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2022 Research Grants and Funding

Biological Sciences

July - Dr. Thomas Sutter, professor and W. Harry Feinstone Chair of Excellence in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded $215,250 from the National Institutes of Health for his project “A core transcription factor complex of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor.”

April - Dr. James Adelman awarded $118,272 from Virginia Tech with the National Institutes of Health.

April - Dr. Thomas Sutter awarded $215,250 from the National Institutes of Health.

Feb - Dr. Michael Kennedy, awarded $10,000 from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. 

Center for Advancement of Youth (CAYD: Socialwork) 

Feb - Dr. Gregory Washington, awarded $250,757 from the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis. 

Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) 

July - Dr. Chris Cramer, research professor in the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, was awarded $51,327 from the U.S. Geological Survey for his project “Coastal Plain Amplification and Hazard Model for the National Seismic Hazard Maps: Collaborative Research with University of Memphis, North Carolina State University.”

July - Dr. Christodoulos Kyriakopoulos, assistant professor in the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, was awarded $67,930 from the U.S. Geological Survey for his project “Characterizing earthquake rupture propagation during the 1811-12 New Madrid earthquakes using dynamic rupture model.”

July - Dr. Charles Langston, director and professor in the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, was awarded $91,790 from the U.S. Geological Survey for his project “Embayment Seismic Excitation Experiment 2022 (ESEE 2022).”

July - Dr. Mitchell Withers, associate research professor in the Center for Earthquake Research and Information, was awarded $154,194 from the U.S. Geological Survey for his project “Operation of the Mid-America Integrated Seismic Network 2020-2024-CERI.”

June - Dr. Eunseo Choi awarded $43,819 from the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources.

May - Dr. Thomas Goebel awarded $549,995 from the U.S. Department of Energy.

March - Dr. Thomas Goebel awarded $619,996 from the National Science Foundation and $30,000 from the Southern California Earthquake Center with the National Science Foundation. 

March - Dr. Robert Smalley awarded $59,359 from the U.S. Geological Survey. 

March - Dr. Mitchell Withers awarded $702,675 from the U.S. Geological Survey. 

Chemistry 

July - Dr. Paul Simone, associate professor in the Department of Chemistry, was awarded $48,740 from Foundation Instruments with the National Institutes of Health for his project “SBIR Phase II: Evaluation of Feasibility of the TotalTHM-NOW for drinking water treatment plants to improve water quality, reduce costs, and lower cancer risks.”

May - Dr. Abby Parrill-Baker awarded $59,138 from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health.

Feb - Dr. Kensha Clark, awarded $590,000 from the National Science Foundation. 

Computer Science 

July - Dr. Xiaolei Huang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $5,000 from the Oak Ridge Associated Universities for his project “Causal Modeling of Human Confounding Bias in Patient-reported Outcome Assessment.”

July - Dr. Santosh Kumar, director of the NIH Center of Excellence for Mobile Sensor Data-to-Knowledge (MD2K) and Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $115,445 from the National Institutes of Health for his project “mHealth Center for Discovery, Optimization & Translation of Temporally-Precise Interventions.”

July - Dr. Weizi Li, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $174,789 from the National Science Foundation for his project “CRII: III: Towards Effective and Efficient City-scale Traffic Reconstruction.”

July - Dr. Vasile Rus, Jack and Jane Morris professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $650,600 from the U.S. Department of Education for his project “CODE: Investigating and Scaffolding Students' Code Comprehension Processes to Improve Learning, Engagement, and Retention.”

July - Dr. Christos Papadopoulos, professor and Sparks Family Chair of Excellence in Global Research Leadership in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $299,582 from the National Science Foundation for his project “EAGER: C2DIT: Community Continuous Distributed Internet Traffic Datasets.”

July - Dr. Thomas Watson, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $88,857 from the National Science Foundation for his project “CAREER: Structural Communication Complexity.”

July - Dr. Myounggyu Won, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $99,764 from the National Security Agency for his project “GenCyber 2022.”

July - Dr. Xiaofei Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, was awarded $148,749 from the National Science Foundation for his project “Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Efficient and Scalable Learning and Management of Distributed Probabilistic Graphs.”

June - Dr. Lan Wang awarded $90,000 from Peraton Labs Inc. with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

May - Dr. Lan Wang awarded $101,566 from Peraton Labs Inc.

March - Dr. Thomas Watson awarded $87,652 from the National Science Foundation. 

Feb - Dr. Lan Wang, awarded $906,190 from Perspecta Labs Inc. with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 

Feb - Dr. Kan Yang, awarded $1,261,161 from the National Science Foundation. 

Criminology and Criminal Justice

July - Dr. Amaia Iratzoqui-Greenfield, associate professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, was awarded $376,524 from the State of Tennessee, Office of Criminal Justice Programs with the U.S. Department of Justice for her project “Increasing Collaboration among Domestic Violence Agencies.”

Earth Sciences 

July - Dr. Dorian Burnette, associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, was awarded $39,786 from the National Science Foundation for his project “Collaborative Research: Medieval to Modern Climate Variability and Climate Change in the Great Plains.”

July - Dr. Youngsang Kwon, associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences, was awarded $22,326 from the U.S. Geological Survey for his project “Mapping Spatio-temporal Groundwater Storage Changes in Memphis Aquifer: Integration of GRACE satellite, Ground-based Estimates and Hydrologic Modeling approach.”

May - Dr. Arleen Hill awarded $47,298 from Vanderbilt University in collaboration with the National Science Foundation.

Feb - Dr. Daniel Larson, awarded $32,000 from the City of Collierville. 

Mathematical Sciences

July - Mr. Manohar Aggarwal, instructor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, was awarded $9,900 from the National Science Foundation for his project “ICODOE 2022.”

Physics and Materials Science

July - Dr. Francisco Muller-Sanchez, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Material Sciences, was awarded $315,791 from the National Aeronautics and Space Admin for his project “The Keck OSIRIS Nearby AGN Survey: Characterizing the Physical Mechanisms Driving Feeding and Feedback in Active Galaxies.”

April - Dr. Francisco Muller-Sanchez awarded $134,566 from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

March - Dr. Mohamed Laradji awarded $102,822 from the National Science Foundation. 
 
March - Joanne Rhodes awarded $15,000 from Vanderbilt University with the National Aeronautics and Space Admin. 

Psychology

July - Dr. Kristoffer Berlin, associate professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded $17,896 from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville with the National Institutes of Health for his project “Translating basic habituation research to childhood obesity treatment.”

July - Dr. James Murphy, professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded $35,018 from the National Institutes of Health for his project “Behavioral economic and wellness-based approaches for reducing alcohol use and consequences among diverse community-dwelling emerging adults” and $10,713 from the University of Rhode Island with the National Institutes of Health for his project “Developing a Positive Approach to Substance Use Prevention in North American Indian Adolescents.”

July - Dr. John Sabatini, distinguished research professor in the Department of Psychology, was awarded $41,097 from the U.S. Department of Education for his project “Developing and implementing a technology-based, reading comprehension instruction system for adult literacy students.”

June - Dr. Kathryn Howell was awarded $55,000 from the University of Memphis Research Foundation with The Urban Child Institute.

April - Dr. Xiangen Hu awarded $220,843 from the U.S. Department of Defense with the United States Army Research Laboratory.

April - Dr. James Murphy awarded $36,814 from the University of Kansas Center for Research with the National Institutes of Health and $13,919 from the University of Kansas Center for Research with the National Institutes of Health.

April - Dr. John Sabatini awarded $13,760 from the Manhattan Strategy Group.

March - Dr. James Murphy awarded $315,140 from the National Institutes of Health. 

Feb - Dr. James Murphy,  awarded $36,112 from Washington State University with the National Institutes of Health. 

Feb - Dr. John Sabatini, awarded $39,925 from the Educational Testing Service with the U.S. Department of Education. 

Public and Non-Profit Administration

April - Dr. Elizabeth Gillespie awarded $8,755 from the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis.

March - Dr. Susan Elswick awarded $4,000 from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. 

Public Safety Institute 

Feb - Bill Gibbons, awarded $35,000 from the Shelby County Government. 

Social Work

June - Dr. Susan Neely Barnes, professor, chair and director of the School of Social Work, awarded $627,164 from the Health Resources and Services Administration and $464,391 from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

June - Dr. Susan Elswick awarded $170,000 from the University of Memphis Research Foundation with The Urban Child Institute.

Sociology 

March - Dr. Wesley James awarded $234,489 from the Delta Health Alliance with the U.S. Department of Education. 

World Languages and Literatures

May - Dr. Diana Ruggiero awarded $29,997 from the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Past Kudos

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