Welcome New Faculty
The Office of Research and Economic Development is dedicated to assisting faculty in easily navigating administrative processes and offices and to find solutions to the perceived and real hurdles to productive sponsored scholarly endeavors. To this end, a new website has been designed to provide you a "one stop shop" overview of writing quality proposals, effectively managing fiscal and technical aspects of awards, and maintaining the highest integrity in science according to Interim Vice President for Research Dr. Rose Booze.

"Paramount to the university’s mission is the need for external funding through grants, contracts, and commitments from partners interested in furthering science and art in which our institution is significantly engaged," she said. This new investigator toolbox is now available to help you find, obtain and manage your sponsored funding.

Carolina research funding hits all-time high
University of South Carolina research funding reached a record $206 million in fiscal year FY2008, up 11.3 percent from FY2007. Since 2002, it has increased by nearly $100 million.

Carolina President Harris Pastides said the dramatic increase in funding indicates that the university’s researchers are earning recognition not only for the quality of their research, but also for its relevance and impact on society.

Rose Booze, the university’s interim vice president for research, added that  “The double-digit increase in research funding points to the impact of recruiting new faculty through the Centenary Plan and the Faculty Excellence Initiative and to the diligence of our veteran faculty.”

$1.1 million for USC cancer researcher
The National Cancer Institute (NCI, NIH) has awarded USC $1.1 million for a study by Dr. James Carson and his colleagues in the Departments of Exercise Science, Biological Sciences, and the Center for Colorectal Cancer Research. The study, funded through a four year R01 grant, is focused on identifying exercise and nutritional countermeasures that can prevent the causes of severe muscle wasting in colon cancer.