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1st Quarterly Research Report for FY 2017

Cumulative forJuly 1 - September 30, 2016

Office of Research & EngagementUniversity of Tennessee

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1st Quarterly Research Report • FY 2017Cumulative: July 1 - September 30, 2016

Office of Research & Engagement • University of Tennessee

During the first quarter of FY17, the University of Tennesse, Knoxville Department of Psychology received a five-year award for $2,887,974 from the National Science Foundation for a collaborative research project under the direction of Erin Hardin, professor and associate head of psychology, and co-investigators Elisabeth Schussler and Melinda Gibbons, along with Timothy Ezzell and Marisa Moazen. ASPIRE, or Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education, is an undergraduate scholarship program available to Appalachian high school seniors with financial need who seek to attend UT.

Additionally, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences received a Department of Energy award for $2.4 million over two and a half years to develop a new type of microgrid with a corresponding controller. This project is led by Fred Wang, and co-investigators Leon Tolbert and Yilu Liu.

The Office of Research and Engagement is continually looking at ways to foster and support research activities so if you have any concerns or suggestions please let me know.

Jean Mercer Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Director of Sponsored Programs

A Message from the AVCR



Proposals, Awards, and Expenditures

Notes1. HERD – Higher Education Research and Development Survey, the successor to the Survey of Research and

Development Expenditures at Universities and Colleges.

2. Other Colleges, Centers or Institutes – This field captures any research proposal, award, and expenditure not included in the categories above. Not all research expenditures in this category have a corresponding proposal/award.

3. The Number of Awards Received represents the cumulative number of funding award increments. One project may receive multiple funding awards.

* N/C - Not Calculable

College/Center/ Institute Proposals Submitted Awards Received

Estimated Total Research

Expenditures (HERD1)

No.% No. Incr. Over FY 15

Amount Requested

% $ Incr. Over FY 15 No.³

% No. Incr. Over FY 15

Amount Received

% $ Incr. Over FY 15

Amount Expended

% $ Incr. Over FY 15

College of Architecture and Design 0 -100.0% $0 -100.0% 0 -100.0% $0 -100.0% $109,778 -5.7%

College of Arts and Sciences 136 18.3% $32,150,266 -10.4% 107 -13.0% $13,327,821 10.7% $10,998,159 24.6%

Haslam College of Business 6 -45.5% $492,495 -79.0% 11 22.2% $1,170,682 1.5% $1,920,517 -5.7%

College of Communication and Information 8 -11.1% $1,632,974 -56.6% 3 -57.1% $728,078 -14.1% $403,140 -14.3%

College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences 35 20.7% $16,187,948 -0.3% 13 -43.5% $3,314,909 -38.7% $896,683 -16.2%

Tickle College of Engineering 158 -11.2% $44,651,927 -11.5% 165 -9.3% $25,164,732 10.6% $18,504,221 7.4%

College of Law 1 N/C* $12,802 N/C* 0 N/C* $0 N/C* $9,309 49.1%

College of Nursing 5 66.7% $370,704 39.9% 2 0.0% $2,000 -98.3% $116,759 -43.9%

College of Social Work 10 66.7% $4,621,335 -6.6% 14 75.0% $1,939,223 65.3% $236,446 0.9%

Research Centers and Institutes 75 33.9% $11,623,117 80.5% 103 27.2% $5,932,510 14.8% $7,137,392 -14.7%

UT Space Institute 11 -26.7% $1,520,029 0.5% 10 -9.1% $1,093,993 103.1% $963,323 26.2%

Other² 4 33.3% $1,517,753 142.4% 11 83.3% $6,865,262 474.2% $1,144,409 20.7%

Total 449 5.2% $114,781,350 -6.3% 439 -3.3% $59,539,210 18.0% $42,440,136 5.4%



Top 20 Awards (by dollar value)Investigators

(Primary PI First)Award Admin Department

Project Title Sponsor Anticipated AmountPI Home Department

Eighmy, Thomas; Penumadu, Dayakar; Babu, Sudarsanam

Research admin Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI)

Collaborative Composite Solutions Corp/Dept. of Energy

$5,632,975Research admin; CEE; MABE

Tomsovic, Kevin; Tolbert, Leon; Li, Fangxing; Liu, Yilu; Wang, Fei; Chen, Chien-Fei

EECS ERC for Ultra-Wide Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network NSF $5,226,647

EECS; Center for Electric Power

Hardin, Erin; Schussler, Elisabeth; Gibbons, Melinda; Gardner, Denise; Ezzell, Timothy; Moazen, Marisa

PsychologyCollaborative Research: ASPIRE: Appalachian Students Promoting the Integration of Research in Education

NSF $2,887,974Psychology; EEB; Educ. Psych. & Couns.; OIRA ; Political science ; Research admin

Wang, Fei; Tolbert, Leon; Liu, Yilu

Center for Electric Power A Smart and Flexible Microgrid with a Low-cost Scalable Open-source Controller Dept. of Energy $2,400,000

EECS

Brewer, ErnestCAPS Outreach Center

Educational Opportunity Center Dept. of Education $2,326,014CAPS Outreach Center

Barrera Olivares, Francisco; Morrell-Falvey, Jennifer

BCMB Transmembrane peptides for targeting acidosis

HHS - National Institute of General Medical Sciences

$1,644,667BCMB

Mockus, Audris; Bradley, Randy; Bichescu, Bogdan; Zaretzki, Russell

EECS BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: IA: OSCAR - Open Source Supply Chains and Avoidance of Risk: An evidence based approach to improve FLOSS supply chains

NSF $1,300,000EECS; Marketing Supply Chain Mgmt; Statistics, Operations Mgmt

Hillyer, Sarah; Huffman, Ashleigh

Center for Sport, Peace & Society Better World: Empowering Global Change

Agents through Sports Department of State $1,030,000Admin-EHHS

Das, Maitreyi; Abel, StevenBCMB Cytokinetic events that promote

actomyosin ring constriction and septum formation

NSF $850,000BCMB; Chemical engineering

Peterson, Gregory; Rose, Garrett; Arel, Itamar; Qi, Hairong; Hazlewood, Victor

JICS MRI: Development of iSNARLD (Instrument for Situational Network Awareness for Real-time and Long-term Data)

NSF $822,120JICS; EECS



Top 20 Awards (Continued)

Investigators (Primary PI First)

Award Admin Department Project Title Sponsor Anticipated

AmountPI Home Department

Grzywacz, Robert; Heilbronn, Lawrence

Physics New high-resolution neutron detector for the studies of exotic nuclei - NEXT

DOE - National Nuclear Security Administration

$810,000Physics; Nuclear engineering

Donovan, David; Auxier, John

Nuclear engineering Ex-Situ Surface Characterization Studies and Boundary Plasma Diagnostic Development for DIII-D

DOE - Office of Science $750,738

Nuclear engineering

Rose, Garrett; Sarles, Stephen; Collier, Charles

EECS NCS-FO: Biomimetic membrane networks as adaptable neuromorphic computation circuits

US - NSF - National Science Foundation $669,763EECS; MABE

Coble, Jamie; Skutnik, Steven

Nuclear engineering Integrating Data Sources for Improved Safeguards and Accountancy of Electrochemical Fuel Reprocessing Streams

DOE - Office of Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Engineering University Program

$640,000Nuclear engineering

Grzywacz, RobertPhysics Support for Joint Institute for Nuclear

Physics and ApplicationsDOE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory $611,668

Physics

Taylor, Edward; Wagner, John; Higgins, Terry

CIRPC Utilization of Tennessee Workers' Compensation Data for Injury Surveillance and Prevention

HHS - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

$595,836CIRPC

Wirth, Brian; Khomami, Bamin

Nuclear engineering Advancing Understanding of Fission Gas Behavior in Nuclear Fuel through Leadership Class Computing

Dept. of Energy $540,000Nuclear engineering; Chemical engineering

Herault, Thomas

Dist Rsch Prof-EECS SHF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Toward Extreme Scale Fault-Tolerance: Exploration Methods, Comparative Studies and Decision Processes

NSF $530,000Dist Rsch Prof-EECS

Cunningham, Maryanne

Social Work research & pub svc

Signal Centers East CCR&R FY17

Signal Centers, Inc/HHS - Administration for Children and Families

$528,825Social Work research & pub svc

Smith, StevenLibrary

UT/ORNL Library Project DOE - Oak Ridge National Laboratory $526,437

Library



Please note that we have implemented two changes in the proposal count and amount calculations:

• We are no longer including Letters of Intent (preliminary proposals) in the proposal count/amount calculations.

• We are now including proposals with a status of ‘Withdrawn’. These are actual proposals that were withdrawn after submission.

The changes will be implemented for all standard reports FY17 forward. Data for previous years will also be reported according to the changes described. If you have any questions about the differences between previous reports and reports going forward, please contact Anna Banks or Nate Wagner with the ORE Research Informatics.

Proposal Calculations



Each Quarterly Research Summary is a fiscal year-to-date comparison.

Data depicting colleges and research centers and institutes are presented to show trends within each unit. Award and proposal data are pulled from Cayuse SP. Research expenditure data are pulled from IRIS.

To ensure consistency of the Office of Research and Engagement reports, all quarterly and annual report award selection is based on the Award Effective Date (beginning of project funding). The proposal selection is based on the Proposal Approval Date.

Award, proposal, and expenditure data include UT Knoxville, UTSI, and UWA.

There are occasionally variations in the numbers reported for each quarter as information is updated into Cayuse SP and IRIS on a daily basis. The data for this report were collected on 11/07/2016. The annual report will represent the final amounts for that fiscal year.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is an EEO/AA/Title VI/Title IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services. Quarterly Research Summary is published four times a year for the faculty and research staff of UT by the Office of Research & Engagement (1534 White Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996-1529). Contact: Erin Chapin ([email protected], 865-974-2187). This report is archived at http://research.utk.edu/category/reports

How Quarterly Research Summary Data are Derived

Quarterly data presented here are compiled for our annual report. Our ORE annual report typically includes research expenditures from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and UT Space Institute for a given fiscal year as reported to NSF. The research expenditures listed in Vol Vision 2020 reflect the Knoxville area, to include the UT Institute of Agriculture. This data is based on data published by NSF, typically from two years prior.

A Note About the Data

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