Dr. Victor Bumphus (Social, Cultural & Justice Studies) has received $33,000 from the International Association of Chiefs of Police for the project entitled, “Service, Support & Justice:\u00a0 A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims Technical Assistance.”<\/p>\n
Dr. Hill Craddock (Biology, Geology & Environmental Science) has received $5,230 from The American Chestnut Foundation for the project entitled, “Conservation and Collection of Castanea dentata<\/em> Germplasm in the South.”<\/p>\n Dr. Eric Hungenberg (Health & Human Performance) has received $25,709 from Triple Crown Sports for the project entitled, “Service Quality Analysis and Economic Impact Research Projects.”<\/p>\n Drs. Kidambi Sreenivas, James Newman (Mechanical Engineering), and Dr. Craig Tanis (Computer Science & Engineering) have received $60,244 for computational research efforts.<\/p>\n Dr. Jennifer Boyd (Biology, Geology & Environmental Science) has requested a supplemental grant of $7,666 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “RUI: Collaborative Research: Reasons for Rarity? Exploring Acclimatory and Adaptive Constraints to Commonness.”<\/p>\n Dr. Lucien Ellington and Mr. Jeffrey Melnik (Asia Program) have requested $83,597 from the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. for the project entitled, “Education About Asia Journal 2019<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Drs. David Giles, Francesca Leasi, Margaret Kovach, Henry Spratt (Biology, Geology & Environmental Science), Drs. Han Jung Park, Jisook Kim, Wang Yong Yang, Titus Albu (Chemistry & Physics), and Dr. Ethan Carver (Vice Chancellor for Research) have requested $217,630 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “MRI: Acquisition of an All-in-One Fluorescence Microscope for Research, Training, and Teaching.”<\/p>\n Drs. Katharine Kemplin & Jenny Holcombe (School of Nursing) have requested $152,014 from the Department of Defense for the project entitled, “UMED Defib.”<\/p>\n Drs. Yu Liang, Dalei Wu (Computer Science & Engineering), Dr. Zibin Guo (Social, Cultural & Justice Studies), Dr. Nancy Fell (Physical Therapy), Dr. Amanda Clark (Psychology), and Dr. Anthony Skjellum (SimCenter) have requested $981,634 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “SCH: INT: RUI: VIGOR – A Virtual, Individualized and Generative\u00a0 Orchestrator for Rehabilitation.”<\/p>\n Drs. T. Daniel Loveless & Donald Reising (Electrical Engineering) have requested $199,771 from the Office of Naval Research for the project entitled, “Fault-Tolerant Design Through Ionizing Radiation Effects Spectroscopy and Intelligent Control.”<\/p>\n Ms. Laurie Melnik, Angela Dittmar, Dr. Joel Baxley (Southeast Center for Education in the Arts), and Ms. Rachel Fleming (Library) have requested $10,000 from the Tennessee Arts Commission for the project entitled, “Arts Learning Lab: Project REAL (Rural Educators for Arts Learning).”<\/p>\n Dr. Soubantika Palchoudhury (Civil & Chemical Engineering) and Dr. Abdollah Arabshahi (SimCenter) have requested $311,732 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “Coupled Computational and Experimental Approach to Understand the Flow of Nanodrugs.”<\/p>\n Dr. Eleni Panagiotou (Mathematics) has requested $5,000 from Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the project entitled, “ORAU POWE: A study of the effects of polymer entanglement and polymer architecture on material properties.”<\/p>\n Dr. Jared Pienkos (Chemistry & Physics) has requested $5,000 from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for the project entitled, “Redox-Active Rare-Earth Binding Agents.”<\/p>\n Drs. Amber Roache, Priscilla Simms-Roberson, and Jenny Holcombe (School of Nursing) have requested $2,729,974 from the Health Resources and Services Administration for the project entitled, “ANEW – Clinical-Academic Network for Developing Leaders (CANDL).”<\/p>\n Dr. Mina Sartipi (CUIP), Dr. Chandra Ward (Social, Cultural & Justice Studies), Dr. Reinhold Mann (Vice Chancellor for Research), Dr. Kidambi Sreenivas (Mechanical Engineering), and Dr. Bento Lobo (Finance & Economics) have submitted a preliminary proposal through the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “NSF Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Connected Infrastructures in Sustainable Urban Environments (CONNECT).”<\/p>\n Dr. Anthony Skjellum (SimCenter) has requested $287,945 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “CICI: RDP: Contracts and Distributed Ledgers to Enforce Research Data Compliance.”<\/p>\n Dr. Anthony Skjellum (SimCenter) and Dr. Craig Tanis (Computer Science & Engineering) have requested $450,096 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “SPX: Collaborative Research: Intelligent Communication Fabrics to Facilitate Extreme Scale Computing.”<\/p>\n Dr. Anthony Skjellum (SimCenter), Dr. Farah Kandah (Computer Science & Engineering), Dr. Mina Sartipi (CUIP), Dr. Hope Klug (Biology, Geology & Environmental Science), and Dr. Eleni Panagiotou (Mathematics) have requested $921,109 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “MRI: Acquisition: A Research-as-a-Service (RaaS)-based Private Cloud for Innovative Science and Engineering.”<\/p>\n Mr. Takeo Suzuki (International Education) and Dr. Robert Dooley (College of Business) have requested $176,803 from the FHI 360 for the project entitled, “Studies of the U.S. Institutes (SUSI) program.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations! The following UTC Faculty and Staff have attracted $124,183 in external grant and contract awards: Dr. Victor Bumphus (Social, Cultural & Justice Studies) has received $33,000 from the International Association of Chiefs of Police for the project entitled, “Service, Support & Justice:\u00a0 A Strategy to Enhance Law Enforcement Response to Victims Technical Assistance.” Dr.… <\/p>\nGood Luck!
\nThe following UTC faculty and staff members submitted proposals for the potential to generate over $6,539,971 in external funding, if awarded:<\/h4>\n