The following awards were granted in September 2017. To see a total of all awards and breakdown of where the monies originated, see the graph below.
Data available in accessible Excel spreadsheet: Awards for September 2017
Lead PI |
Project Title |
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obl Award Amnt |
College of Arts and Sciences |
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| Grzywacz, Robert | Support for Joint Institute for Nuclear Physics and Applications | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $280,460 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Chen Qian GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $7,537 | |
| Emery, Joshua | Water and OH on Primitive Bodies: Expanding the Frontier | Applied Physics Laboratory – Johns Hopkins University (APL JHU) | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $30,000 |
| Jouline, Igor | Culturing of the uncultured: reverse genomics and multispecies consortia in oral health and disease | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | HHS – NIH – NIDCR – National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research | $220,314 |
| Efremenko, Yuri | Search for the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay, and Low Background Physics | DOE – SC – Office of Science | $94,000 | |
| Moersch, Jeffrey | Next Generation Neutron and Gamma-Ray Spectrometer for Planetary Spacecraft | Arizona State University (ASU) | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $35,282 |
| 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 | |
| Pan, Chongle | High Performance Bioinformatics Workflow for Integrative | DOD – Navy – NRL – Naval Research Laboratory | $24,999 | |
| Labrador-San Jose, Mariano | FMR1 protein and chromatin insulators mediate chromatin function and genome integrity | HHS – NIH – NINDS – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke | $18,875 | |
| Stuart, Gregory | Proximal Associations of Alcohol Use with Suicidal Ideation and Behaviors | HHS – NIH – NIAAA – National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism | $44,044 | |
| Barrera Olivares, Francisco | Transmembrane peptides for targeting acidosis | HHS – NIH – NIGMS – National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $328,656 | |
| Dolislager, Fredrick | Risk Integration Technical Suppot for FY17 – FY20 | DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC | $2,000 | |
| Moersch, Jeffrey | Detection of subsurface hydrogen and geochemical anomalies along Curiosity’s traverse with data from the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons experiment: Passive-mode data analysis and a re-evaluation of key active-mode data | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $157,983 | |
| Chai, Chengping | Stress Modeling and Evolution | DOE – NNSA – LANL – Los Alamos National Laboratory | $117,965 | |
| Maroulas, Vasileios | Topological Learning for EEG Data | Thor Industries, Inc | DOD – Army – ARL – Army Research Office | $109,128 |
| Binder, Brad | Ethylene signaling networks that control root development | Wake Forest University (WFU) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $86,691 |
| Ezzell, Timothy | Night Comes to the Cumberlands?and It’s Awesome: Promoting Night Sky Conservation and Development in the Upper Cumberland | East Tennessee State University (ETSU) | US – ARC – Appalachian Regional Commission | $4,500 |
| Angst, Michael | Archaeological Monitoring of Construction for the Proposed City of Stevenson Municipal Park, Guntersville Reservoir, Jackson County, Alabama | US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority | $2,993 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Shukla – GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $30,454 | |
| Long, Brian | Advancing Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes through Molecular Engineering | DOE – SC – Office of Science | $149,133 | |
| Steiner, Andrew | Towards Exascale Astrophysics of Mergers and Supernovae (TEAMS) | DOE – SC – Office of Science | None | $217,000 |
| Papenbrock, Thomas | Nuclear Computational Low Energy Initiative (NUCLEI) | DOE – SC – Office of Science | None | $232,000 |
| MacLean, Calvin | The Roy Cockrum Foundation – Clarence Brown Theatre/University of Tennessee Foundation (Candide) | University of Tennessee Foundation | Roy Cockrum Foundation | $537,422 |
| Thomson, Bradley | Gale Crater: The Lithologic, Statigraphic, and Mineralogic Relationships Between Mt. Sharp Substrate and Unconformable Deposits | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | None | $78,049 |
| Thomson, Bradley | Gale Crater: The Lithologic, Statigraphic, and Mineralogic Relationships Between Mt. Sharp Substrate and Unconformable Deposits | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | None | $134,638 |
| Stuart, Gregory | Extending a Conceptual Model of Alcohol-Related Violence to Cyber Dating Violence using a Daily Diary Design with College Students | American Psychological Foundation | $13,400 | |
| Ganguly, Nivedita | Junior Science & Humanities Symposium 2017-18 | Academy of Applied Science, Inc | DOD – Department of Defense | $22,000 |
| MacLean, Calvin | ABC Grant FY18 – Clarence Brown Theatre | Tennessee Arts Commission | $1,775 | |
| Siopsis, George | Governor’s Schools for the Sciences and Engineering | Tennessee Department of Education | $368,572 | |
Haslam College of Business |
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| Noon, Charles | Contractor Assurance Business Analytics Graduate Students | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | None | $45,000 |
| Taylor, Edward | Falls Training In Light of New OSHA Regulations | DOL – US Dept. of Labor | None | $46,927 |
College of Communication & Information |
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| Allard, Suzanne | Support for the Neutron Sciences Directorate at ORNL | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,000 | |
College of Education,Health, & Human Sciences |
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| Gibbons, Melinda | PIPES: Possibilities in Postsecondary Education and Science among rural Appalachian youth | HHS – NIH – OD – ORIP – Office of Research Infrastructure Program | $19,255 | |
| Bettaieb, Ahmed | Metabolic functions of adipose pyruvate kinase M2 | HHS – NIH – NIDDK – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | $239,812 | |
| Hillyer, Sarah | Better World: Empowering Global Change Agents through Sports | DOS – US Department of State | $1,130,000 | |
Tickle College of Engineering |
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| Heilbronn, Lawrence | Nuclear Energy Fellowship/Scholarship Program | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $3,750 | |
| 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 | Boeing | $50,000 | |
| Clarke, David | DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $32,081 | |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Web Site | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $41,283 | |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Program, Clean Cities, & Your MPG | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,843 | |
| Lang, Maik | Materials Science of Actinides – EFRC | University of Notre Dame | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $195,000 |
| Huang, Jian | Application Development for Biodiversity Modeling Service of Great Smoky Mountains National Park | DOI – NPS – National Park Service | $34,944 | |
| Zinkle, Steven | Nuclear Fuels Fundamental Research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | |
| Hayward, Jason | Time Correlated Measurements with Nuclear Materials Identifications System – 2 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | |
| Hayward, Jason | Gamma ray imaging experimental support for nuclear safeguards and security applications | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $6,863 | |
| Mandrus, David | EFRI 2-DARE: Spin-Valley Coupling for Photonic and Spintronic Devices | University of Washington (UW) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $63,593 |
| Blalock, Benjamin | Multi-channel Integrated Spectrum Analyzer (MISA) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $98,457 | |
| Ma, Zhongguo | Study of Alkali-Silica Reaction Effects on Stressed-Confined Concrete Nuclear Thick Structures | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $100,000 | |
| Dongarra, Jack | CSR:Medium:Collaborative Research: SparseKaffe: high-performance,auto-tuned, energy-aware algorithms for sparse direct methods onmodern heterogeneous architectures | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $137,902 | |
| Rawn, Claudia | I/UCRC Full Grant: Center for Integrative Materials Joining Science for Energy Applications (CIMJSEA) University of Tennessee, Knoxville, (UTK) Site | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $49,771 | |
| Jin, Mingzhou | D&A Study for Climate Change | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $24,699 | |
| Donovan, David | Plasma Diagnostic Development and Data Analysis on the Proto-MPEX Linear Plasma Experiment | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,814 | |
| Hayward, Jason | Investigation of DEtectors, Algorithms, and Systems for Wearable Intelligent Nuclear Detection (IDEAS for WIND) | DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security | $345,559 | |
| Gregor, Jens | Reconstruction algorithms for neutron imaging device | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $67,497 | |
| Wang, Fei | An Ultra-light Highly Efficient MW Class Cryogenically Cooled Inverter for Future All Electric Aircraft Applications | Boeing | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $1,459 |
| TerMaath, Stephanie | Integrated Simulation and Testing for the Qualification of Composite Parts Fabricated through Additive Manufacturing | DOD – Navy – Department of the Navy | $167,349 | |
| Rawn, Claudia | Computational Materials Science Investigation of the Effects of Nuclear Irradiation on Structural Materials | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $101,907 | |
| Liu, Yilu | Testing and Modeling of Bulk System Components Under EMP/GIC | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $57,070 | |
| Liu, Yilu | Extreme Event Modeling | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $25,000 | |
| Clarke, David | DOE/EPA Fuel Economy Information & Market Research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,614 | |
| Clarke, David | Fuel Economy Guide | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $42,966 | |
| Maldonado, Guillermo | MOC Speedup Algorithms for Load Follow Operation | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,527 | |
| 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 | |
| Djouadi, Seddik | Using Deep Learning to Detect Data Integrity Attacks in Control Systems | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,660 | |
| Heilbronn, Lawrence | Continuation of NASA Grant NNX15AD89A | NASA – Langley Research Center | $40,000 | |
| Costinett, Daniel | Transportation Electrification | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,642 | |
| Langston, Michael | Confidential | BAE Systems Information and Electronic Warfare | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $15,000 |
| Jantz, Michael | RCAPTS: Readiness Certification Assurance Process Tracking System | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | $23,937 | |
| Duty, Chad | Large Scale Thermal Expansion Characterization of Printed Samples | Boeing | $45,709 | |
| Qi, Hairong | Labeling and Environment-modeling using Geometric Optimization (LEGO) | Applied Research Associates, Inc | US – ODNI – IARPA – Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity | $15,000 |
| Hayward, Jason | Single Volume Neutron Scatter Camera R&D Based on an Optical Coded Aperture | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $47,386 | |
| Parker, Lynne | Scalable Approach to Improve Load Models via Automated Building Creation and Autotune Calibration | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $83,405 |
| Burton, Mark | Agricultural Freight Corridors, Railroad Capacity, and the Implications of Railroad Rates | USDA – US Dept. of Agriculture | $118,705 | |
| Bray, Larry | River Transportation and the Poultry Industry in North America | USDA – Agricultural Marketing Service | None | $92,727 |
| Berry, Michael | ASCEND: Advances in Machine Learning to Improve Scientific Discovery at Exascale and Beyond | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | None | $35,000 |
| Babu, Sudarsanam | Alloy Designs for Creep Resistant (Fe-Cr-Al) Ferritic Alloys with Laves Phase Precipitates | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,036 | |
| Young, Matthew | Eastman Senior Design FY18 | Eastman Chemical Co. | $15,000 | |
| Jin, Mingzhou | Additive Manufacturing Support and Research | DOE – Y12 – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) | $25,039 | |
| Lang, Maik | The Thermodynamics of Crystallization and Phase-Separation in Melt-Derived Nuclear Waste Forms | DOE – NE – NEUP- Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineering University Program | $640,000 | |
| Zhuravleva, Mariya | Accelerated Aging and Defect Study in Plastic Scintillators | DHS – DNDO – Domestic Nuclear Detection Office | None | $299,576 |
| Irick, David | EcoCAR3 Year 4 ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT FELLOWSHIP- | American Society for Engineering Education | $10,000 | |
| Irick, David | EcoCAR3 Year 4 Project Manager Fellowship- | American Society for Engineering Education | $5,000 | |
| Irick, David | EcoCAR3 Year 4 COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER FELLOWSHIP- | American Society for Engineering Education | $5,000 | |
| Irick, David | EcoCAR3 Undergraduate Fellowship | American Society for Engineering Education | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $5,000 |
| Clarke, David | Transportation Energy Evolution Modeling (TEEM) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $23,005 | |
| Rose, Garrett | A Pulse-Based Characterization System for Temperature-Dependent and Transient Analysis of Nanoscale Devices and Circuits | DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research | None | $777,480 |
College of Social Work |
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| Wodarski, John | Tennessee’s Homeless Family Services in Supportive Housing | HHS – SAMHSA – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services | $399,747 | |
| Wodarski, John | Tennessee HIV/AIDS, Related Substance Use Disorders, and Mental Disorders Services Program | HHS – SAMHSA – Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services | None | $496,073 |
Research Centers & Institutes |
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| Crosby, Lonnie | Fluids in Nanoporous Matrices | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $105,809 | |
| Ripp, Steven | BioEnergy Science Center, University of Tennessee, Phase II | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $148,092 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Erik Walker ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $18,383 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Victoria DiStefano ESE GRA Bredesen Center | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $55,018 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Deborah Weighill ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,525 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | ESE Bredesen Center GRA Anna Wanhala | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $53,893 | |
| Feigerle, Charles | Dynamics in Multi-component Polymeric Materials | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Biometric Platforms – Fred Heberle | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $24,717 | |
| Hall, Howard | Conductivity, Radiolytic Effects, and Diffusion of Interdicted Time-dependent Metallic Signatures (CREDIT) | DHS – US Dept. of Homeland Security | $331,771 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE John Izaak Miller GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $9,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Chance Brown | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,754 | |
| Hall, Howard | Support for Centrifuge Cascade Codes in MatLab | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $27,008 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Alex Pawlowski GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,229 | |
| Hu, Bin | Synthesis and characterization of Organometal Trihalide Perovskites | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $5,407 | |
| Auxier, John | Characterization of the Plasma Chemistry in Nuclear Fireballs | DOD – SEC – DTRA – Defense Threat Reduction Agency | None | $100,000 |
| Riedinger, Leo | Jameson Landon Tyler GRA, Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $25,795 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Piet Jones | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $46,458 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Patrick Shower GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $6,104 | |
| Bishop, Pamela | Radford HHMI Inclusive Excellence Project | Radford University | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | $15,409 |
| Riedinger, Leo | Yunchao Li ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,639 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Swapnil Desai | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $16,414 | |
UT Space Institute |
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| Yu, Andrew | Component Management in Logistics and Supply Chain Systems | DOE – NNSA – Sandia National Lab | $30,000 | |
| Combs, Christopher | Arnold Diagnostics Summit | DOD – Air Force – AFOSR – Air Force Office Scientific Research | $20,623 | |
| Abedi, Reza | SPX: Collaborative Research: Asynchronous, Parallel-Adaptive Solution of Extreme Multiscale Problems in Seismology | US – NSF – CISE – Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $178,680 |
| Davenport, Joel | J85 Testing Support_NAS Req.# 561749 | National Aerospace Solutions LLC | $3,001 | |
| Davenport, Joel | J85 Testing Support – GE Preliminary_Req.# 561751 | National Aerospace Solutions LLC | $8,998 | |
Other |
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| Smith, Steven | UT/ORNL Library Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $552,494 | |
| Rack, Philip | Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,708 | |
| Eighmy, Thomas | Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation | Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $200,000 |
| Eighmy, Thomas | Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation | Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $8,000 |
| 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 | $12,000 |
| 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 | $64,015 |