The Research Initiative for Summer Engagement (RISE) program provides financial support to faculty members at senior and regional campuses for summer salary, research supplies, travel related to research and undergraduate student support. Faculty members can also use these funds to spend the summer collaborating with USC Columbia faculty members.
Below are the 2013 awardees from our Senior and Regional Campuses.
USC Aiken | USC Beaufort | USC Upstate | USC Lancaster | USC Salkahatchie | USC Sumter |
| Principal Investigator | Title | Campus |
| Andrew B. Geyer | The Humble Men | USC Aiken |
| Charles Nathan Hancock | Development of Ping-based Transposon Tagging Plasmids for Tomato and Wheat Transformation | USC Aiken |
| David Benjamin Dillard-Wright | Proximity and Sympathy: The Ethical Dimensions of Distance | USC Aiken |
| Garriet W. Smith | Identification of the etiological agent causing a new disease affecting Dendrogyra cylindrus (pillar coral) colonies in the Upper Keys | USC Aiken |
| Gerard Thomas Rowe | Synthesis and Peroxide Reactivity of a Non-heme Iron Compound Containing Internal Hydrogen-Bonding Elements | USC Aiken |
| Jill Brady Hampton, PhD | The Irish Equestrian Culture and Diaspora | USC Aiken |
| Kathleen Kalpin Smith | Representations of Gendered Speech in Early Modern England | USC Aiken |
| Richard S. Maltz | Record Aesop's Fables, an Original Orchestral Composition | USC Aiken |
| Sarah Michele Harmon | The Biotic Ligand Model as a predictor of toxicity to Ceriodaphnia dubia in Blackwater Receiving Stream Systems in South Carolina | USC Aiken |
| Spring Serenity Duvall | Hope for Haiti?: Framing celebrity activism and the Haiti earthquake in U.S. news, 2010-2013 | USC Aiken |
| Timothy Lintner | Social Studies Instruction for Students with Mild Disabilities: An (Updated) Progress Report | USC Aiken |
| Tom John C. Wood | The Impact of Constitutional Change on Kyrgyzstan'ss Foreign Policy | USC Aiken |
| Vicki Long | The Use of High-Fidelity Mannequin Simulation Teaching for Newborn Examinations: Evaluation of the Effectivesness in Educating Undergraduate Nursing Students | USC Aiken |
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