The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2019 recipients of the Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, or RISE program grant awards. This year, 33 faculty researchers from USC’s system campuses will receive RISE funding to support their summer research projects.
The RISE Program is an internal funding initiative through which faculty members at USC’s system campuses and Palmetto College have the opportunity to compete for funding to support research and scholarly projects conducted during the summer months. The funds are offered through the Office of the Vice President for Research, with generous support from the chancellors at the four-year system campuses, USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate.
Congratulations to the 2019 class of RISE grant recipients.
Four-Year Campuses
2019 USC Aiken RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Eric Carlson |
Festschrift in Honor of Shaun F.D. Hughes |
| Jeremy Culler |
Addressing the Role of Space in the Art of the Italian Modern Artist Livio Orazio Valentini |
| Gayle Faught |
Trajectories of Sustained Attention, Short-Term Memory, and Language in Down Syndrome |
| Nicholas Marshall |
Unsubstituted conjugated polymer brushes for durable organic photovoltaics |
| Philip Mason | Factors affecting police discretion in intimate partner violence |
| Adam Pazda |
Extraversion predicts gaze attention toward pictures varying in chroma content |
| Kristina Ramstad |
Bioinformatic analysis of RADCap data from the threatened American wood stork (Mycteria americana) |
| Kenneth Roberts |
2,4?-Dihydroxyacetophenone Dioxygenase (DAD): Metal-Dependence and Steady-State Kinetics |
| Laura Swain |
The effect of acetaminophen on pain empathy and mu rhythm suppression: An EEG study |
2019 USC Beaufort RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Kimberly Cavanagh |
The Barnwell Site Project (38BU90) |
| Edward D'Antonio |
Exploration of 3-Nitro-2-Phenyl-2H-Chromene Analogues as Anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Glucose Kinase Inhibitors |
| Erin McCoy |
Tours of War: Completing an Introductory Cultural History of the Vietnam War |
| Caroline Sawyer |
On the Banks of the River: Transmedia Storytelling in USCB?s & SCETV?s By The River |
| Volkan Sevim |
Investigating college algebra students? current pre-requisite understandings and testing the effects of an alternative pre-requisite algebra curriculum: A mixed-methods study |
2019 USC Upstate RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Bradley Baumgarner |
Can low-dose caffeine administration increase lipophagy in mammalian skeletal muscle cells? |
| Chung-Yean Chiang |
Examining the impact of user knowledge and fear appeals on public Wi-Fi information security |
| Matthew Donaldson |
Spartanburg Creative Crosswalk Project |
| Scott Harris |
Not Swinging Together: Partisan Defection in the Age of Political Polarization |
| Polinpapilinho Katina |
Acquisition System Pathology: A Comprehensive Characterization of System Failure Modes and Effects |
| Lex Lancaster |
The Queer Politics of Abstraction in Contemporary Art |
| Sharda Smith |
Economic Indicators in Florida's Education Funding Formula: Reconsidering Income Post-Recession |
| Tracey Woodard |
The effect of sibling relationships on adolescent delinquency associated with maternal incarceration. |
| Wei Zhong |
Predicting Local Protein 3D Structures Using Clustering Deep Recurrent Neural Network |
Palmetto College Campuses
2019 USC Lancaster RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Li Cai |
Factors affecting Student Retention and Success in USC Rural Nursing Initiative |
| Steven Campbell |
Competing for Influence in the Nixon/Carter Administrations: Foreign Policy Advisers & U.S.-Soviet Relations |
| Elizabeth Easley | Contributing to a Body of Knowledge: Exercise Science Considerations Associated with Undergraduate Research |
| Patrick Lawrence |
"All Politics Is Local": Counter-Narratives of Obscenity through the Lens of Community Standards |
2019 USC Salkehatchie RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Francis Burns |
Factors affecting Student Retention and Success in USC Rural Nursing Initiative |
| Eran Kilpatrick |
Plant Specimen Processing at the University of South Carolina Salkehatchie Herbarium and Continued Documentation of Rare and Uncommon Flora in the Salkehatchie Region |
| Sarah Miller |
Pon Pon Chapel of Ease: Preservation and Interpretation |
| Justin Mogilski |
Perceiving physiology and psychology from faces: Expanding analytical options for data-driven face perception research |
2019 USC Sumter RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title |
| Andrew Kunka | Howard Cruse: Critical Graphics Series |
| Damien Picariello | The Politics of Horror |
18 February 2019