Awards for September 2016

UT Knoxville Awards (9/1/16 – 9/30/16)*

Investigator

Title

Sponsor

Prime Sponsor

Obligated Award Amount

College of Arts & Sciences

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

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

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

Hillyer, Sarah

Better World: Empowering Global Change Agents through Sports

DOS – US Department of State

$1,030,000

College of Engineering

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

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

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

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

Moeller, Trevor

Medium-scale Cryotank Testing Support

Gloyer-Taylor Laboratories LLC

DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency

$7,500

Other

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