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. 

2020 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients

Recipient Name	Project Title	College
Brown, Alaina	Publication of a Research-Based Activity for use in a Physical Chemistry Active Learning Classroom	Upstate
Cheng, Jack	The Impact of Uncertainty on Business Dynamism Across the U.S. States	Upstate
Dinger, Michael	IT Role Embeddedness and the Professionalism of IT Workers	Upstate
Egbue, Ona	An Online Optimization Approach for Vehicle-to-Grid Systems	Upstate
Harris, Scott	Shrinking Solutions: How Concentrated Policies Exacerbate the Democratic Deficit	Upstate
Herzberg, Tina	Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Hands-on Training on the New STEM Braille Code for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments	Upstate
James, Timothy	Corruption and Troop Strength in Mexico's Army, 1884-1904	Beaufort
Liu, Shuang	"Just One More Rep": Using Fitness Apps and Competition to Motivate Performance and Evaluate Deception	Upstate
Marshall, Nicholas	Development of an initiator for the surface-initiated Kumada polymerization reaction (SI-KCTP)	Aiken
Miller, Kristi	Impact of Patient Safety Curriculum on Student Patient Safety Attitudes and NCLEX Pass Rates.	Upstate
Mueller, Rebecca	Beaumont Mill Village Teacher Workshop	Upstate
Nag, Anita	Proteomic Analyses of SARS Coronavirus Protein nsp1 to Investigate Its Host Shutoff Mechanism	Upstate
Omoike, Anselm	Enhancing Degradation of Bisphenol A (BPA) by Unactivated Peroxymonosulfate: Impact of Chloride Ions and Natural Organic Matter	Upstate
Pazda, Adam	Exploring how the chroma and lightness content of visual imagery relates to emotions	Aiken
Placek, Matthew	Social Media Use and Regime Support Among Opposition Partisans and Non-Partisans in Russia	Upstate
Ramsted, Kristina	Leveraging Bioinformatics for increased power in genomic analyses of American wood storks	Aiken
Rowe, Gerard	Computational Studies of the CO2 Reactivity of a Series of Copper(I) Pyridylamidate Complexes	Aiken
Stolz, Nolan	The Emergence of Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock in Black Sabbath's Music from 1969 to 1971	Upstate
Tanner, Scott	Gene Expression Analysis of Multidrug Resistance Gene Deficient Intestinal Cells during Wound Healing	Upsate
Wade, Julie	State Affect and IT Usage	Upstate
Zhao, Liang	Developing a Secure Decentralized Data Analytics Framework for the Internet of Things	Upstate
Zhong, Wei	Using Multi-level Generative Adversarial Networks to Improve Security and Robustness of Deep Learning Frameworks for Malware Detection	Upstate

2020 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients

 

Recipient Name	Project Title	Campus
Berry, Marybeth	On the Spectrum	Lancaster
Cai, Li	Initial Investigation on the Effects of H2S-Releasing Wound Dressing on Acceleration of Burn Wound Healing	Lancaster
Dangerfield, David	Hard Pressed: Free People of Color in Rural Antebellum South Carolina	Salkehatchie
Grob, Kristina	Embodied Irony: An Emotional Genealogy of American Second-Wave Feminist Beauvoir Scholarship	Sumter
Miller, Sarah	Watching Over the Ruin: The people and their stories from the Pon Pon Chapel of Ease cemetery	Salkehatchie
Ngwane, Fidele	A novel time series model for drought prediction: South Carolina Case Study	Salkehatchie
Rack, Melissa	"'Which even of sweetness sweetest sweet'ner art?:' Paulus Melissus and Neo-Catullan basia in Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella."	Salkehatchie
Sellhorst, Sarah	Perceptions of Undergraduate Research Participation: A Look at the Faculty Perspective	Lancaster
Sixta Rinehart, Christine	Confederate Brothers in Arms: The Quattlebaum Family of South Carolina	Union
Steward, Rodney	William Woods Holden and the Rise of Civil War Era Populism	Salkehatchie