Thirty students have been selected to participate in the 2016 Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program (SURIP). The program, administered by the Office of Undergraduate Research, pairs an undergraduate student with a faculty mentor to conduct research during the summer.
Students were required to submit a research proposal which was judged by a panel of faculty members from their college. Once selected, recipients may choose to conduct their research at either UT Knoxville or another national or international research organization.
Since 2008, over 500 students have been funded through the program to conduct summer undergraduate research under the direction of a UT faculty mentor.
Funding for the program is provided by the Office of the Chancellor, Office of Research and Engagement, Honors and Scholars Program, and College of Nursing.
The 2016 recipients are:
| Student | College | Project Title | Faculty Mentor |
| Bensey, Kiernan W. | College of Arts & Sciences | Bonne Chance French Application: Extensive Narrative Development | Staples, Carolyn I |
| Brito, Alexandra C. | College of Arts & Sciences | Effect of language immersion on advanced, late learners of French as revealed by electroencephalography | Bowden, Harriet Wood |
| Byrne, Erin K. | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Adult Perceptions of Iconicity of Basic Concept Vocabulary | McCarthy, Jillian |
| Campbell, Ashley V. | College of Arts & Sciences | The role of CeA-to-DRN projections in conditioned defeat response | Cooper, Matthew A |
| Connolly, Blake P. | Haslam College of Business | Analysis of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the fiscal and monetary policies created to ensure prevention of the same issues in the future. | Mohsin, Mohammed |
| Craig, Michael A. | College of Arts & Sciences | The effect of crowder concentration on the kinetics and thermodynamics of the reaction catalyzed by R67 dihydrofolate reductase, and its physiological implications | Howell, Elizabeth E |
| Doherty, Lora M. | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Youth, Recreation, and Coping Strategies in Military Families | Wozencroft, Angela |
| Dunn, William D. | College of Architecture and Design | The Imperial Ramp Complex of Rome: Excavating Layers of Memory | Kalas, Gregor A |
| Durick, Abby L. | College of Arts & Sciences | Haslam Scholar Senior Thesis: Late Bronze Age Aeginetan Potmarks from Mitrou Archaeological Project, Greece | Van de Moortel, Aleydis |
| Galan, Nicholas J. | College of Arts & Sciences | Synthesis of Lipid probes for Protein Discovery | Best, Michael Douglas |
| Grimm, Matthew J. | College of Nursing | 30 Day Readmission Risk Assessment Model for Heart Failure Patients in Southeast Appalachia | Brown, Mary Lynn |
| Harr, Rachel E. | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Well-Being among Adolescents with Incarcerated Parents | Johnson, Elizabeth Inez |
| Henriksen, Kylie G. | College of Arts & Sciences | The Colonization and Chemotaxis of Azosparillum brasilense | Alexandre, Gladys |
| Kilmarx, Justin R. | College of Engineering | Drone Control via Noninvasive Brain Signals | Zhao, Xiaopeng |
| Kirk, Adaya A. | College of Nursing | Audience, Content, Media: Factors to Consider When Designing Technology Based Asthma Education Programs for Children | Wyatt, Tami Hodges |
| Mccarty, Kathrine M. | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | Is White Nose Syndrome Affecting Bat Species that come in Contact with Humans? | Muller, Lisa Irene |
| Nabors, Stephanie S. | College of Nursing | Substance Abuse Among Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs): An Exploration of Preventative Measures in the Educational Setting | Bonom, Julie Newton |
| Patchen, Anna L. | College of Arts & Sciences | Archaic Plant Use in Western Tennessee | Hollenbach, Kandace Renee |
| Patel, Ravi S. | College of Arts & Sciences | Entry Inhibition of HCMV by p5 Related Peptides | Sparer, Timothy E |
| Patterson, Madison M. | College of Nursing | The Clinical Nurse’s Role and Communication with Administration in Hospital Reimbursement | Swift, Shelia Henson |
| Poarch, Sara B. | College of Arts & Sciences | Assessing Sustainability in International Service Learning | Darby, Erin Danielle |
| Porter, Haley N. | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | How Colonocyte Metabolism Shifts in Colorectal Cancer | Donohoe, Dallas |
| Ramirez, Sara | College of Arts & Sciences | Characterization of clpV gene and its involvement in swarming motility of Azospirillum brasilense | Alexandre, Gladys |
| Rebekah Ann Keith | College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Examination of the Use of Social Robots with Comorbid Phonological Disorders | McCarthy Maeder, Jillian |
| Staley, Sarah A. | College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | Phenotypic and Genetic Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates taken from Bovine Cows with Clinical Mastitis | Kerro Dego, Oudessa |
| Stamper, Nicholas C. | College of Arts & Sciences | Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Trojan Asteroids: Assessing Compositional Bimodality at Small Sizes | Emery, Joshua Patrick |
| Stuart, Meghan L. | College of Arts & Sciences | Developing a Non-Standard Operating System for use in the ALICE TPC on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN | Nattrass, Christine Elizabeth |
| Weeks, Rachel M. | College of Engineering | Create a closed-loop control system to synthesize stair ascent. | Reinbolt, Jeff |
| Weiskittel, Taylor M. | College of Engineering | Expressing fluorescent fusion proteins from the native locus in a hepatocyte: a crucial application of the CRISPR/Cas9 technology for obesity research | Dalhaimer, Paul Matthew |
| Wilbanks, Brandon A. | College of Engineering | Design and Characterization of Modular Escherichia coli for Renewable Ethanol Production | Trinh, Cong |