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 |
| Mary Ellen Bellanca, PhD | Archival Research in Wordsworth Trust Collections | USC Sumter |
| Kajal Bose Ghoshroy | Biological Control of Net Blotch Disease: A Time-Wise Investigation of Damage to the Pathogen Laetisaria arvalis by Pyrenophora teres | USC Sumter |
| Hayes D. Hampton | Popular Culture, Esotericism, and Music: Summer Salary Request to Complete a Refereed Journal Article | USC Sumter |
| Michele Reese | Primogeniture: Poetry Manuscript | USC Sumter |
| Park Bucker | Dorothy Parker Gone to Market: An Examination of the Profession of Authorship for a Major American Humorist |
USC Sumter |
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