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 |
| Alissa Kate Holland | A Functional Cerebral Systems Approach to Trait Hostility: Examining a Double Dissociation between Left and Right Frontal Lobe Activation in the Completion of Verbal and Design Fluency Tasks | USC Lancaster |
| Fernanda Marques Burke | Improving the Pharmacokinetics of Naturally Occurring Peptides: A Parallel Teaching Approach | USC Lancaster |