Nineteen graduate students will receive $3,600 stipends from UT’s Summer Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Fund managed by UT’s Office of Research and Engagement.
“Graduate students are a huge driver of research progress,” says Jennifer Webster, interim director of research development. “The Summer GRA Fund is an important internal mechanism for enabling student participation in scholarship and discovery, beyond what is possible through external funding sources. We’re pleased to support these projects in Summer 2021 and broaden graduate student involvement in research in a wide range of departments and colleges at UT Knoxville and the UT Institute of Agriculture.” Continue reading
MABE Assistant Professor Damiano Baccarella is one of 36 scientists and engineers across the country to be awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award. The award provides Baccarella with a three-year grant totaling $450,000 to fund his research proposal, “Quantification and Mitigation of the Thermochemical Non-Equilibrium in High-Enthalpy Hypersonic Wind Tunnels.”
Mid-career investigators now have a new source for external funding at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The first round of proposals are due February 1, 2021, and NSF anticipates funding up to $18 million via 35-45 awards.