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Chattanooga, TN 37403

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GRANTS

• Aborn, D.A., 2006. UTC Faculty Development Grant. $1500
• Spratt, H.R. , Litchford, G. , Aborn, D. A., Shaw, J. , and Carroll, A., 2006. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII).  $149,875
• Carver, E., 2006. UTC Instructional Excellence Grant. Project: "Use of Models in the developmental Biology Laboratory". $1421
• Craddock, J. H., 2006. Bettie J Smith Family Limited Partnership (2002-2006). $6000/year
• Craddock, J.H., 2006. The Chestnut Project at Dollywood (2000-2006). $20,000/year
• Gaudin, T.J.,  2006-2010. National Science Foundation, ATOL grant, Collaborative Research.  Project: “Resolving Mammalian Phylogeny with Genomic and Morphological Approaches.”  (Co-PI, with PI Dr. Zhexi Luo and Co-PI Dr. John Wible of Carnegie Museum of Natural History). $28,000
• Gaudin, T.J. and M. Smith, 2007. National Park Service Grant.  Project: “Mammal Inventory for Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park”.  $996 ($1150 match from UTC). $2146 total
• Halperin, S. 2006. UTC Faculty Research Grant. $3000
• Halperin, S. and T.J. Gaudin, 2006. UTC Instructional Excellence Grant. $932
• Kovach, M., 2006. UC Foundation Faculty Research Grant, Project: "Effect of microsatellite variability on aberrant gene expression patterns associated with colon cancer". $3,000
• Kreiss, D., 2006. Chemicals for research provided by Solvay Pharmaceuticals. $37,000
• Kreiss, D., 2006. UC Foundation Faculty Research Grant, Project: “Evaluation of Ritualistic Chewing Behaviors and cFOS Expression Induced by mCPP in Rats as an Animal Model of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”. $3,000
• Kreiss, D., 2006. UC Foundation Faculty Development Grant for travel costs to the 2006 Convention of the Society for Neuroscience in Atlanta, GA. $500
• Reynolds, B. and M. Schorr, 2006. UTC Instructional Excellence Grant. Project: " Improvement of the Environmental Science Laboratory Experience". $2761
• Richards, S. (P.I.), D. Adair, K. Johnson, R. Miller, C. Salafia, 2007-2009. Project: "Investigation of Causes of Low Birth Weight in Hamilton County, TN".  Source: United States Congress (approved but pending). $500,000
• Richards, S., 2006. UC Foundation Research Grant, Project: "Pilot study to investigate causes of low birth weight in Hamilton County, TN". $30,000. 
• Shaw, J., 2006. renewed NSF subaward from U.C., Davis to UTC. $36,991
• Shaw, J. and H. Craddock, 2006. The American Chestnut Foundation, Project: "Natural Chestnut/Chinkapin hybrids are confounding breeding efforts in the southeast: a DNA sequence-based inquiry into putative hybrid populations". $6500
• Spratt, H.G., J. Mies (UTC Geology), J. Pinnix and G. Brodie (TVA), 2006. Tennessee Valley Authority. Project: "Characterization of physical, microbial, and biogeochemical processes occurring in established TVA constructed wetlands treating acid coal ash drainage". $19,986
• Spratt, H.G. and I. Howlet, 2006. UC Foundation Faculty Research Grant. Project: "Comparative genetic analysis of contaminated Chattanooga Creek soils to determine the effect of prior exposure on soil microbial community structure". $2,674
• Research Associates Award from UTC Office of Grants and Program Review – Aborn, Carver, Kreiss