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Download Excel file Knoxville-Area National Science Foundation Grants Ranked by Amount Awarded to Date Rank '16 Title Organization Phone Website Awarded to date Award type Start-end date1 Description Program manager Principal investigator Investigators 1 A National Institute for Computational Sciences to Provide Leading-Edge Computational Support for Breakthrough Science and Engineering Research University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $84,527,695 Cooperative Oct 1, '07-Sep 30, '16 In partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UT will operate a sequence of high-performance computational resources on behalf of the science and engineering research community Edward Walker Thomas Zacharia 2 Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage using Outreach, Research and Education (TN-SCORE) University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $20,000,000 Cooperative Aug 15, '10-Jul 31, '16 Energy, research & education in the areas of solar capture and conversion, fuel cells, batteries, nanostructures & nanomaterials for enhancing energy efficiency. Involves nine geographically distributed colleges & universities in Tennessee, strengthens collaborations between academic institutions and Oak Ridge National Laboratory Uma D. Venkateswaran David Millhorn Thomas Zawodzinski John Hopkins Gregory Sedrick Barry Bruce Sandra Rosenthal Stacey Patterson 3 NSF Engineering Research Center for Ultra-wide-area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Network University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $17,474,061 Cooperative Aug 15, '11-Jul 31, '18 Develop transforming technologies to address the needs of an aging power grid infrastructure to allow reliable operation of the electric transmission infrastructure over vast distances and over multiple time scales Carmina Londono Kevin Tomsovic Yilu Liu Joe Chow Ali Abur Gregory Murphy 4 NIMBioS: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $12,052,200 Cooperative Sep 1, '13-Aug 31, '18 Establishes a center to foster research & education at the interface of mathematical and biological sciences to address fundamental and applied biological questions while advancing mathematical sciences and fostering development of transdisciplinary researchers Samuel M. Scheiner Louis Gross 5 IRNC: ProNet: GLORIAD University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $5,604,251 Cooperative Aug 1, '10-Apr 30, '16 Provide cyberinfrascture development and encourage scientific collaboration in cooperative partnership between the U.S., Russia, Korea, China, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Canada, Hong Kong, and developing new partnerships with Egypt, India, Singapore and Vietnam Kevin L. Thompson Greg Cole Jun Li Jerome Sobieski Dongkyun Kim Donald Riley 6 NSF/DOE Public Access Repository Services for Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum, "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research" Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information P.O. Box 62 Oak Ridge,TN 37831 865-576-1188 osti.gov $2,964,000 Interagency Aug 1, '14-Jul 31, '16 N/A Amy Friedlander Brian Hitson 7 TEACH/Here University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $2,441,769 Continuing grant Sep 1, '10-Aug 31, '17 Partnership between UT, the Public Education Foundation, Knox Co. Schools, Hamilton Co. Schools for recruiting and training exceptional and effective mathematics and science teachers through an alternative pathway to teach in the districts' high-need schools Keith Sverdrup Susan Benner Stuart Elston Daniel Challener 8 SI2-SSI: Collaborative Proposal: Performance Application Programming Interface for Extreme-Scale Environments (PAPI-EX) University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $2,126,446 Standard grant Sep 1, '15-Aug 31, '19 Addresses need for performance optimization of High Performance Computing systems through integrating critical performance application programming interface enhancements that flow from research investments by government and industry Daniel Katz Jack Dongarra Anthony Danalis Heike Jagode 9 Research and Instructional Strategies for Engineering Retention - RISER University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $2,000,000 Continuing grant Jul 1, '11-Jun 30, '17 Program of interventions designed to increase the the first- to second-year retention rate of two at-risk, first-year engineering student populations: those that do not qualify for first-year engineering fundamentals due to low scores on the ACT math test and on the institution's math placement test, and women in the honors program Nicole Bennett Claudia Rawn Richard Bennett Christopher Pionke Veerle Keppens Margaret Russell 10 Dimensions: Collaborative Research: Genetic, Phylogenetic, and Functional Microbial Diversity In Permanently Frozen Aquatic Sediments Over Geological Time University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $1,551,143 Standard grant Aug 15, '14-Jul 31, '19 A study of microbial communities in Siberian permafrost, the oldest known permafrost sediments in the Northern Hemisphere, to determine how biological communities respond to large changes in the environment Douglas Levey Tatiana Vishnivetskaya Karen Lloyd Susan Pfiffner Alice Layton Benjamin Fitzpatrick 11 MRI: Development of and Broad-Based Materials Research with the Next Generation Nanomechanical Testing Laboratory University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $1,542,631 Standard grant Aug 15, '14-Jul 31, '19 Research partners from nine academic institutions and a national laboratory are developing the next generation nanomechanical testing laboratory and using it to advance understanding of materials for applications such as advanced batteries, welding, micro-electro-mechanical systems, additive manufacturing, protective ceramic coatings, space power systems and two-dimensional sheet structures Leonard Spinu George Pharr Erik Herbert Warren Oliver 12 SI2-SSI: Collaborative Research: Sustained Innovation for Linear Algebra Software (SILAS) University of Tennessee 1 Circle Park Knoxville,TN 37996 865-974-3466 utk.edu $1,427,995 Continuing grant Oct 1, '13-Sep 30, '16 Updates two of the most widely used numerical libraries in the history of Computational Science and Engineering, LAPACK and ScaLAPACK, enhancing them and making them more resistant to failure for future innovations in processor architecture and system design Daniel Katz Jack Dongarra TOTAL $153,712,191 1 Award type: Cooperative agreement refers to a support mechanism used when there will be substantial Federal scientific or programmaticinvolvement. An interagency agreement refers to a request and acceptance for goods or services between DoD components or between a DoD component and a Non-DoD federal agency Source: National Science Foundation website; active grants in 2015. Information obtained on Jan. 11, 2016. If you notice an error or omission, please contact Angela Akers at 865-342-6424 or lists@knoxvillebiz.com.