Category: Research

Externally sponsored award winners from August:

• Alice Camuti, Alfred Kalyanapu (Co-PI), John Brackins (Co-PI): NSF (Graduate Research Fellowship Program)
• Julie Baker, Lisa Zagumny (Co-PI), Jeremy Wendt (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Education via TN Dept. of Education
• Steve Click and Shirin Noei (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
• Brad Cohen: USFWS via TWRA
• Ismail Fidan: NSF via Sommerset Community College
• Terry Guo and Allen MacKenzie (Co-PI): NSF
• Carla Hurt: NSF
• Kevin Liska: S. Small Business Administration Center via TN Small Business Development Centers via MTSU
• Jennifer Meadows: Battelle Memorial Institute
• Shirin Noei: S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
• Amanda Rosenberger: National Park Service
• Ambareen Siraj, Eric Brown (Co-PI), Akond Rahman (Co-PI), Denis Ulybyshev (Co-PI), Maanak Gupta (Co-PI): NSF
• Tom Timmerman: CARES Act Funding via TN Small Business Development CenterVisit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

• Aikens: S. Dept. Ag. (2); U.S. Dep. Commerce (2); U.S. Small Bus. Admin. Center/TN SBDC (MTSU)
• Cohen, Kissell: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA
• Cohen, Combs: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA
• Gentry: TN Arts Comm.
• Ghafoor: NSF via UT Chatt.
• Gotcher: TBR
• Howard: Putnam Co. School System; Private (2); TN Dept. Ed. (2); TN Dept. Intell. & Develop. Dis. (2)
• Howard, Callender: TN Dep. Ed. (2)
• Hurley, Hellman: TN Dep. Health
• Ismail: Qatar Nat. Res. Fund/TX A&M Univ.
• Kim: NSF (2); Priv. (3)
• Liska: TN Dept. Health
• Potter, Anthony, Moore: TBR
• Roberts: S. Dept. Energy
• Rogers, Ghafoor:
• Shannigrahi: NSF/Color. St. Univ.
• VandenBerge: TBR
• • Wheeler, Hurt: S. Dep. Inter./TWRA

  Zhang: ORNL

Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php for more information.

Externally sponsored award winners from June:

• • Mohammad Albakri: NSF via Virginia Tech
  • Mary Fornehed: National Institutes of Health via University of TN
  • Barbara Jared, Jason Hurley (Co-PI), and Kimberly Hanna (Co-PI): Appalachian Regional Commission
  • DuckBong Kim: Managing Institute and Joint Research Institute-Hanyang
  • Amanda Powell and Kevin Liska (Co-PI): TN Dept. of Health

    Ambareen Siraj and Eric Brown (Co-PI): NSF via Whatcom Community College

Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

Externally sponsored award winners from May:

• Sakir Ayik: S. Department of Energy
• Julie Baker: S. Department of Education via Tennessee Department of Education
• Maanak Gupta and Sheikh Ghafoor (Co-PI): National Science Foundation
• Mary Kidd, Kaitlyn Kidwell (Co-PI), Emma Mitchell (Co-PI), and Halle Ford (Co-PI): Private Funder
• Mustafa Rajabali: S. Department of Energy
• Rory Roberts: S. Department of Energy via HyperTech
• Daniel VandenBerge: Private Funder
• Fred Vondra and Ismail Fidan (Co-PI): Private Funder

Liqun Zhang: National Science Foundation via LiBama

Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

Externally sponsored award winners from April:

• Jesse Carrick: S. Department of Energy
• Steven Click and Shirin Noei (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Transportation via University of Florida
• Dennis Duncan and Michael Nattrass (Co-PI): S. Dept. of Agriculture via Middle TN State University
• Gail Gentry: Private Funder
• Kevin Liska: TN Dept. of Safety and Homeland Security
• Satish Mahajan: UCDD via Appalachian Regional Commission
• Jennifer Meadows: Battelle Memorial Institute
• Joseph Ojo: Office of Naval Research
• Mustafa Rajabali: NSF via University of Tennessee Knoxville

Amanda Rosenberger: two grants, one with the U.S. Geological Survey and TN Wildlife Resources Agency

Visit https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/grants-awarded.php.

A meet-and-greet session for faculty will follow Tech alum David Nicholas’s presentation this Thursday, April 29.  The presentation will be at 11 a.m. in Room 113 of the Stonecipher Lecture Hall (SLH), and the meet-and-greet will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Laboratory Science Commons Building, Room 3331.    The Office of Research and Economic Development and the Chemical Engineering Department are hosting the event.  Nicholas, CEO of Earth Science Laboratories in Rogers, Arkansas, will be discussing ESL’s research and development ventures.  ESL has found that a unique chemical composition accounted for many distinctive features of its products and is now the basis of the company’s rapidly growing technology platform.  ESL is exploring opportunities for collaborative research as the company sees many opportunities for the chemistry that are outside its founding expertise in water treatment.  For more information, contact Sandy Storie (sstorie@tntech.edu or 931-372-6756).

The 2021 Research and Creative Inquiry event has concluded, with 222 abstracts and 205 posters/papers submitted, representing more than 300 current students from 22 schools and departments. We appreciate the patience of the students, research advisors, and judges as we used a digital format again this year.

Links to the winners, the Proceedings with all submitted abstracts, recording of the award ceremony, and two creative media inquiry video projects developed in the Social Problems (SOC 1650) class taught by Ada Haynes, sociology professor, can all be found on the event website (https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day).

Many of the posters from the event are available for viewing by the campus community for the remainder of the spring semester.

The Proceedings of Student Research and Creative Inquiry Day, an online journal for those who agreed to their abstract and poster/paper being published, will be compiled in the coming weeks.  When it is ready, the link to the journal will be available on the event website.