- 2012 Humanities Awardees
- 2012 Clinical Incentive Awardees
- 2012 Creative and Performing Arts Awardees
- 2012 Social Sciences Awardees
- 2012 Visiting Scholar Awardees
- 2012 Distributed Learning Awardees
- 2011 Awardees
- 2010 Awardees
2012 Humanities Awardees
Name |
Department |
Project |
| Katherine Adams | English - College of Arts and Sciences | Cotton Culture and Blackness after Emancipation ($12,216) |
| Mark Beck | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences | Understanding Classics: Plutarch ($7,521) |
| Catherine Castner | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences | Crusading and Patronage: Flavio Biondo's Shorter Works ($16,291) |
| Heidi Cooley | Art - College of Arts and Sciences | Augusta ($15,041) |
| Cynthia Davis | English - College of Arts and Sciences | The Ache of the Actual: Pain, Anesthesia, and the Aesthetics of U.S. Literary Realism ($8,000) |
| Charles Finocchiaro | Political Science - College of Arts and Sciences | The Historical Bills Project ($10,086) |
| Greg Forter | English - College of Arts and Sciences | "Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Contemporary Historical Realism" ($8,000) |
| Jeanne Garane | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences | " 'Native' African Interpreters in/and the French Colonial Archives" ($4,526) |
| Kent Germany | History - College of Arts and Sciences | The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidency: A Reassessment ($12,213) |
| Brian Glavey | English - College of Arts and Sciences | Too Much Information: Oversharing and the Procedural Poetics of Postwar American Literature ($10,148) |
| Carol Harrison | History - College of Arts and Sciences | Pauline Craven: Writing Women's Lives in Nineteenth Century France ($12,653) |
| David Hatch | USC Salkehatchie | Irish Archives and the Samuel Beckett Mystery ($14,436) |
| John Jenkins | School of Music | Leonard Bernstein's Musical Identities ($11,080) |
| Elisabeth Kuenzli | History - College of Arts and Sciences | Indians, Identity, and Nation Building in Eastern Bolivia: The Battle of Kuruyuki, 1892 ($17,175) |
| Agnes Mueller | Languages, Literatures, and Cultures - College of Arts and Sciences | Book Project: The Inability to Love. Jews, Gender, and America in Recent German Literature ($8,000) |
| Lawrence Rhu | English - College of Arts and Sciences | Plowing the Same Field: The Correspondence of Walker Percy and Robert Coles ($11,156) |
| Erin Roberts | Religious Studies - College of Arts and Sciences | The Gospel of Matthew and Greco-Roman Theories of Emotion ($6,000) |
| Qiana Whitted | English - College of Arts and Sciences | "Desegregating Comics: Race Hatred and Social Protest in 1950s American Comics" ($13,044) |
| Gretchen Woertendyke | English - College of Arts and Sciences | Romance in Early America: Novel Transformations in the Long Nineteenth Century ($8,000) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
| Helmut Albrecht | Internal Medicine- School of Medicine | Retrospective Review of Cause of Death (COD) in HIV-Infected Patients in South Carolina using the CoDe Protocol ($14,228) |
| Beverly Baliko | Nursing - College of Nursing | Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurocognitive Functioning Associated with Intimate Partner Violence ($15,000) |
| Suzanne Hardeman | Neuropsychiatry - School of Medicine | Impact of Advantage/Disadvantage Analysis on CPAP Adherence ($13,483) |
| Laura Hein | Nursing - College of Nursing | Support Groups and the Sexual Orientations - Together or Separate? The Consumer Perspective ($14,270) |
| Joseph Horvath | Internal Medicine - School of Medicine | Pyogenic Diskitis and Vertebral Osteomyelitis Study ($14,228) |
| Jeanette Jerrell | Neuropsychiatry - School of Medicine | Population-Based Pediatric Cardiology Studies ($14,643) |
| Carol LeAnn Norris | Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences - SC College of Pharmacy | Diabetes and Risk of Bladder Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study among the Veteran Affairs Population ($15,000) |
| Sabra Smith | Nursing - College of Nursing | Examination of Prenatal Care of HIV+ Pregnant Women and Clinical Outcomes ($5,098) |
| Lisa Spiryda | Obstetrics & Gynecology - School of Medicine | A Novel Method for HPV Screening in the Oral Cavity ($15,000) |
| Shilpa Srinivasan | Neuropsychiatry - School of Medicine | Adjunctive Tai Xhi in Geriatric Depression with Comorbid Arthritis: A Randomized, Controlled Trial ($14,571) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
| Northrop Davis | Art - College of Arts and Sciences | Creation of a manga based on a screenplay by Northrop Davis ($14,400) |
| Fred Dings | English - College of Arts and Sciences | The Blue Whale ($8,000) |
| Fran Gardner | USC Lancaster | Place and Voice: Artist-In-Residence, Chaco Canyon National Historical Park, New Mexico ($12,650) |
| Keith Kenney | School of Journalism & Mass Communications - College of Mass Communications & Information Studies | Will Tourism Change Adishi, Georgia, for the Better? A documentary film about a small village in the Caucasus Mountains ($5,930) |
| Howard Kingkade | USC Lancaster | Saint Dee Dee, a 10 Minute Narrative Film ($12,500) |
| Ray McManus | USC Sumter | Punch: A Collection of Poetry on the Working Class ($15,618) |
| Tara Powell | English - College of Arts and Sciences | Waldensian Diaspora Poetry Project ($12,311) |
| Mary Robinson | Art - College of Arts and Sciences | Roots and Fibers: Seeing Ourselves as Nature ($16,155) |
| Ellen Schlaefer | School of Music | Composition and Six Performances of an Opera by a South Carolina Composer ($12,500) |
| Alicia Walker | School of Music | Herbert Howells' "Sir Patrick Spens:" The North American Premiere of a Choral/Orchestral Work ($20,000) |
| Scott Weiss | School of Music | Naxos CD recording with the USC Wind Ensemble ($20,000) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
| Michael Beets | Exercise Science - Arnold School of Public Health | Comparison of online vs. face-to-face training of afterschool program staff to promote children's physical activity: Feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy ($13,613) |
| John Burrow | Criminology & Criminal Justice, Department of - College of Arts and Sciences | A preliminary assessment of the impact of plea bargains on offenders sentenced under the Youthful Offender Act ($19,763) |
| Jeffrey Campbell | Retailing - College of Hospitality, Retail & Sport Management | Down on the Farm: A Systems Approach to Understanding and Reducing Barriers between Retailers and Small SC Farms ($18,740) |
| Brian Chen | Health Services Policy and Management - Arnold School of Public Health | Utilization of Emergency Health Services for Non-Urgent Medical Conditions: A Feasibility Study of Extending Community Health Center Hours to Reduce Inappropriate Use of Emergency Departments ($19,504) |
| Stephen Criswell | USC Lancaster | South Carolina Native American Folklife and Oral History Project ($18,469 |
| Sharon DeWitte | Anthropology - College of Arts and Sciences | Paleodemographic and Paleogenomic Analyses of the Medieval Black Death ($20,000) |
| Kevin Lu | Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences - SC College of Pharmacy | Metformin Exposure and the Risk of Cancer among Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: A Comparative Effectiveness Study ($20,000) |
| Justin Moore | Health Promotion, Education & Behavior - Arnold School of Public Health | Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of a playground intervention to decrease bullying behavior while increasing physical activity in elementary school children ($14,525) |
| Svetlana Shinkareva | Psychology - College of Arts and Sciences | Cross-modal Decoding of Affective States From fMRI Data ($19,852) |
| Sharon Spencer | Health Promotion, Education & Behavior - Arnold School of Public Health | Cultivating Community through the Community Garden Movement: A Profile and Impact Evaluation of Columbia's Local Food Initiative ($18,886) |
| James Thrasher | Health Promotion, Education & Behavior - Arnold School of Public Health | Validation of measurement approaches to assess the impact of pictorial warning labels on cigarette packaging ($19,250) |
Name |
Department |
Project |
| Charles Bennett | Pharmacy (Dean) - SC College of Pharmacy | Obstetric and Pediatric Drug Research ($6,039) |
Janice Breuer |
Economics - Moore School of Business |
Monetary and Exchange Rate Regimes: Implications for Inflation and Growth ($19,647) |
| Charles Cobb | SC Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology - College of Arts and Sciences | Building Collaborations in Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology ($7,650) |
Stanley William Dubinsky |
English Language and Literature – College of Arts and Sciences |
Digital Documentation of, and Access to, Folk Lore of Indigenous Groups ($17,394) |
| Victor Giurgiutiu | Mechanical Engineering – College of Engineering and Computing |
Aerospace Engineering Education and Aerospace Composites Research ($25,000) |
| Ralf Gothe | Physics & Astronomy - College of Arts and Sciences | Graduate Student Summer School and International Workshop at USC ($25,000) |
| Brian Helmuth | Biological Sciences - College of Arts and Sciences | Visiting Scholar in Dynamic Energy Budget Modeling ($14,439) |
| April Hiscox | Geography - College of Arts and Sciences | The Meteorology of Forests in Motion ($11,696) |
| Stephanie Mitchem | Religious Studies - College of Arts and Sciences | Visiting Scholar Proposal: Dr. Fatemeh Haghighatjoo ($12,260) |
Laszlo A. Szekely |
Mathematics – College of Arts and Sciences |
Summer School on Network Science at USC ($21,949) |
