Congratulations!
The following UTC Faculty and Staff have attracted $305,250 in external grant and contract awards:
Dr. Dawn Ford and Emma Sampson (Health & Human Performance), in collaboration with the City of Chattanooga, have received $14,263 from the Office of Minority Health for the project entitled, “UTC MPH Program Support of City of Chattanooga’s CARE Coalition.”
Dr. Ralph Hood and Matthew Durham (Psychology), in collaboration with the Universitat Bielefeld, have received $35,000 from the John Templeton Foundation for the project entitled, “Faith Development Longitudinal Study Part Three.”
Drs. Erkan Kaplanoglu and Ahad Nasab (Engineering Management & Technology) have received $5,000 from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation for the project entitled, “Wearable Device for Upper Extremity Essential Tremor.”
Dr. Daniel Loveless (Electrical Engineering) has received $172,943 from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as a subaward from a partner university, for the project entitled, “Fundamental Research in Radiation Effects under The IIRM Alliance.”
Dr. Hong Qin (Computer Science & Engineering) has been named a, “AIM-AHEAD Research Fellowship Institutional Mentor” by the University of North Texas Health Science Center.
Dr. Mina Sartipi (CUIP) has requested and received $68,044 from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the project entitled, “ORNL Joint Faculty Appointment.”
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The following UTC faculty and staff members submitted proposals for the potential to generate over $4,464,470 in external funding, if awarded:
Dr. Tian Li (Chemistry & Physics), in collaboration with the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, has submitted a preliminary proposal to the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “Security of Quantum Sensors in an Industrial Network.”
Dr. Tian Li (Chemistry & Physics), Dr. Tony Skjellum (SimCenter), and Dr. Donald Reising (Electrical Engineering) have submitted a preliminary proposal to the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Sensing Across Entanglement Distributed Quantum Networks.”
Dr. Daniel Loveless (Electrical Engineering), in collaboration with Nimbis Services, Inc., has requested $148,000 from the Missile Defense Agency for the project entitled, “Foundry Assurance Modeling & Experiments for Radiation Hardened (FAME-RH) Applications.”
Charles Mix and Nyssa Hunt (IGTLab) have requested $8,058 from Tennessee Valley Authority for the project entitled, “Tennessee RiverLine GAP Analysis.”
Dr. Hong Qin (Computer Science & Engineering) has requested $448,888 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “MODULUS: Uncovering Driving Genes for Cell Fate Determination in Cellular Aging.”
Dr. Donald Reising (Electrical Engineering) has requested $99,973 from Tennessee Valley Authority for the project entitled, “Learning from Power Signals: Integration & Deployment.”
Dr. Mina Sartipi, Austin Harris, and Dr. Osama Osman (CUIP) have requested $1,135,668 from the Federal Highway Administration for the project entitled, “Advanced Artificial Intelligence Research for Equitable Safety of Vulnerable Road Users.”
Drs. Tony Skjellum and David Walker (SimCenter), in collaboration with four other universities, have requested $1,393,191 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “Frameworks: Next-Generation Explicit Parallel Programming Middleware for Better Performance, Reproducibility, and Interoperability on Heterogeneous Platforms.”
Drs. Tony Skjellum and David Walker (SimCenter), in collaboration with Northeastern University, have requested $596,976 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “SHF: CNS: Medium: A Paravirtualized Architecture for MPI and Enhanced HPC Capabilities.”
Drs. Tony Skjellum and David Walker (SimCenter), in collaboration with Boston University, have requested $29,9087 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “SHF: Small: ACiS: Application Control and Complex Processing in the Switch Fabric.”
Dr. Tony Skjellum, Dr. Sandra Affare (SimCenter), Dr. Jose Barbosa (Biology, Geology, & Environmental Science), and Dr. Chandra Ward (Sociology) have requested $24,795 from the American Water Charitable Foundation for the project entitled, “Developing a Healthier Community with STEM-Education & Agricultural Projects.”
Rachel Waldrop (Art) has requested $5,000 from Tri-Star Arts for the project entitled, “As it Was Give(n) To Me: Stacy Kranitz.”
Dr. Yingfeng Wang (Computer Science & Engineering), in collaboration with the University of North Texas, has requested $304,834 from the National Science Foundation for the project entitled, “RUI: A Comprehensive Computational Platform for Peptide and Protein Identification.”