The following is a list of recipients for the 2017 Summer Graduate Research Assistantships funded by the UT Knoxville Office of Research and Engagement’s SARIF program. Selected faculty projects will receive $3,600 in support of student stipends for work completed during the summer 2017. Click here to view 2016 recipients.
Faculty Mentor |
Student’s Name |
Department |
College |
Project Title |
| Hollenbach, Kandace | Allen, Christian | Anthropology | Arts & Sciences | Identifying the Effects of English Contact on Overhill Cherokee Communities: A Comparative Analysis and Methodological Approach to Foodways Datasets |
| Roy, Sharani | Becker, Andrea | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Developing Dynamical Models of Molecular Junctions |
| Fouts, Hillary N. | Broach, Dallas | Child and Family Studies | CEHHS | A Bio-Cultural Perspective of Parenting and Environmental Risk among the Gamo People in Southern Ethiopia |
| McCracken, Gary | Dreyer, Jessica | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Arts & Sciences | Ontogenetic development of Mexican free-tailed bat pup isolation call |
| Kelley, Eric | Farley, Ryan | Finance | HCB | Sifting through the shards: Evidence on the impacts of market fragmentation on market quality |
| Brott, Pamelia | Farrell, Isabel | Educational Psychology and Counseling | CEHHS | School Counselors’ Experiences with and Perceptions of Students Who are Refugees |
| Olson, Michael | Fritzlen, Katherine | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | Long-Term Attitude Maintenance Through Evaluative Conditioning |
| McCord, Rachel Patton | Golloshi, Rosela | Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology | Arts & Sciences | Squeezing information out of cancer cell genome organization |
| Alexandre, Gladys | Gullett, Jessica | Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology | Arts & Sciences | TMX: A potential new drug target in the battle against antibiotic resistance |
| Issa, Bernard | Hernanz, Alfonso | Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures | Arts & Sciences | The effects of aural input enhancement on second language speech processing |
| Munoz, Isabel Solange | Hinger, Bradley | Geography | Arts & Sciences | Regional Narratives and Racism Redacted |
| Palominio, Angel | Jedari, Cyrus | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Engineering | New Method for Predicting Flow Potential of Fine Coal Refuse Impoundments |
| Lim, Heejin | Jordan, Kenneth | Retail Hospitality & Tourism Management | CEHHS | Development of Omni-Channel Branding Strategy for Local Producers: Application of the Self- System Process Model |
| Johnston, Steven | Kumar, Umesh | Physics & Astronomy | Arts & Sciences | Changes in the electronic structure of rare-earth nickelates observed across the Metal-to-Insulator Transition using soft resonant inelastic x-ray scattering |
| Emery, Joshua | Martin, Audrey | Earth & Planetary Sciences | Arts & Sciences | Surface Mineralogy of Trojan Asteroids: Amorphous Silicate Emissivity Features in the Thermal IR |
| Gu, Gong | Mohsin, Ali | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Engineering | A Prototype Two-Dimensional Macromolecule for Mono-Molecular Electronics |
| Collins-Elliott, Stephen | Noyes, Emily | Classics | Arts & Sciences | Common ware of the Loukkos Valley: a preliminary typology and distribution analysis of courseware in the countryside of the Roman city of Lixus |
| Bohon, Stephanie | Ortiz, Ruben | Sociology | Arts & Sciences | Structural Conditions in Police-Involved Killing |
| Xue, Ziling | Pham, Peter | Chemistry | Arts & Sciences | Controlled Release of Persulfate for Environmental Remediation |
| Schulze, Tim | Razayqat, Hamza | Mathematics | Arts & Sciences | Controlled Release of Persulfate for Environmental Remediation |
| Latham, Jacob | Roesch, Laura | History | Arts & Sciences | Public Ceremony, Episcopal Authority, and the Christianization of Rome in Late Antiquity (ca. 300-700 CE) |
| Islam, Syed | Shamsir, Samira | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | Engineering | Challenges of Power Electronics in Utility Applications: Gallium Nitride Based Solution |
| Chvala, Ondrej | Singh, Vikram | Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Enhanced Non-Linear Dynamic Model of the Molten Salt Reator Experiment |
| Grzanka, Patrick | Spengler, Elliott | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | The Impact of the “Counseling Discrimination Law” and Other Potential Barriers to Mental Health Services-Seeking among LGBT+ Individuals in Tennessee |
| Bach, Wendy | Zydiel, Daniel | Law | Law | Study of the Prosecution of Women in Tennessee for In-Utero Opiate Transmission |