Thirty-nine faculty members have received nearly $400,000 in Research and Productive Scholarship Awards from the Office of Research and Health Sciences.
The awards are intended to encourage individual scholarly activities in research and other productive scholarship and to increase the University’s research base.
Funds are provided for three categories of awards. The first category grants seed money to give faculty a competitive edge when submitting major grant proposals with the possibility for long-term funding. The second category assists with the start-up of new projects of scholarly excellence and significance. The third category supports creative and performing arts such as exhibits, performances, and compositions.
This year’s awardees are:
• Swann Adams, epidemiology and biostatistics, “Ethnicity, Follow-up, and Breast Cancer Outcomes Among Economically Disadvantaged Women,” $17,000
• Michael Aksenov, psychology, “Protein Targets of Oxidative Stress in Neuronal Cell Culture Exposed HIV-1 Protein Tat and Cocaine: Dopamine Transporter (DAT),” $19,000
• Amit Almor, psychology, “Memory and Language in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease,” $13,000
• Reginald Bain, music, “xMUSE at USC Interactive Sonification,” $6,700
• David Barbeau, geological sciences, “Mountain-building and Sedimentary Basins in the Southernmost Andes,” $19,000
• Gail Barnes, music, “An Online Community for Orchestra and String Teachers,” $6,000
• Tieling Chen, USC Aiken, “A Wavelet Transformation-based Approach to Object Delineation and Object Extraction in High Resolution Aerial Images,” $4,000
• Carl Dahlman, geography, “The Effects of Displacement Outcomes on Post-war State-building and Social Reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” $16,000
• Andrew Dyer, USC Aiken, “The Reproductive Biology of Cyperus Rotundus and C. Esculentus,” $5,000
• Koffi Fadimba, USC Aiken, “Error Analysis and Numerical Solutions for a Backward Euler Scheme for a Class of Porous Medium Equations,” $6,500
• Stacy Fritz, exercise science, “Modified Constraint-induced Movement Therapy for Individuals with Chronic Lower-extremity Deficits Post-stroke,” $18,000
• Michelle Granner, prevention research center, “Sedentary and Physical Activity Behavior in Women: Associations with Eating Behavior,” $7,000
• Carol Harrison, history, “French Science, Australian Nature: Natural History, and the Baudin Expedition, 1801-1804,” $6,800
• Liv Haselbach, civil and environmental engineering, “Sustainable Construction at the University of South Carolina: A Comparative Analysis,” $6,000
• Chin-Tser Huang, computer science and engineering, “Multiple Instantiations of Dynamic Firewall Rules in BGP Routers,” $16,000
• Dawn Hunter, art, “Spectacle Spectacular: A Series of Acrylic Paintings,” $4,000
• Esmaiel Jabbari, chemical engineering, “Bimodally Degradable Hydrogels as a Carrier for Stem Cells in Cartilage Regeneration,” $19,000
• Jennifer Laffoon, art, “Home Sweet Home,” $4,000
• Thomas Lekan, history, “Sublime Consumption: German Nature Tourism and the Mass Production of Landscape,” $6,000
• Susan Lessner, cell and developmental biology and anatomy, “In Vivo Imaging of Angiogenesis in a Mouse Model Using Soluble Quantum Dots,” $19,000
• Chad Leverette, USC Aiken, “Investigation of GLAD Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption (SEIRA) Spectroscopy,” $6,000
• Marina Lomazov, music, “Compact Disc Recording,” $4,000
• Steven Marsh, languages, literatures, and cultures, “Tracks, Traces, and Commonplaces: Spanish Popular Cinema from Luis Bunuel to Pedro Almodovar,” $7,000
• Melissa Moss, chemical engineering, “Involvement of Endothelial Receptors in Abeta-augmented Adhesion and Vascular Degeneration,” $19,000
• Stephanie Nace, art, “Southeast Association for Book Arts Traveling Exhibition Catalogue,” $4,000
• Rebecca Nagel, music, “Compact Disc Recording,” $4,000
• Meera Narasimhan, neuropsychiatry, “An Open Label Trial of Aripiprazole in the Treatment of Autism and its Correlation to Whole Blood Serotonin Levels and Serotonin Transporter Function,” $19,000
• Colin Pearce, USC Beaufort, “The Writings of George Frederick Holmes,” $4,000
• Karin Pfeiffer, exercise science, “Sensitivity to Change of Accelerometry as a Measure of Physical Activity,” $19,000
• Gang Quan, computer science and engineering, “Power Aware Scheduling for Real-time Embedded Systems,” $14,000
• Eric Reisenauer, USC Sumter, “Of Arms and Armageddon: Millennialism and Modernity in Great War Britain, 1914-1918,” $4,000
• Brent Simpson, sociology, “Trust and Embedded Markets,” $8,500
• William Terwilliger, music, “CD Recording: Chamber Music of Paul Schoenfield,” $6,000
• Paul Thompson, chemistry and biochemistry, “Mechanism and Inhibition of Protein Arganine Methyltransferases,” $19,000
• Homayoun Valafar, computer science and engineering, “Monosaccharide Decomposition Analysis of Complex Carbohydrates from 1D-1H NMR Spectra,” $19,000
• Sebastian van Delden, USC Upstate, “Robotics Research at USC Upstate,” $7,000
• David Voros, art, “Visualizing Dante,” $4,000
• Rheeda Walker, psychology, “Piloting the Psychological Autopsy Method for African American Suicide,” $5,000
• Douglas Woodward, business research, “Filling the Knowledge Gap: An Economic and Financial Survey of Mexican Migrants in South Carolina,” $6,500
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