RISE, a competitive funding program, provides financial support for faculty working at USC's system campuses and online bachelor's degree completion programs to conduct research and scholarly activities during the summer months. The four-year campus RISE awards are funded in collaboration with the chancellors at USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate. 

Four-Year Campuses

2018 USC Aiken RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title
Andrew Dyer	Ecological Invasion: The Role of Indirect Effects in an Annual Grassland
Kelly Ann Gibson	Tropical Pacific Nutrient Dynamics Across the Mid Pleistocene Transition
Todd Hagstette	James Henry Hammond and William Gilmore Simms: The Worst of Friends
Richard Maltz	Compose a Ballet
Nicholas Marshall	Preparation of alternating conjugated polymer brushes via surface-initiated Kumada catalyst-transfer polymerization (SI-KCTP)
Kristina Ramstad	Assessing genetic connectivity and divergence among wood storks of Brazil, Cuba and the United States
Jessica Sullivan	RISE: Production and Comparison of GPS and LiDAR Salt Marsh Circulation Models
Laura Swain	Examination of the Positivity Effect and Socio-emotional Cognitive Functioning in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2018 USC Beaufort RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title
Timothy James	Reforming Military Justice: The Fuero Militar from Independence to the Three Years War
Summer Roberts	Subjective Assessments of Successful Aging

2018 USC Upstate RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title
Andrew Beer	Effects of Escalated Exposure to Information on Accuracy of Personality Judgment
Ona Egbue	Dynamic Modelling and Control of Electric Vehicle Integration into the Smart Grid
Toshua Kennedy	Lessons Learned from BEE Healthy: An Intervention Study Applying Peer Support among Students, Parents, and Teachers
Thomas McConnell	Historical Fiction as a Distant Mirror: A Southern Novella to Illuminate the Present
Allison Pingley	Life in Transition: Examining the Impact of Communism in Hungary
Matthew Placek	RISE - Social Media and Regime Support in Russia: Does National Origin of Website Used Matter?
Shannon Polchow	Dyslexia and World Languages: Navigating College Requirements in South Carolina
Monica Shehi	Investigating the Emergence of the Discipline of Composition in the Albanian Higher Education System Under the Influence of the American Model
Nolan Stolz	Presentation at the Third International Conference of the Progect Network for the Study of Progressive Rock (Lund, Sweden)
Carolyn Webber	Working in the Margin: Domestic and International Minority Women in Higher Education
Wei Zhong	Applying Big Data based Multi-level Deep Learning Frameworks to the Development of Malware Detection Systems

Palmetto College Campuses 

2018 USC Lancaster RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title
Li Cai	Targeting Tumor Cells by Natural Anti-Carbohydrate Antibodies Using Rhamnose-Functionalized Virus Particles
Christopher Judge	Determining the Validity of a Model Developed to Document the Decrease in the Basal Width of Triangular Shaped Stone Arrowheads through Time: 3,000 to 300 Years Ago

2018 USC Salkehatchie RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title
Melissa Rack	The Slender Muse: Neoteric Poetics in Spenser’s Late Pastorals “Theory: Alexandrian Echoes”; “Theory: New Songs”; and “Style: Things and Thingliness”