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 |
| Li Cai | Discrimination and Interference of Breast Cancer Stem Cells Using Carbohydrate Derivatives | USC Salkehatchie |
| Eran Kilpatrick | Herpetofauna Inventory and Assessment of Habitat Components on Santee National Wildlife Refuge | USC Salkehatchie |
| Rodney J Steward | Enemies of the Confederacy: Sequestration and the fate of Confederate Civil Liberties | USC Salkehatchie |
| Thomas G Bragg | The Princeton/G.P.R. James Project | USC Salkehatchie |
| David A. Hatch | Modernism in "Transition" - The Eugene Jolas Papers at Yale University's Beineke Collection | USC Salkehatchie |
| Fidele F. Ngwane | Analysis and implementation of a family of Enright type methods with trigonometric basis | USC Salkehatchie |