The following awards were granted in October 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 October 2017
Lead PI |
Project Title |
Direct Sponsor |
Prime Sponsor |
Obl Award Amnt |
College of Arts and Sciences |
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| McSween, Harry | THEMIS Science Team Member for Mars Odyssey Spacecraft | Arizona State University (ASU) | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $22,500 |
| Moersch, Jeffrey | ASU Subcontract: Spectral Mapping and Thermophysical Characterization of the Martian Surface | Arizona State University (ASU) | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $21,955 |
| Loeffler, Frank | Anaerobic Microbial Biotransformation and Biodegradation of Bisphenol A (BPA) | American Chemistry Council | $129,715 | |
| Feigerle, Charles | Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,000 | |
| Allison, David | Destroying Pathogenic Bacteria Using Targeted-Nanoparticles | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,231 | |
| Katsaras, John | Dynamics of Biologically Relevant Model Membrane Systems | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $31,943 | |
| Weitering, Harm | Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) Recharge Usage | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $37,950 | |
| Feigerle, Charles | Functionalized Carbon Materials and Recovery of Uranium From Seawater | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $144,636 | |
| Feigerle, Charles | Synthesis of Task-Specific Ionic Liquids for Separation of Rare-Earth Metal Ions | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,412 | |
| Moersch, Jeffrey | Mineralogy and Aeolian Geology with the Mars Exploration Rover Mission | NASA – Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $11,500 |
| Gross, Louis | UT-Battelle EPA Risk Environment Assessment and Decision Analysis | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,907 | |
| Gross, Louis | UT-Battelle EPA Risk-Environment Assessment and Decision Analyses | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $355,000 | |
| Pan, Chongle | High Performance Bioinformatics Workflow for Integrative | DOD – Navy – NRL – Naval Research Laboratory | $207,632 | |
| Alexandre-Jouline, Gladys | Beneficial Plant-Bacterial Interactions | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $15,040 | |
| Feigerle, Charles | Synthesis of Novel Catalysis | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $129,526 | |
| McCanta, Molly | Oxidation State of Lunar Glasses: Implications for Surface and Eruptive Processes on the Moon | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $78,086 | |
| Campagna, Shawn | Refining the Purine/Histidine/Thiamine Biosynthetic Pathway System in Salmonella enterica as a Model Network | University of Georgia (UGA) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $77,402 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Graduate Research – Sushmitha | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,256 | |
| Dolislager, Fredrick | Risk Integration Technical Suppot for FY17 – FY20 | DOE – UCOR – URS CH2M Oak Ridge LLC | $3,013 | |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | Graduate Research Assistant | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $97,340 | |
| Alderman, Derek | Mapping Jim Crow From Below: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Geospatial Intelligence, and Civil Rights | Pennsylvania State University (PSU) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $112,413 |
| Emery, Joshua | Lucy: Surveying the Diversity of Trojans | Southwest Research Institute | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $29,641 |
| Vonarnim, Albrecht | GRA Barde research | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,256 | |
| Angst, Michael | Phase I Archaeological Survey of Valley Fill and Stream Restoration Areas at Dollywood, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee. | Dollywood | $2,952 | |
| Angst, Michael | Phase I Archaeological Survey of Tracts XT20CR-1RE, XT20CR-2RE, XT20CR-3RE, and XT20CR-14RE On the Ocoee River, Polk County, Tennessee | US – OIG – TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority | $13,423 | |
| Smith, Jeremy | Support for Critical Interfaces Science Focus Area: Molecular Mechanisms Governing Mercury Biogeochemical Transformations | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $12,000 | |
| Burr, Devon | The Titan Tumbler: Investigating Endmember Sedimentological Processes on Titan | Colgate University | NASA – Headquarters Washington DC | $139,680 |
| Hollenbach, Kandace | Paleoethnobotanical Analysis from 9GE1649, Greene County, Georgia | Brockington and Associates | $1,632 | |
Haslam College of Business |
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| Cody, James | Better Business Deals | DOD – Air Force – AFIT – Air Force Institute of Technology | $430,622 | |
College of Communication & Information |
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| Allard, Suzanne | Support For Computational Science and Engineering Division-UTBattelle (Nelson) | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $238,323 | |
College of Education,Health, & Human Sciences |
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| Raynor, Hollie | Increased Protein at Breakfast for Weight Management in Overweight Adolescents | Purdue University (PU) | HHS – NIH – NIDDK – National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | $14,013 |
| Brewer, Ernest | Academic Enrichment Upward Bound 2017-2022 | ED – US Dept. of Education | $358,115 | |
| Brewer, Ernest | Math Science Upward Bound 2017-2022 | ED – US Dept. of Education | $313,594 | |
| Raynor, Hollie | Enhancing Sleep Duration: Effects on Children’s Eating and Activity Behaviors | Temple University | HHS – NIH – NHLBI – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | $28,003 |
Tickle College of Engineering |
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| Egami, Takeshi | Atomistic Study of Bulk Metallic Glasses | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $80,000 | |
| Donovan, David | Fusion Materials and Technology | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $5,000 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | $45,000 | |
| 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 | $32,754 | |
| Sun, Jinyuan | CLM Software Analysis Tool Enhancement-GO! Prgm | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,733 | |
| Hazen, Terry | ENIGMA subcontract | DOE – SC – LBL – Lawrence Berkely National Lab – University of California | $20,589 | |
| Vaidya, Uday | Governor | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $125,000 | |
| Rose, Garrett | Development of a Memristive Dynamic Adaptive Neural Network Array (mrDANNA) | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $64,000 | |
| Hayward, Jason | Nuclear Science and Engineering Nonproliferation Research Consortium | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | DOE – National Nuclear Security Administration | $850,000 |
| Lang, Maik | Actinide Materials under Extreme Conditions | Carnegie Institute | DOE – NNSA – National Nuclear Security Administration | $22,200 |
| Rack, Philip | Ionic liquid interactions for multiferroic functionality | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $4,263 | |
| Loeffler, Frank | Validating the use of engineered sorbents to sequester mercury released from contaminated soils and sediments | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $7,500 | |
| Skutnik, Steven | Consortium for Nonproliferation Enabling Capabilities (CNEC) Fellowship | North Carolina State University (NCSU) | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $148,189 |
| Liu, Yilu | Sensor Placement Tool Development | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $75,000 | |
| Lyles, Joseph | DC3 MAP | Raytheon Company | DOD – SEC – DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Project Agency | $11,499 |
| Chakraborty, Subhadeep | Confidential | Applied Optimization, Inc. | DOD – Navy – Department of the Navy | $103,867 |
| Wood, Richard | Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: Measurement, Control, and Simulation | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $50,000 | |
| Ezzell, Timothy | Trends and Strategies for Tourism in Appalachia | US – ARC – Appalachian Regional Commission | None | $191,956 |
| Qi, Hairong | High Performance Image Processing Algorithms for Currentand Future Mastcam Imagers | Applied Research LLC | NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $194,700 |
| Clarke, David | TEEM-Transportation Energy Evolution Modeling | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $26,118 | |
| Peterson, Gregory | Machine Learning Research to Support Precision Medicine | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | US – VA – US Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs | $93,551 |
| Clarke, David | Assistance to ORNL NHTS Project | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,741 | |
| Everett, Jerry | Judicial Outreach Liaison Program (JOL) | TDOT – Tennessee Highway Safety Office | None | $94,000 |
| Ostrowski, James | Urban Resiliency | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,000 | |
| Tolbert, Leon | Battery Management Test System for Energy Storage Technologies | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $60,000 | |
| Dongarra, Jack | MAGMA Templates for Scalable Linear Algebra on New Architectures | Engility Corporation | DOD – Department of Defense | $44,973 |
| Wilt, Catherine | Strategic Visioning for Access to Health in Haywood County, Tennessee | City of Brownsville | Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development | $20,000 |
| Everett, Jerry | Media Evaluations | TDOT – Tennessee Highway Safety Office | None | $131,000 |
| Everett, Jerry | Get Convinced | Tennessee Department of Safety | None | $74,000 |
| Palomino, Angelica | Networking and Collaboration Fellowship Seed Grants: Storage And Usage Of Energy Products Collaboration | University of Michigan | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $5,000 |
| Li, Xueping | Health Innovation Partnership Program (HIPP) | East Tennessee Children’s Hospital | $155,017 | |
| Hathaway, Jon | S&CC-IRG Preliminary Proposal Track 1: Overcoming Social and Technical Barriers for the Broad Adoption of Smart Stormwater Systems | University of Michigan | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $456,083 |
| Costinett, Daniel | EcoCAR 3 ECE GRA Year 4 | American Society for Engineering Education | $10,000 | |
College of Nursing |
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| Niederhauser, Victoria | Winning S.C.O.R.E. Project | University of Tennessee Foundation | SCORE | $25,000 |
College of Social Work |
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| Cunningham, Maryanne | Transform Program Services | Harmony Family Center | HHS – ACF – Administration for Children and Families | $100,000 |
| Daugherty, Linda | Indoor Ag Survey Support | Electric Power Research Institute | $13,255 | |
Research Centers & Institutes |
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| Riedinger, Leo | Patrick Caveney ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,052 | |
| Egami, Takeshi | vLocal Structure by Neutron Diffraction | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $3,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Asa Roy ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $8,341 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Deborah Weighill ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Holly Ray ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $28,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Robert Moseley, ESE Bredesen Center GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,730 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Benjamin Mohr GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $9,369 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | ESE Bredesen Center Eva Muntunga GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,053 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bresedesen Center ESE Artem Maksov GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $14,052 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE Eric Muckley GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $20,378 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Jayde Aufrecht, Bredesen Center ESE GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $1,742 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | David Garcia Bredesen Center ESE GRA | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $2,533 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Lauren Riley | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $53,720 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Hoi Ho GRA Bredesen Center ESE | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $40,229 | |
| Crosby, Lonnie | Machine Learning & Data Visualization – Senter | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $6,000 | |
| Peterson, Gregory | XSEDE 2.0: Integrating, Enabling and Enhancing National Cyberinfrastructure with Expanding Community Involvement | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $934,268 |
| Sankaran, Ramanan | High Fidelity Combustion Simulation Software and Model Development for Emissions Predictions | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | $60,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Jonathon Romero | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $10,000 | |
| Simpson, Michael | Impact of climate change drivers on virome-microbiome-plant host dynamics in relation to N and C cycling | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $3,500 | |
| Glasby, Ryan | Code Development and Testing on Classified CFD Problems | Centrus Energy Corporation | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $40,000 |
| Khomami, Bamin | Polymer Synthesis and Characterization | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $16,488 | |
| Ragauskas, Arthur | ABBA – Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts with AVAP | American Process, Inc | DOE – EERE – The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy | $104,988 |
| Hall, Howard | UTK support for Advancement of INS/CTR’s Partnership for Nuclear Security program | DOS – US Department of State | $45,918 | |
| Rack, Philip | Advanced Focused Ion Beam Induced Nanomachining Simulation | Intel Corporation | $164,696 | |
| Crosby, Lonnie | Computational Research and Development Program-Mitchell-FY18 | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $13,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Michelle Halsted | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $3,526 | |
| Zhou, Haidong | Neutron Scattering Studies of Spin – 1/2 Quantum Antiferromagnets with Strong Quantum Spin Fluctuations | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $48,000 | |
| Riedinger, Leo | Bredesen Center ESE GRA Katelyn Bennett | DOE – ORNL – UT-Battelle – Oak Ridge National Laboratory | $23,581 | |
| Fefferman, Nina | Predicting the evolution of vector-borne disease dynamics in a changing world | Smithsonian Institute | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $358,010 |
| Bishop, Pamela | Increasing STEM Education Retention with Intrusive Advising and Learning (I-SERIAL) | Fisk University | US – NSF – National Science Foundation | $11,328 |
UT Space Institute |
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| Schmisseur, John | A Systematic Characterization of the Structure and Dynamics of Transitional Shock/Boundary Layer Interactions | DOD – Navy – ONR – Office of Naval Research | $181,533 | |
| Kreth, Phillip | AFRL/RQHX Corner Flow Experimental Support | DOD – Air Force – AFRL – Air Force Research Laboratory | $39,000 | |
Other |
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| Nobles, Robert | Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation | Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $1,335,802 |
| Nobles, Robert | Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation | Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp. | DOE – US Dept. of Energy | $1,026,531 |