Category: Research

The Office of Research’s annual report for the 2019-2020 fiscal year is now available online at https://www.tntech.edu/research/reports/annual-reports.php. For more information, contact the Office of Research at research@tntech.edu.

The following individuals earned externally funded awards last month:

• Jeff Boles (PI) and Jeremy Wendt (Co-PI): National Science Foundation

 

• Adam Holley (PI): National Science Foundation

 

• Martha Kosa (PI): Private Agency

 

• Satish Mahajan (PI): Oak Ridge National Lab

 

• Ambareen Siraj (PI): Private Agency

 

• Daniel VandenBerge (PI): Private Agency

 

Liqun Zhang (PI): Private Agency

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

The following individuals earned externally funded awards last month:

• Ali Alouani (PI): Tennessee Valley Authority

 

• Sakir Ayik (PI): U.S. Dept. of Energy

 

• Sheikh Ghafoor (PI): Oak Ridge National Lab

 

• John Gunderson (PI): U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (via Middle Tennessee State University)

 

• Martha Howard (PI): Private Funder

 

• Muhammad Ismail (PI): Private Funder

 

• Alfred Kalyanapu (PI) and Tania Datta (Co-PI): U.S. Geological Survey (via University of Tennessee – Tennessee Water Resource Research Center Program)

 

• Alfred Kalyanapu (PI) and Sheikh Ghafoor (Co-PI): Oak Ridge National Lab

 

• Duckbong Kim (PI): Private Funder

 

• Mohamed Mahmoud (PI): Private Funder (two awards)

 

• Mohamed Mahmoud (PI) and Muhammad Ismail (Co-PI): Private Funder

 

• Justin Murdock (PI) and Robert Brown (Co-PI): U.S. Geological Survey (via University of Tennessee – Tennessee Water Resource Research Center Program)

 

• Mustafa Rajabali (PI): U.S. Dept. of Energy

 

• Tom Timmerman (PI): Tennessee Small Business Development Center (two awards)

 

• Ahmad Vaselbehagh (PI): Private Funder

 

Chris Wilson (PI): Tennessee Department of Education

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

The Office of Research provides resources and offers services, guidance, and training in an effort to promote, support, and facilitate research and creative activities at Tennessee Tech. We would like your feedback via an online survey to determine how we can better serve the needs of faculty and staff on campus. Efforts have been made to ensure anonymity of respondents, and responses are completely anonymous unless you chose to add personally identifiable information to a comment. Please go to the link below to complete the short survey by May 27. Your feedback is appreciated! 

https://tntech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8wc132BA4FCLn7f 

If you have any questions or have difficulty accessing the survey, please contact Jamie Murdock (jlmurdock@tntech.edu).

 

The following individuals earned externally funded awards last month:

• Carla Hurt (PI) and Robert Paine (Co-PI): Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries

 

• Karen Lykins (PI): Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration

 

• Kevin Liska (PI): Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (Tennessee Highway Safety Office)

 

• Kevin Liska (PI) and Edwin Baidoo (Co-PI): Tennessee Department of Health

 

• Jennifer Meadows (PI): Battelle Memorial Institute

 

Mark Rogers (PI): United States Fish and Wildlife Service

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

The winners and proceedings from this year’s Research and Creative Inquiry Day are now available online at https://www.tntech.edu/research/research-day/index.php. Just as the entire campus was adapting to conditions surrounding COVID-19, the 2020 Research and Creative Inquiry Day event was modified from its usual in-person format to a digital one this year. The digital format allowed students to still be able to showcase their research by submitting a digital poster or paper that was judged online. Of the 222 abstracts originally received, 184 digital posters/papers were submitted for judging. Also special this year were three creative media inquiry projects developed in the Social Problems (SOC 1650) class taught by Dr. Ada Haynes, Professor of Sociology, during the Fall 2019 semester. The videos from those projects can be found on the event web page. The Office of Research congratulates the winners and sincerely thanks everyone who contributed to making this event so successful despite the unusual circumstances.