The FY13 competitive budget process has been completed for all previously supported as well as newly proposed organized research units (ORUs) who sought campus-level funding support from the Vice Chancellor for Research and Engagement.
Eighteen previously funded ORUs, four Joint Institutes, and six previously unfunded ORUs submitted and presented their proposals in a public forum on March 5th and 6th, 2012. There were many worthy proposals. However, $3.2 million in funding was available to allocate for $5.1 million in requests. Based on evaluation of the proposals, presentations, past performance, future potential, and other sources of support, sixteen previously funded ORUs, four Joint Institutes, and six ORUs receiving funding for the first time, will receive funding in FY13.
All funding provided is considered “one-time one-year” funding for the sole purpose of fostering the mission and objectives of the ORU as defined in the proposal. Continued, on-going funding is not guaranteed. For details of FY13 allocations, download the ORU FY13 Funding Summary (PDF).
Proposals and Funding Information
The following ORUs submitted funding proposals for FY13. The proposals submitted may be viewed by clicking on the ORU name and are accessible only by UT Knoxville faculty and staff.
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ORUs Newly Funded for FY13
- Center on Deafness (COD)
- Cold Spallation Target Concept Development (CST)
- Design/Build/Evaluate Initiative (DBEI)
- Metabolic Translational Research Initiative (MTRI)
- Tennessee Crystal Synthesis Initiative (TCSI)
- Water Resources Research Center (WRRC)
ORUs with Continued Funding for FY13
- Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEB)
- Center for Enhancing Education in Mathematics & Sciences (CEEMS)
- Center for Health Science Research (CHSR)
- Center for Information and Communication Studies (CICS)
- Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (CISML)
- Center for Information Technology Research (CITR)
- Center for Public Health (CPH)
- Center for the Study of Youth and Political Conflict (CSYPC)
- Center for the Study of Social Justice (CSSJ)
- Health Information Technology & Simulation Laboratory (HITSL)
- Initiative for Quaternary Paleoclimate Research (IQPR)
- Korn Learning, Assessment, and Social Skills (KLASS) Center
- Microbiology Across Campuses Educational and Research Venture (M-CERV)
- Plant Research Initiative (PRI)
- Risk, Health & Crisis Communication Research Unit (RHCC)
- Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center (SEERC)
Joint Institutes
- Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM)
- Joint Institute of Biological Sciences (JIBS)
- Joint Institute of Computational Sciences (JICS)
- Shull Wollan Center – a Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences
ORUs Not Receiving Funds for FY13
Five-Year Trend Analysis Charts
The charts presented here show five-year trends for currently funded UT Knoxville research centers and joint institutes (those not shown have been formed too recent to have a history). These files link to PDF documents accessible only by UTK faculty and staff.
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- Proposal Amounts by Fiscal Year
- Proposal Counts by Fiscal Year
- Award Amounts by Fiscal Year
- Award Counts by Fiscal Year
- Earned F & A by Fiscal Year
- F & A Earned Per Dollar of University Support
- Expenditure Amount by Fiscal Year
- Expenditures Per Dollar of University Support