The following awards were granted in September 2016. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
(The downloadable spreadsheet has been temporarily removed while data is amended.)
UT Knoxville Awards (9/1/16 – 9/30/16)* |
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Investigator |
Title |
Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obligated Award Amount |
College of Arts & Sciences |
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Barnes, Craig |
Purification of Zirconium Tetrachloride (ZrCl4) from UNF Cladding |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$405,592 |
|
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 |
$20,248 |
|
Best, Michael |
Labeling of Lipid Products using Synthetic Tagged Metabolite Probes to Analyze Lipid Biosynthesis and Trafficking |
HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences |
$453,000 |
|
Cyr, Howard |
Particle Size Analysis of Sediment and Soil Samples Recovered From Site 37 at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, Forest, VA |
The Corporation for Jefferson’s Poplar Forest |
$1,786 |
|
Elias, Dwayne |
Development of in-situ Hg Remediation Approaches based on Methylmercury Bioavailability |
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) |
HHS – NIH – NIEHS – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences |
$40,000 |
Ezzell, Timothy |
Appalachian Teaching Project 2016: Mountain City Planning Challenge |
East Tennessee State University (ETSU) |
US – ARC – Appalachian Regional Commission |
$4,500 |
Ezzell, Timothy |
Development of Best Practices among Case Study Communities From the Strategies |
US – ARC – Appalachian Regional Commission |
$21,920 |
|
Fefferman, Nina |
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Algorithmic Framework for Anomaly Detection in Interdependent Networks |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$99,938 |
|
Guo, Hong |
Data Analysis and Computational Modeling /Simulations for Engineering CAM Photosynthetic Machinery into Bioenergy Crops |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$71,716 |
|
Hardin, Erin |
Collaborative Research: ASPIRE: Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$2,887,974 |
|
Hollenbach, Kandace |
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of 9GO390 and 9WD164, Gordon and Whitfield Counties, Georgia |
Tennessee Valley Archaeological Research |
$1,471 |
|
Jenkins, David |
Catalytic C2+N1 Aziridination from Organic and Carbamate Azides |
HHS – NIH – National Institutes of Health |
$377,500 |
|
Jenkins, David |
All Optical Determination of Isotopic Enrichment of Actinides |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$49,669 |
|
Karakashian, Ohannes |
Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin methods and Applications |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$196,453 |
|
Katsaras, John |
Dynamics of Biologically Relevant Model Membrane Systems |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$27,654 |
|
Lenhart, Suzanne |
Environmental Components in Disease Models |
North Carolina State University (NCSU) |
HHS – NIH – National Institutes of Health |
$58,561 |
Maroulas, Vasileios |
Analyzing Data-Specific Model-Selection Criteria |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$14,911 |
|
McCanta, Molly |
Oxidation State of Lunar Glasses: Implications for Surface and Eruptive Processes on the Moon |
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
$90,510 |
|
Nazarewicz, Witold |
Nuclear Computational Low Energy Initiative (NUCLEI) |
DOE – SC – Office of Science |
$105,000 |
|
O’Meara, Brian |
Population genetics-based codon models |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$50,000 |
|
Sepaniak, Michael |
MEMS Resonators |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,821 |
|
Siopsis, George |
Governor’s School for the Sciences and Governor’s School for Engineering |
Tennessee Department of Education |
$368,752 |
|
Stuart, Gregory |
Proximal Associations of Alcohol Use with Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors |
HHS – NIH – NIAAA – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism |
$43,576 |
|
Taylor, Lawrence |
SSERVI Environment and Evolution of Exploration Destinations: Science and Engineering synergism -SEEED. |
Brown University (BU) |
NASA – Headquarters Washington DC |
$9,716 |
Vonarnim, Albrecht |
Graduate Research Villalobos |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$6,000 |
|
Webster, Clayton |
Collaborative research: Mathematical methods for optimal polynomial recovery of high-dimensional systems from sparse and noisy data |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$65,752 |
|
Wilhelm, Steven |
Academic support for protocols.io |
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
None |
$42,219 |
Haslam College of Business |
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Bichescu, Bogdan |
GIS MSBA Assistantship |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
None |
$10,500 |
Cathey, Amy |
New MBA/MSBA Students for Y-12: Fall 2015 – Summer 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$29,819 |
Cathey, Amy |
New MBA Students for Y-12: Fall 2016 |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
None |
$21,000 |
Degennaro, Ramon |
Reading Group on Entrepreneurial Finance Topics |
Charles Koch Foundation |
None |
$12,850 |
College of Communication & Information |
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Allard, Suzanne |
University of New Mexico DataONE subcontract |
University of New Mexico (UNM) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$541,985 |
Allard, Suzanne |
Support for the Biological and Environmental Research Information System (BERIS) – Science Writer |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$138,697 |
|
College of Education, Health, & Human Sciences |
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Hillyer, Sarah |
Better World: Empowering Global Change Agents through Sports |
DOS – US Department of State |
$1,030,000 |
|
College of Engineering |
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Coble, Jamie |
Integrating Data Sources for Improved Safeguards and Accountancy of Electrochemical Fuel Reprocessing Streams |
DOE – NE – NEUP- Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineering University Program |
$640,000 |
|
Costinett, Daniel |
EcoCAR 3 ECE GRA Year 3 |
American Society for Engineering Education |
$10,000 |
|
Costinett, Daniel |
Design of an Integrated Multi-Tap Resonant Transformer for Electrosurgical Generators |
COVIDIEN |
$31,745 |
|
Counce, Robert |
Evaluation of Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Phosphate Processing Streams |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$18,000 |
|
Danalis, Antonios |
SI2-SSE: PAPI Unifying Layer for Software-defined Events (PULSE) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$499,997 |
|
Djouadi, Seddik |
Design and development of models of electric grid components to support the simulation environment for cyber-physical system security |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Duty, Chad |
Process Variability in Additive Mfg of TI64 |
VEXTEC Corporation |
DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research |
$40,634 |
Fu, Joshua |
Air quality assessment to MeadWestvaco on potential VOC emission controls in Beijing, China |
Ingevity |
$96,543 |
|
Fu, Joshua |
Go! Stochastic Parameterization approach to explore landscape heterogeneity and dynamic landscape variability, CLM-CMIP and Biomass Burning |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$37,354 |
|
Gregor, Jens |
Reconstruction algorithms for neutron imaging device |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$31,000 |
|
Hayward, Jason |
Investigation of DEtectors, Algorithms, and Systems (IDEAS) for Rapid and Robust Clearing of Cargo from Shielded SNM |
DHS – DNDO – Domestic Nuclear Detection Office |
$350,000 |
|
Hayward, Jason |
Safeguards technology research in segmented gamma scanning |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$2,761 |
|
Hayward, Jason |
Investigation of DEtectors, Algorithms, and Systems for Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection (IDEAS for WIND) |
DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security |
$445,525 |
|
Heilbronn, Lawrence |
Nuclear Energy Fellowship/Scholarship Program |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$105,000 |
|
Huang, Jian |
Application Development for Biodiversity Modeling Service of Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
DOI – NPS – National Park Service |
$77,266 |
|
Irick, David |
EcoCAR2 ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT FELLOWSHIP |
American Society for Engineering Education |
$10,000 |
|
Irick, David |
EcoCAR2 ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT FELLOWSHIP |
American Society for Engineering Education |
$20,000 |
|
Jin, Mingzhou |
D&A Study for Climate Change |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$23,728 |
|
Kurzak, Jakub |
SI2-SSE: BONSAI: An Open Software Infrastructure for Parallel Autotuning of Computational Kernels |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$499,977 |
|
Li, Xueping |
Towards World Class Maintenance Organization with the Internet of Things |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$18,700 |
|
Liaw, Peter |
Serration Behavior of High-Entropy Alloys |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$50,000 |
Lukosi, Eric |
Low Cost Methylammonium Lead Halide Semiconductor for dual Gamma/Neutron Sensing |
DHS – DNDO – Domestic Nuclear Detection Office |
$336,696 |
|
Lukosi, Eric |
Y12 Supporting Simulation and Measurement Campaign |
DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) |
$10,000 |
|
Maldonado, Guillermo |
MOC Speedup Algorithms for Load Follow Operation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$33,019 |
|
Mandrus, David |
Correlated and Complex Materials |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$21,490 |
|
Mandrus, David |
EFRI 2-DARE: Spin-Valley Coupling for Photonic and Spintronic Devices |
University of Washington (UW) |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$61,066 |
Materassi, Donatello |
CAREER: Design of in-line controllers for continuously operating networks with structural uncertainty |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$86,901 |
|
Melcher, Charles |
Developing Low Cost Scintillators with Excellent Energy Resolution |
DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security |
$349,602 |
|
Mockus, Audris |
BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: IA: OSCAR – Open Source Supply Chains and Avoidance of Risk: An evidence based approach to improve FLOSS supply chains |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$1,300,000 |
|
Ostrowski, James |
Modeling Road Vulnerability to Snow |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$1,500 |
|
Ragauskas, Arthur |
Chemical Pretreatment and Characterization of Biomass Samples for Dynamic Visualization of Ligncellulose Degradation by yIntegration of Neutron Scattering Imaging and Computer Simulation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$40,000 |
|
Tolbert, Leon |
Wide-BandGap (WBG) Device and System Assessment for Future Automotive Electric Drivetrains |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$11,171 |
|
Tolbert, Leon |
GMLC Energy Storage for Habitat for Humanity |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$40,000 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$1,188,147 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$2,000,000 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$1,333,333 |
|
Tomsovic, Kevin |
ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$1,333,333 |
|
Vaidya, Uday |
CERC-BEE-Composites for Precast Walls |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$22,000 |
|
Vaidya, Uday |
GO PGM: Techno-economical Calculations and Energy Analysis |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$35,280 |
|
Vaidya, Uday |
Governor |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$125,000 |
|
Weber, William |
IBML Use for ORNL BES Irradiation Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$10,920 |
|
Wirth, Brian |
Fuel Cycle Research and Development Program |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$85,000 |
|
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 |
$652,103 |
|
Zinkle, Steven |
Radiation Effects on High Thermal Conductivity Fuel Surrogates |
DOE – INL – Idaho National Laboratory |
$211,161 |
|
College of Social Work |
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Patterson, David |
City of Knoxville Support HMIS Dashboard FY 17 |
City of Knoxville Community Development Division |
$36,000 |
|
Patterson, David |
2016-2017 City of Knoxville ESG Homeless Grant |
City of Knoxville Community Development Division |
HUD – Housing and Urban Development |
$15,000 |
RCI |
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Auxier, John |
Support for Lt Saul King’s Master’s Project |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Beste Catalysis and Electron Transport |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$103,864 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Fluids in Nanoporous Matrices |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$33,528 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
CADES ORNL |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$125,061 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Visual Analytics Tools – Halsey |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$35,000 |
|
Crosby, Lonnie |
Joel Denny – High Level Intermediate Language Representation |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$3,446 |
|
Egami, Takeshi |
Neutron scattering study of disordered materials under pressure |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$59,649 |
|
Glasby, Ryan |
Next Generation Navier-Stokes Solver Development and Algorithm Scalability Analysis and Support – II |
Engility Corporation |
DOD – Department of Defense |
$131,668 |
Greene, David |
Support to NREL’s Research and Analysis for the California Energy Commission |
DOE – NREL – National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Sponsor Not Listed |
$50,000 |
Greene, David |
National Renewable Energy Laboratory Systems Analysis Support |
DOE – NREL – National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
$50,000 |
|
Hale-Salvo, Hannah |
University of Tennessee Support for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP). |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$40,000 |
|
Hale-Salvo, Hannah |
University of Tennessee Support for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s International Nuclear Safeguards Engagement Program (INSEP). |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$25,000 |
|
Hall, Howard |
Conductivity, Radiolytic Effects, and Diffusion of Interdicted Time-dependent Metallic Signatures (CREDIT) |
DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security |
$331,771 |
|
Hall, Howard |
Global Nuclear Security Engagement Activites |
DOS – US Department of State |
$464,648 |
|
Jonsson, Colleen |
Collaborative Research: Modeling Immune Dynamics of RNA Viruses In Reservoir and Nonreservoir Species |
University of Louisville |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$86,987 |
Liu, Jian |
Implanting Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling at Magnetoelectric Interfaces |
DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
$374,999 |
|
Rack, Philip |
Ion Beam Induced Etching |
Intel Corporation |
$200,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Chance Brown |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$5,553 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Yunchao Li ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$20,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Travis Lange ESE GRA Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$19,092 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
ESE Bredesen Center GRA Anna Wanhala |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$27,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Stephen Signore ESE Bredesen Center Graduate Research Assistant |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$13,261 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Timothy Yates GRA Bredesen Center ESE |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$24,797 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Biometric Platforms – Fred Heberle |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$16,000 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$53,343 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bresedesen Center ESE Artem Maksov GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$8,944 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Victoria DiStefano ESE GRA Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$28,664 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE Tong Wu GRA |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$40,944 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Guinevere Shaw ESE Bredesen Center |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$60,206 |
|
Riedinger, Leo |
Bredesen Center ESE GRA Reed Wittman |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
$15,000 |
|
Simpson, Michael |
Accelerated AChE Reactivators: Design by Mechanistic Neutron Scattering Studies |
DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
HHS – NIH – National Institutes of Health |
$80,000 |
Sims, Charles |
Ecosystem Services in the Northern Rockies |
USDA – Forest Service – Rocky Mountain Research Station (MRS) |
$15,000 |
|
Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana |
EAGER: The International Workshop on Biology and Biotechnology of Thermophilic Microorganisms |
US – NSF – National Science Foundation |
$10,000 |
|
UTSI |
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Moeller, Trevor |
Cryo Vac Chamber Testing |
Square One Systems Design, Inc. |
DOD – Air Force – Department of the Air Force |
$7,764 |
Moeller, Trevor |
Liquid Rocket Engine Testing of GTL’s Superior Stability Engine (SSE-5k) |
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC |
$206,131 |
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Moeller, Trevor |
Medium-scale Cryotank Testing Support |
Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC |
DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency |
$7,500 |
Other |
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Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$132,487 |
Eighmy, Thomas |
Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation |
Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. |
DOE – US Dept. of Energy |
$800,473 |
*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 12/16/2015
- 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