Forty-one faculty members at USC received more than $375,000 in Research and Productive Scholarship Awards from the Office of Research in 2004.

The awards were granted following a review of proposals earlier in the spring. The deadline for 20005 Research and Productive Scholarship Awards is the last week of January. Faculty members can use the new Web-based USCERA system to submit proposals.

This years awardees are:
Sarah Barker, theatre, speech, and dance, “The Bacchae,” $6,000
Laura Cahue, anthropology, “A Pilot Study to Assess Skeletal and Biomolecular Evidence of Pre-Columbian Tuberculosis in West Mexico,” $10,500
Catherine Castner, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Biondo Flavio's Italia Illustrata: Text, translatation and commentary, Vol I Northern Italy,” $4,000
Bradley Edwards, music, “Commission and Premiere of a New Composition for Solo Trombone and Piano,” $3,500
Katherine Grier, McKissick Museum, “Book/catalog subvention for Pets in America exhibition at McKissick Museum,” $4,000
Song Wang, computer science and engineering, FRMI Image Registration with Parallel Computing, $14,000
Mary Ellen Bellanca, English, USC Sumter, “Days of Green Discovery: Writing Nature in Nineteenth-Century British Diaries and Journals,” $6,800
Thomas Brown, Institute for Southern Studies, “The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War,” $5,650
Otavio Bueno, philosophy, “Mathematics and Fiction,” $6,000
Dimitar Deliyski, communications sciences and disorders, “Establishing Normative Data for Quantitative Assessment of Laryngeal Function via High-Speed Videoendoscopy,” $13,000
Clifford Leaman, music, “Compact Disc Recording,” $6,000
Joseph Staton, biology, USC Beaufort, “Uncovering molecular mechanisms in toxicological models: the application of Serial Analysis of Gene Expression to the grass shrimp,” $10,500
Don Barth, art, “Virtual Interactive Landscapes,” $4,000
Ken Harrison, civil and environmental engineering, “Market Mechanisms and Incentives for Water Quality Management Under Uncertainty,” $14,000
Julie Miller-Cribbs, social work, “The Contexts of Marriage: Examining Family Form, Race and Child Well-being Among South Carolina Families on Welfare,” $14,000
Ruslan Prozorov, physics and astronomy, “Development of Novel Functional Nanocomposites,” $14,000
Todd Shaw, political science, “War on Terrorism Study Dialogue Study,” $5,638
Willie Strong, music, “New Narratives for African-American Folk Music,” $6,000
William Brown, educational psychology, “Teacher-Implemented Interventions to Enhance Young Children's Physical Activity in Preschools,” $10,000
Sandra Kelly, psychology, “Cortical Organization and the Limits of Human Potential,” $11,000
Laura Kissel, art, “Cabin Field: A Documentary Film,” $4,000
Sebastian vanDelden, USC Spartanburg, "Linking a Syntactic Partial Parse to Semantic Verb Predicates," $6,100
Walt Hanclosky, art, “Development of Cranial Nerve Anatomy Interactive Instructional Materials for Medical School Students and General Audiences,” $6,290
Suzanne Swan, psychology, “The Mental Health of Women Who Use Violence in Intimate Relationships,” $11,000
Jeffrey Bischoff, mechanical engineering, “Axially Asymmetric Indentation for the Mechanical Characterization of Bone,” $12,000
Timothy Lintner, USC Aiken, “The Perceptual and Practical Status of K-5 Social Studies Instruction of South Carolina,” $3,229
Jeanne Schinksy, psychology, “Infants’ Search for Objects Hidden by Darkness versus Covers,” $12,000
Dan Streible, art, “International Film Preservation Partnerships,” $10,200
Pradeep Talwani, geological sciences, “Seismogenesis of Intraplate Earthquakes,” $6,630
Jeffrey Darabi, mechanical engineering, “Separation of DNA Molecules using Dielectrophotrtic forces,” $14,000
Dianne Johnson, English, “Beautiful by Design: The Art of African American Children's Literature,” $5,000
Gary Senn, USC Aiken, “Production of a planetarium show,” $3,922
Eric Smith, pharmacy, “Skin Penetration Retarders for Sunscreen Formulations,” $14,000
Richard Styles, geological sciences, “Measuring Fluid Pressure Above and Below the Sediment-Water Interface for a Rippled Bed,” $11,500
Rao Li, mathematics, USC Aiken, “Hamiltonian Properties of Claw-Free Graphs of Super-Claw-Free Graphs,” $4,000
Gene Yogodzinski, geological sciences, “A Preliminary Study of Volcanic Rock Geochemistry at Little Sitkin Island, Western Aleutians, Alaska,” $12,800
Camelia Knapp, geological sciences, “Submarine Landslide of the Caspian Sea: Evidence for Seafloor Deformation in Response to Climatically Driven Hydrate Dissociation,” $14,000
Dan Dixon, biological sciences, “Role of HuR in Gastrointestinal Neoplasia,” $14,000
Qian Wang, chemistry and biochemistry, “Diversity-Oriented Combinatorial Synthesis to Construct New Drug Candidates Pool,” $14,000
Shawn Youngstedt, exercise science, “Using Bright Light Combined with Exercise to Shift the Human Circadian System,” $14,000
Jonathan Bender, chemical engineering, “Nanotribology of Ultra-high Molecular Weight Polyethylene,” $14,000



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