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 |
| Joseph L. Staton | SIMMER Phase I: Developing an Electronic Genetics Recitation | USC Beaufort |
| Eric Wilson Montie | Using Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and Goldfish (Carassius auratus) As Model Organisms to Determine the Role that Thyroid Hormones Play in Hearing Development and Hair Cell Regeneration |
USC Beaufort |
| Jonathon Goebel | Hybrid Printmaking: Integrating Digital with Intaglio Printing |
USC Beaufort |
| Kasia Anna Pawelek | Research Initiative for Summer Engagement (RISE) For Senior Campuses and Extended University Faculty: Designing Epidemiological Models for Highly Pathogenic Influenza Viruses with Parameters Dependent on the Immune System and Assessment of Control Strategies |
USC Beaufort |
| Pamela Cooper Hoel | RISE: In Their Own Voices: Bangladesh Acid Survivor Stories | USC Beaufort |
| Robert Kilgore | The Elliptical Politics of Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): The Trouble with the Psalms and the Story of David | USC Beaufort |
| Stephen Borgianini | RISE: Ecological and Evolutionary Significance of Parasitic Isopod Infestation of Intertidal Crabs; Lack of Host Specificity | USC Beaufort |
| Timothy MacDowell James | NAFTA Turns Twenty: a Brief History and Assessment of its Impact in Mexico | USC Beaufort |
| Xuwei Liang | An Integrated White Matter Analysis System Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging | USC Beaufort |
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