The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2022 recipients of the Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, or RISE program grant awards. This year, 33 faculty researchers from UofSC’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 UofSC’s system campuses 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 2022 class of RISE grant recipients.
2022 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients
Recipient Name |
Project Title |
College |
| Bareiss, Warren | Celebrity Suicide as Opportunity for Public Education: Reference to Professional Medical Sources in U.S. Press Coverage Following the Suicide of CNN Food Expert, Anthony Bourdain | University of SC Upstate |
| Boersner Herrera, Adriana | Elite Purges in Venezuela | University of SC Aiken |
| Coulombe, Brianne | Prosocial resilience: The role of narrative coherence | University of SC Aiken |
| Dinger, Michael | Embeddedness and the Experience of Employment Shocks Among the IT Workforce | University of SC Upstate |
| Ellis, Allison | Examining the Reach of the REACH Act: Does civic education increase democratic attitudes and engagement? | University of SC Upstate |
| Hernandez-Laroche, Araceli | Case Study on South Carolina Centro Latino for The Routledge Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship | University of SC Upstate |
| Jones Williams, Morgin | Audacious Minds: An Educational Play Featuring Black Women Mathematicians | University of SC Beaufort |
| Liao, Yin-chi | Linguistic Styles, Persuasion, and Crowdfunding Performance | University of SC Upstate |
| Marshall, Nicholas | Controlling self-assembly processes on indium tin oxide electrodes using an applied external potential | University of SC Aiken |
| McConnell, Thomas | A Plague within a Plague | University of SC Upstate |
| McCraw, Benjamin | Pathologies of Trust: Social Epistemological Epidemiology | University of SC Upstate |
| Miller, Matthew | Staging Global Conflicts as Local Life: Claude McKay's Amiable with Big Teeth | University of SC Aiken |
| Nag, Anita | Analysis and implementation of inquiry-driven learning in course-based undergraduate research | University of SC Upstate |
| O'Connor, James | Examining Bayesian Estimates of Statistical Significance in Pareto Analysis | University of SC Upstate |
| Pate, George | Can We Be Funny? The Lines and Limits of Comedy in the 21st Century | University of SC Beaufort |
| Paul, Titan | Entropy Generation of Nanoparticles Enhanced Ionic Liquids (NEILs) for Solar Thermal Applications | University of SC Aiken |
| Ruppel, Susan | The Effects of Class Size and Length on Non-Academic Electronic Device Usage | University of SC Upstate |
| Tanner, Scott | Impact of increased wound healing in MDR-deficient intestinal cells as a model for inflammatory bowel disease | University of SC Upstate |
| Webb, Ginny | Examining the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccine acceptance | University of SC Upstate |
| Woodworth, Griffin | Prince: Musicologist | University of SC Upstate |
| Zelmer, Derek | Determinants of Population Asynchrony in Parasites of Sunfishes (Centrarchidae) | University of SC Aiken |
| Zhang, Xiaomei | Enabling PeerCloud in Vehicular Networks: Feasibility and Reliability of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Offloading | University of SC Beaufort |
2022 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients
Recipient Name |
Project Title |
College |
| Berry, Marybeth | The Deconstruction of Athol Fugard's "The Island" | Lancaster |
| Dangerfield, David | Shades of Gray: Non-White Confederate Soldiers, Race, and Citizenship in the South Carolina Lowcountry | Salkehatchie |
| Fenimore, Wanda | It's a Great Day in South Carolina: Nikki Haley's Lessons from the New South | Sumter |
| Frontero, Vincent | English Translation of Maria Luisa Spaziani's Pallottoliere celeste (Celestial Abacus): Filling a Gap in 20th and 21st Century Feminist Poetry | Sumter |
| Grob, Kristina | Connecting Appreciative Advising to the Academic Disciplines | Sumter |
| Obi-Johnson, Bettie | Optimization of SPME Arrow Sampling for In-Situ Floral Scent Analysis | Lancaster |
| Picariello, Damien | A Fistful of Politics (RISE Palmetto College Campuses) | Sumter |
| Rack, Melissa | The Protestant Legacy of Paulus Melissus: A unique copy of Melissa Schediasmata poetica; secundo edita multo auctiora (1586) at the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli | Salkehatchie |
| Schafer, Emily | Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Mental Health of College Students on Two-Year Campuses | Union |
| Seipel, Peter | Effective Altruism: What Do We Owe to the Global Poor? | Lancaster |
| Swails, Nahid | A unique approach towards joining process for shape memory alloys | Lancaster |
8 April 2022