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Research Council 2024 – 2025

 

RESEARCH COUNCIL:  This Council promotes excellence in research, scholarship, and other creative activity through the study and recommendation of policies. The Research Council shall initiate and support efforts to communicate an understanding of and appreciation for research, scholarship, and other creative activity to the campus community and the community at large. This Council co-administers some programs of the Office of Research and Engagement, as requested by the Vice Chancellor or the Associate or Assistant Vice Chancellors for Research. Areas of interest include research incentives and support, intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary research activities, compliance with state, federal and university regulations governing the conduct of research, rights to and commercialization of intellectual property, the broad range of research infrastructure including institutional facilities, computational support, and other research-related resources. The Research Council conducts the initial phase of the periodic review of research centers and units supported by and/or reporting to the Office of Research. Further, the Research Council shall concern itself with the institutional policy on research grants and funding, with copyright and patent policy, with protection of investigators, with the protection of human subjects of research, with the protection of experimental animals, and with policies affecting compliance of research activities with environmental and occupational health and safety requirements.  In addition, the Council shall also encourage publications and the development of specialized research facilities for intercollegiate and/or interdisciplinary uses in accordance with any other policies pertaining to research programs. The Council shall furthermore encourage media releases of research successes by UTK, UTIA, and UTSI researchers. When appropriate, the Research Council shall report its actions for approval to the Faculty Senate. The Office of Research and Engagement has agreed to provide a member of the administrative staff to facilitate meeting functions and support the activities of the Research Council.

 

 

Research Council

2024 – 2025

 

    

Title

Email

Department or Name

1. Karen Franck, Co-Chair Associate Professor kfranck@utk.edu Family & Consumer Sciences
2. Megan Bryson, Co-Chair
Associate Professor mbryson4@utk.edu Religious Studies
3. Samereh Abdoli Associate Professor sabdoli@utk.edu Nursing
4. Joshua Bienko Associate Professor jbienko@utk.edu School of Art
5. Shawn Campagna (non-Senator) Professor campagna@utk.edu Chemistry
6. Courtney Cronley Professor ccronle1@utk.edu Social Work
7. Lydia Kim Professor ykim13@utk.edu Retail, Hospitality, & Tourism Management
8. Brian Long Professor blong20@utk.edu Chemistry
9. Miguel Madurga Flores Assistant Professor mmadurga@utk.edu Physics & Astronomy
10. Tadele Mengesha Professor mengesha@utk.edu Mathematics
11. Paul Palies Associate Professor ppalies@utk.edu Space Institute
12. Timothy Truster Associate Professor ttruster@utk.edu Civil & Environmental Engineering
13. Wei Zheng Associate Professor wzheng9@utk.edu Business Analytics

ORIED Members (Ex-Officio)

Name Title Department
1. Deborah Crawford Vice Chancellor for Research ORIED
2. Brad Day Associate Vice Chancellor ORIED
3. Jennifer Webster Chief of Staff/ORIED Development Manager ORIED
4. Paula Wyatt Brown Administrative Coordinator ORIED

Other Members (Ex-Officio)

Name Title Department
1. David Goddard Science Writer Communications
2. Amber Roessner Faculty Senate President Journalism and Media
3. Dan Harder Chief Academic Technology Officer Office of Innovative Technologies
4. Tabitha Samuel HPC Operations and NICS Deputy Director
5. David Sholl Interim Executive Director UT-ORII

 

ADR Members (Ex-Officio)

Name Department
1. Suzie Allard Communication and Information
2. Katherine Ambroziak Architecture
3. David E. Anderson UTIA Vet Medicine
4. Chad Autry Business
5. Teri Baxter Law
6. Michael J. Blum Arts and Sciences
7. Ernest Brothers Graduate School
8. Doug Coatsworth Social Work
9. Bill Dunne Engineering
10. Nathan Fleshner Music
11. Holly Mercer Libraries
12. Matt Murray Baker Center
13. Hollie Raynor Education, Health, and Human Sciences
14. Timothy Rials UTIA
15. Jon Wall UT Medical
16. Tami Wyatt Nursing

 

GSS Representatives (Ex-Officio)

Name
1. Jessica Barfield
2. Katrina Stack
3. Allison Jones