Review Board

Seed Grant Review Board members

Alan Tennant

UTK-MRSEC Director

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Claudia Rawn

UTK-MRSEC Education and Diversity Director

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

David Mandrus

IRG 1 Representative

Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Tim Truster

IRG 2 Representative

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Seed Proposal Review

Review process

Each complete proposal will be reviewed by the CAMM Seed Board and research area experts. The Seed Board will make recommendations to CAMM’s Leadership team, the award-granting authority for CAMM’s Seed Grant Program.

At the time of award notification, PI(s) will receive an anonymous copy of the reviews.

Review Criteria

How proposals are evaluated

• Intellectual merit of proposed research activity, including originality and potential contribution to science, technology, and education
• Potential to seed transformative advances involving materials-allied research
• Clearly distinct from ongoing externally or internally funded research, including recent CAMM Seed Grant Program funding; these are not meant to be continuation grants
• Potential to positively impact Investigators’ career trajectory
• Potential for the proposed research to be funded through external funding mechanisms
• Evidence of team synergy
• Potential for winning external funding