science, Inc/DOD – Army Research Office | $14,000 |
| Maroulas, Vasileios | GO! PGM Indices of Bioenergy Sustainability | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $58,593 |
| Mccracken, Gary; Bernard, Riley | Epidemiology of Pseudogymnoascus destructans: Changes in fungal load on active bats throughout winter in the Southeast | Basically Bats | $5,000 |
| Mckinney, Michael | Town Creek Tributary Restoration Project | East Tennessee Quality Growth/Tennessee Valley Authority | $500 |
| Mundorff, Amy | Assessment of Rapid, Robust and Efficient Postmortem DNA Sampling Method for DVI and Missing Persons Identification | US Dept. of Justice – National Institute Of Justice | $187,518 |
| Mundorff, Amy; White, Devin | Combining Multiple Sensing Technologies for Probability Mapping and Remote Detection of Clandestine Gravesites | DOD – Army Research Office | $400,000 |
| Papenbrock, Thomas; Hagen, Gaute | Ab-initio study of inelastic reactions in light and medium size nuclei | US-Israel Binational Science Foundation | $18,300 |
| Podar, Mircea | Enhancing expertise in archaeal taxonomy: Classical and molecular-based monographic research of the Nanoarchaeota | Portland State University/NSF – National Science Foundation | $57,355 |
| Shen, Jian | LSU Subcontract to UT Physics forPortion of DOE SISGR Project | Louisiana State University/DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $30,989 |
| Simberloff, Daniel; Welch, Jessica; Mccracken, Gary | A Synthesis of Research Effort on Bats | Bat Conservation International | $3,700 |
| Small, Pamela | Stop Buruli | UBS Optimus Foundation | $59,567 |
| Steadman, Dawnie; Tallman, Sean | The Evaluation and Refinement of Nonmetric Sex and Ancestry Assessment Methods in Japanese and Thai Individuals | US Dept. of Justice – National Institute Of Justice | $16,490 |
| Szynkiewicz, Anna | Sulfur cycling during the volcanic and climatic evolution of Valles Caldera û A geochemical analogue for sulfate-mineral deposition on Mars | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | $60,482 |
| Vidoli, Giovanna; Mundorff, Amy | Evaluation of the Identitas V1 forensic chip assay to obtain phenotypic and ancestry information from skeletal remains | US Dept. of Justice – National Institute Of Justice | $264,722 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Chen Qian GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,000 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA Ramsunder Iyer | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 |
| Weitering, Hanno | Electronic Complexity in Epitaxial Rutile Heterostructures | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,300 |
| Weitering, Hanno | Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,250 |
| Wise, Steven | Efficient, Adaptive, and Convergent Numerical Methods for Phase Field and Phase Field Crystal Equations with Applications | NSF – National Science Foundation | $35,000 |
| Xue, Ziling | Optical Sensors for the Detection of Polar Species in Aviation Fuels | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | $50,000 |
| Ziock, Klaus-Peter | Technical Support for Development of a Crystal Compton Camera | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,365 |
| COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION | |||
| Bray, Larry; Burton, Mark | Pickwick Lock and Dam report | Tennessee Valley Authority | $50,000 |
| Degennaro, Ramon | Reading Group on Entrepreneurial Finance Topics | Charles Koch Foundation | $8,000 |
| Moore, John; Taylor, Edward | Provide Services Supportive of the Wage and Hour Div. of the Employment Standards Adm. | US Dept. of Labor | $1,026,872 |
| COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION | |||
| Bilal, Dania | Child-friendly SERPs: Towards better understanding of Google search results readability by Children | Google Inc. | $21,763 |
| Mehra, Bharat; Bishop, Bradley | The Role of Rural Public Libraries in Small Business Economic Development in the Appalachian Region: A Case Study of Tennessee | Institute of Museum & Library-Office of Museum Services | $49,557 |
| COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND HUMAN SCIENCES | |||
| Dunn, Patrick; Smith, David | Long-Term Training: Rehabilitation Counselors for the Deaf | US Dept. of Education – Office of Special Education & Rehabilitative Services | $148,492 |
| Hillyer, Sarah; Huffman, Ashleigh | Strong Women. Better World | U.S. Department of State | $1,250,000 |
| Ponder, Beth | LINCS Regional Professional Development Centers Program | US Dept. of Education | $368,130 |
| Skinner, Amy; Smith, David | Rehabilitation Long Term Training: Rehabilitation Counseling | US Dept. of Education | $400,000 |
| Spence, Marsha | Public Health Nutrition Leadership Education and Training for a Healthy MCH Population | DHHS – Health Resources and Services Administration | $20,161 |
| Spence, Marsha | Health Happens! Obesity Prevention in Early Childhood | East Tennessee Children’s Hospital | $103,033 |
| COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | |||
| Abidi, M | RF-IR Data Fusion Phase II | deciBel Research/Missile Defense Agency | $238,360 |
| Alshibli, Khalid | Integrated Experimental-Computational Multiscale Immersed Particle-Continuum Approach to modeling and Simulation of Multiphase Soil Failure Mechanics Under Buried Explosive Loading. | University Of Colorado/Office Of Naval Research | $89,508 |
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Novel Designs for Creep Resistant (Fe-Cr-Al) Ferritic Alloys with Stable Precipitates | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $67,300 |
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Physics-based selection of SLM process parameters to mitigate defects and to control deposit microstructure for Inconel; 718 Project | Applied Optimization, Inc/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | $37,500 |
| Bhat, Gajanan | Microfiber Nonwovens by Meltblowing | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,000 |
| Choo, Hahn | Plastic Anisotropy in a Lean Duplex Stainless Steel: A Neutron Diffraction Study | POSCO | $67,970 |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Web Site | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $49,928 |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Program, Clean Cities, & Your MPG | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,678 |
| Clarke, David | Support to CTA Research Programs | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $33,696 |
| Coble, Jamie | Enhanced Risk Monitors with Integrated Equipment Condition Assessment | DOE – Battelle – Pacific Northwest National Lab | $20,000 |
| Dongarra, Jack | SI2-SSI: Collaborative Research: Sustained Innovation for Linear Algebra Software (SILAS) | NSF – National Science Foundation | $50,000 |
| Dongarra, Jack; Bosilca, George | ARGO: An Exascale Operating System and Runtime | DOE – Argonne National Lab/DOE – Office of Science | $163,785 |
| Donovan, David | Fusion Materials and Technology | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $5,000 |
| Egami, Takeshi; Dmowski, Wojciech | Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 |
| Hall, Howard | UT-Y12 FY13 Collaboration / Institute for Nuclear Security | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $55,000 |
| Hall, Howard | Development and Implementation of Law Enforcement Training Course on Prevention of Chemical Weapons Attacks | U.S. Department of State | $1,452,852 |
| Han, Lee | Transportation Policy, Planning, and Energy Efficiency Research Support – I | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,460 |
| Hathaway, Jon; Schwartz, John | Stormwater Goes Green? Investigating the Benefit and Health of Urban Trees in Green Infrastructure Installations | USDA – Forest Service | $200,322 |
| Hayward, Jason | Alternative Detector System to Replace He-3 Detectors for Neutron Sciences | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,000 |
| Heilbronn, Lawrence | Gamma Spectra Analysis Algorithm Development | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $55,000 |
| Hines, J | National Academy for Nuclear Training Fellowships Awards | Institute Of Nuclear Power Oper | $25,000 |
| Hines, J | Nuclear Analytics Support | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $67,000 |
| Hu, Bin | Introducing Magneto-Optical Functions into Soft Materials | National Dong Hwa University | $30,000 |
| Irick, David | EcoCAR2 Engineering Graduate Research Assistant Fellowship | American Society for Engineering Education | $40,000 |
| Kalyanaraman, Ramakrishnan; Duscher, Gerd | Ferroplasmons: Theory and Experimental Investigations of Visible Light Plasmons in Ferromagnets | Army Research Office | $15,000 |
| Komistek, Richard; Hamel, William; Sharma, Adrija | In vivo determination of knee kinematics for subjects having either an Attune or Persona PCR TKA | ConforMIS | $245,933 |
| Li, Fangxing | SPIDERS: Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $85,000 |
| Li, Husheng | Communication System Design in Microgrid | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $26,148 |
| Li, Husheng | Collaborative Research: Physical Dynamics Aware Coding for Communications in Cyber Physical Systems: Analysis, Algorithms and Implementation | NSF – National Science Foundation | $200,000 |
| Li, Xueping | Advanced Modeling of OHS for System Optimization | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $8,190 |
| Liaw, Peter | AOI 5-A Computational Design and Performance Prediction of Creep-Resistant Ferritic Superalloys | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $189,553 |
| Lukosi, Eric | Modeling of Li-containing semiconductors for neutron detection and development of imaging applications | DOE – BWXT Y-12 | $117,501 |
| Maldonado, Guillermo | VVER 1000 Computational Modeling and Benchmark Calculations | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $33,241 |
| Maldonado, Guillermo; Wirth, Brian | Performance Assessment of Enhanced Accident Tolerant Fuels within Aggressive Operational Power Histories | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $639,967 |
| Mandrus, David; Yan, Jiaqiang | Crystal Growth and Neutron Scattering | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,135 |
| Melcher, Charles; Lukosi, Eric | Developing Low Cost Scintillators with Excellent Energy Resolution | US Dept. of Homeland Security | $349,673 |
| Papanicolaou, Thanos | Bank Stability Assessment Tool for Bridge and Abutment Infrastructure in Iowa | Iowa Dept of Transportation/US Dept. Of Transportation | $80,000 |
| Parang, Masood | TLSAMP Phase III | Tennessee State University/NSF – National Science Foundation | $44,000 |
| Pennycook, Stephen; Guo, Junjie | Atomic-scale investigations of energy materials | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $73,491 |
| Rawn, Claudia; Barashev, Alexander | Computational Materials Science Investigation of the Effects of Nuclear Irradiation on Structural Materials | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $119,211 |
| Ruggles, Arthur | HFIR Target Assessments | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,678 |
| Skutnik, Steven; Chvala, Ondrej | GO! PGM – Harris, Tyrone | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $21,048 |
| Sun, Jinyuan | CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: CAM: A Cloud-Assisted mHealth Monitoring System | NSF – National Science Foundation | $200,000 |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Program Income for NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network | Dominion Power | $13,000 |
| Tomsovic, Kevin | Microgrid Energy Management System and Grid Interface | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $34,384 |
| Wereszczak, Andrew; Pharr, George | Glass and Glass-Ceramic Structure and Responding Mechanical Performance | US Army Research Laboratory | $149,574 |
| Xu, Haixuan | Defect Evolution of Iron and Iron-based Alloys using Atomistic Simulations | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $91,301 |
| Xu, Haixuan | Integrated Computational and Experimental Study of Radiation Damage Effects in Grade 92 Steel and Alloy 709 | DOE- Idaho National Laboratory | $230,569 |
| Zhang, Zhili | Preliminary Work For Identifying and Tracking Combustion Reaction Pathways by Coherent Microwave Mapping of Photoelectrons | DOD – Department of the Air Force | $50,000 |
| Zhang, Zhili | Collaborative Research: Pre-Ionization Controlled Laser Plasma Formation for Ignition Applications | NSF – National Science Foundation | $45,000 |
| Zhang, Zhili | Reduction of Breakdown Threshold by Metal Nanoparticle Seeding in a DC Microdischarge | UES, Inc./DOD – Department of the Air Force | $21,000 |
| Zhuravleva, Mariya; Melcher, Charles | Scale-up to Success: Pioneering Crystal Growth of Large High Resolution Scintillators | US Dept. of Homeland Security | $399,944 |
| COLLEGE OF NURSING | |||
| Lindley, Lisa | An Examination of Hospice Use Among Children | DHHS – NIH – National Institute of Nursing Research | $92,911 |
| COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK | |||
| Campbell, Paul; Cunningham, Maryanne | Knoxville Police Department Anti-Bullying Training and Multi-Media Program Evaluation | Knoxville Police Department/Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration | $12,000 |
| Cheatham, Joanna | Signal Centers East CCR&R FY15 | Signal Centers, Inc/DHHS – Administration for Children and Families | $508,825 |
| Patterson, David | KnoxHMIS Exhibit 2 Renewal 2014-2015 | HUD – Housing & Urban Development | $132,282 |
| OTHER | |||
| High, Katherine; Lane, India | Credit When It’s Due: Recognizing the Value of Quality Associate Degrees | Lumina Foundation | $75,000 |
| CAMPUS CENTERS AND INSTITUTES | |||
| Crosby, Lonnie {JICS/JICS} | Support to the Comparative Genomics Group | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $129,996 |
| Gangaware, Timothy{ISSE/ISSE}; Layton, Alice{ISSE/CEB} | Knox County MOU and Work Order 1 – Adopt-A-Watershed | Knox County | $76,100 |
| Halloy, Christian {JICS/JICS} | Stahl Applied Data Science | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $9,585 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Galindo Generalized UQ Framework | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,049 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Work Stealing Algorithm – Su and Patel | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,000 |
| Halloy, Christian{JICS/JICS} | Joel Denny – High Level Intermediate Language Representation | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $185,302 |
| Hazlewood, Victor{JICS/JICS} | Workshop on the Development of a Next-generation, Interoperable, Federated Networking Cyberinfrastructure | NSF – National Science Foundation | $49,965 |
| Moeller, Trevor{UTSI/UTSI} | ACE Booster | Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC | $32,000 |
| Peterson, Gregory {JICS/JICS} | XSEDE: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment | University of Illinois/NSF – National Science Foundation | $2,286,000 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Timothy Jackson ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $21,212 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Mallory Ladd ESE GRA Bredesen Center | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $11,721 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Peter Shankles ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $9,195 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Patrick Caveney ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,719 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Alex Butler and William McClintic Bredesen Center student assistants with the Bredesen Center | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $2,520 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | William McClintic ESE Bredesen Center | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $4,962 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Kun Lou GRA, Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,126 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | GRA Chang Liu Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,126 |
| Riedinger, Leo {Bredesen Center/Bredensen Center} | Bredesen Center ESE Mark Christian GRA | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,350 |
| MULTICOLLEGE/CENTER | |||
| Allard, Suzanne (C&I); Eaker, Christopher(Libraries) | UT subcontract with the Council on Library and Information Resources grant with the Institute of Museum and Library Services | Council on Library and Information Resources/Institute of Museum & Library-Office of Museum Services | $11,300 |
| Carruthers, Celeste (Bus); Murray, Matthew (Baker Center); Fox, William; Bruce, Donald (Bus) | TNCRED Program Evaluation of Race to the Top | Vanderbilt University/Tennessee Higher Education Commission | $208,084 |
| Chen, Guoxun (EHHS); Hall, Howard (Baker Center) | Simulation Study using MCNPX and NRFGEANT4 for Applicability of Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence for Safeguards | DOE – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory/DOE – National Nuclear Security Administration | $22,736 |
| Loeffler, Frank (EHHS); Ritalahti, Kirsti (A&S); Campagna, Shawn (A&S); Yan, Jun (A&S) | Biogeochemical Controls over Corrinoid Bioavailability to Organohalide-Respiring Chloroflexi | DHHS – NIH – National Institute of Environmental Sciences | $194,397 |
| O’meara, Brian (A&S); Gilchrist, Michael (A&S); Zaretzki, Russell (Bus) | Population genetics-based codon models | NSF – National Science Foundation | $420,000 |
| Shelton, Theodore(A&D); Retherford, Jennifer (Engr); Bennett, Richard(Engr); Stuth, Tricia (A&D); French, Robert(A&D) | EPA P3 Green Oak as Sustainable Building Material | US Environmental Protection Agency | $89,973 |
* Note:
1. Awards that were excluded in this list:
a. Awards with negative award amount
b. The salary payments for Joint Appointment like Governor’s Chairs, distinguished scientists, and Joint Faculty
c. Restricted awards (awards with restircted flag checked in PAMS)
2. Format for Investigator column in ‘Campus Centers and Institutes’ : {award admin center_institute / Investigator_home_college_school}
3. Format for Sponsor column : {direct sponsor / prime sponsor} if there is a prime sponsor
4. Award data was pulled based on Award Notice Date (data entry date).
5. Data was pulled on 10/3/2014