The following is a list of recipients for the 2016 Summer Graduate Research Assistantships funded by the UT Knoxville Office of Research and Economic Development’s SARIF program. Selected faculty projects will receive $3,600 in support of student stipends for work completed during the summer 2016. Click here to view 2015 recipients.
| Faculty Mentor | Student’s Name | Department | College | Project Title |
| Allington, Richard | Savitz, Rachelle | TPTE | CEHHS | Eliminating the Summer Reading Gap |
| Brown, Jason S. | Shorey, Joshua | School of Art | Arts & Sciences | Analog to digital – designing a new studio production methodology |
| Bruce, Barry D | Li, Meng | Biochemistry and Cellual and Molecular Biology | Arts & Sciences | Optimization of Cyanobacteria Culture Using Large Scale Photobioreactors for Bioenergy Production and Carbon Sequestration |
| Cabana, Graciela | West, Frankie | Anthropology | Arts & Sciences | Do biological distances reflect genetic distance? A comparison of skeletal morphological and genetic distances in humans |
| Coe, Dawn | Schwartz, Ashlyn | Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport Studies | CEHHS | Playground and Garden Physical Activity Levels and Behaviors in Young Children |
| Counce, Robert M | Dixon, Jessica Marie | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering | Engineering | A Green-Engineering Process for Separation of 6Li from 7Li |
| Cunningham, Lauren | Castonguay, John ‘Ja | Accounting and Information Management | Business | Small Audit Firm Mergers and Acquisitions: Market Level Implications and the Effect on Competition |
| Dodds, George | Clark, Lindsey Elizabe | Architecture | Architecture & Design | Text Translation of Hermann Muthesius’s Landhaus und Garten |
| Donohoe, Dallas | Han, Anna | Nutrition | CEHHS | How Cancer Cells Utilize Butyrate Differently and Why That’s Important |
| Feller, Daniel | Menarchek, Matthew | History | Arts & Sciences | The Papers of Andrew Jackson |
| Freeberg, Ernest | Hodge, Josh | History | Arts & Sciences | Life and Legacy of Cas Walker |
| Ganusov, Vitaly | Johnson, Elizabeth | Microbiology | Arts & Sciences | Creating an epistatic HIV fitness map from viral population dynamics data |
| Held, Mary | McCabe, Jeff Maurice | Social Work | Social Work | Study of Latino Immigrant Strengths, Challenge, and Needs: Setting a Research Agenda |
| Henry, Nancy | Clymer, Allison | English | Arts & Sciences | The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot |
| Jabson, Jennifer M | Patterson, Joanne | Department of Public Health | CEHHS | Healthcare providers’ knowledge and attitudes about sexual and gender minority patients health needs, and culturally competent care in rural healthcare settings |
| Jaekel, Julia | Moran, Hayley Brooke | Child & Family Studies | CEHHS | Baby wearing and skin-to-skin (‘kangaroo’) care amount African refugee mothers of preterm infants |
| Kalas, Gregor | LoPiano Antonio | Architecture | Architecture | Defining an Annex to the Imperial Palace of Rome |
| Lang, Maik | O’Quinn, Eric | Nuclear Engineering | Engineering | Investigating the Nature of Defect Behavior and Disorder in Pyrocholore and Related Complex Oxides |
| Ma, Z. John | Elhassan, Ammar | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Engineering | ASR effects on stressed-confined concrete nuclear thick structures |
| Nebenfuehr, Andreas | Ryan, Jennifer | Biochemistry and Cellual and Molecular Biology | Arts & Sciences | Specificity or redundancy? Understanding the impact of myosins on organelle movement and polarized cell growth in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| Owens, Gina | Thomas, Elizabeth | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | Veterans’ Mental Health |
| Radice, Joy | Moore, Brittny | Law | Law | A Second Chance: The State of Expungement Statutes in the United States |
| Reynolds, Greg D. | Roth, Kelly | Psychology | Arts & Sciences | UT Developmental Cogitative Neurosciences Laboratory |
| Schilling, Edward | Lampley, Jayne | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Arts & Sciences | Analysis of an Evolutionary Radiation in Trillium |
| Sharma, Madhuri | Koh, Donghee | Geography | Arts & Sciences | Intra-urban assimilation of Koreans: Urban ecology models, neighborhood quality and social network in twentieth century America |
| Stanley, Thomas Mark | Buntemeyer, Lauren | Architecture | Architecture & Design | Manhattan Project 2.0: Machines Species |