The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to share our monthly report listing new grant awards UofSC faculty researchers across the university system received between Monday, August 1 and Wednesday, August 31, 2022. Please note that some awards received toward the end of that period might have missed the reporting cut-off. In such cases, the award will be listed in the next monthly report. Our office is proud to share these successes with the university research community. Please join us in congratulating our excellent researchers on their new grant awards.
Summary of Large August 2022 Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Hebert, James Murphy, Angela Hosfeth, Lorne |
Arnold School of Public Health Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
A Transdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Metabolic Dysregulation in Obese Parent and Child Dyads and Risk of Colorectal Cancer | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $5,869,948 |
| Weist, Mark |
College of Arts and Sciences Psychology |
Development and Implementation of a SC School Behavioral Health Academy | South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) | $3,224,526 |
| Roninson, Igor |
College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. |
Preventing adaptive drug resistance through Mediator kinase inhibition | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $3,043,009 |
| Imran, Jasim |
College of Engineering & Comp. Civil & Environmental Eng. |
LEAP-HI: A data-driven Fragility Framework for Risk Assessment of Levee Breach | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $2,000,000 |
| Xu, Peisheng |
College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. |
Cancer cell selective killing nanoparticle for advanced ovarian cancer treatment | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,692,530 |
| Fadel, Jim |
School of Medicine Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience |
Hypocretin/orexin modulation of cognitive correlates of brain aging | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $1,100,907 |
| Heyden, Andreas |
College of Engineering & Comp. Chemical Engineering |
Collaborative Research: ECO-CBET: Coupled homogeneous and heterogeneous processes for an environmentally sustainable lignin-first biorefinery | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $860,000 |
| Rosario, Astrid |
University of SC Upstate UPS Science & Eng |
Increasing Undergraduate Success in Science through Learning Cohorts Focused on Career Readiness | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $749,998 |
| Francis, Tanner |
College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. |
Substance P-Mediated Enhancement of Salience for Cues Predicting Aversive Outcomes | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)/NIH | $734,503 |
| Khan, Asif |
College of Engineering & Comp. Electrical Engineering |
Development of A New High Temperature Source Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition System (HTS-MOCVD) for Next Generation IIIA/B-Nitrides | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $629,656 |
August 2022 Awards by College
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Smithwick, Julie | Center for Community Health Alignment | Enhancement of Telehealth Skills & Capacity for At-Risk South Carolinians | SC Research Foundation (SCRF)/Fullerton Foundation | $138,000 |
| Hebert, James Murphy, Angela Hosfeth, Lorne |
Epidemiology & Biostatistics | A Transdisciplinary Approach to Investigating Metabolic Dysregulation in Obese Parent and Child Dyads and Risk of Colorectal Cancer | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $5,869,948 |
| Arent, Shawn | Exercise Science | Improving Neuroprotection, Cognitive Function, and Mental Focus with Neurodegradation Countermeasure | AmpHP, Inc dba Momentous/US Air Force/DOD | $232,169 |
| Moore, Robert | Exercise Science | IPA Agreement with Dorn VA Medical Center - Adam Harrison | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $52,119 |
| Potter, Elizabeth | Exercise Science | Feasibility of a clinic-to-community partnership providing vouchers to promote healthy
food access among SNAP families with food insecurity |
Prisma Health - Upstate | $19,966 |
| Frongillo, Edward | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | The Effect of Social Capital on Global Food Insecurity | Economic Research Service/USDA | $30,000 |
| Frongillo, Edward | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Promoting Nutrition Security by Examining the Relationships between Food Insecurity and Nutrition and Health Indicators in Federal Data | Economic Research Service/USDA | $30,000 |
| Li, Xiaoming | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | BDHC Excellence Pilot Project: A two-pronged big data approach to critically analyze Strongyloides stercoralis infections among rural, impoverished South Carolina residents | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare, UofSC School of Medicine Educational Trust/SC DHHS | $15,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Fisher, John | Archaeology & Anthropology | Phase I Survey of a 20-acre Tract for the River Falls Access Area, Greenville County, South Carolina | SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) | $14,829 |
| Fu, Zhengqing | Biological Sciences | Coordination of Plant Growth and Defense Through Key Regulators in Salicylic Acid and Brassinosteroid Pathways | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $574,446 |
| Hollis, Brian | Biological Sciences | Experimental speciation and the genomics of reinforcement in Drosophila | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $383,432 |
| Wang, Qian | Chemistry & Biochemistry | MRI: Acquisition of the MALDI-MS rapifleX system as an analytical tool to support multidisciplinary research at University of South Carolina | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $470,000 |
| Cutter, Susan | Geography | Assessment of Resilience Best Practices and Metrics in support of State Resilience Planning Efforts | South Carolina Office of Resilience | $65,000 |
| Dow, Kirstin | Geography | Heat Mapping in RIchland County | Richland County Conservation Commission | $6,250 |
| Hiscox, April | Geography | Radar-based Spray Drift Detection and Quantification System | Application Insight, LLC/USDA | $23,053 |
| Schulz, Constance | History | The South Carolina Revolutionary Era Pinckney Papers Projects: Preserving the Digital Research Assets of Two Digital Documentary Editions - Final Year | National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) | $100,000 |
| Binev, Peter | Mathematics | Foundations of Computational Mathematics Conference – FoCM 2023 | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $49,500 |
| Sun, Yi | Mathematics | Hybrid Kinetic Monte Carlo Methods with Applications in Biofabrication and Epidemics | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $176,321 |
| Federico, Alexis | Psychology | Infant Predictors of ADHD and ASD Symptomology | National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH | $125,721 |
| Hudac, Caitlin | Psychology | BioGENE Study at the Simons Searchlight 2022 Family Meeting | Simons Foundation | $15,000 |
| Quattlebaum, Mary | Psychology | Integrating Family Resilience and Cultural Assets to Inform the LEADS Health Promotion Trial with African American Families | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $116,256 |
| Weist, Mark | Psychology | Development and Implementation of a SC School Behavioral Health Academy | South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) | $3,224,526 |
| Fuente, David | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Meq unguvatkarput (water is our livelihood) - building community resilience for the future | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $55,827 |
| Habing, Brian | Statistics | IPA for NISS Associate Director for Education Activities and Research | National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) | $74,528 |
| Milling, Stephanie | Theatre and Dance | Culturally Responsive Dance Pedagogy as a Vehicle for SEL and Responding to Learning
Loss in Dance Education |
SC Arts Commission | $15,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Lewis, Ashlee | Research, Eval., & Measurement | South Carolina Arts Assessment Program (SCAAP) | SC Department of Education (SCDE) | $80,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Heyden, Andreas | Chemical Engineering | Collaborative Research: ECO-CBET: Coupled homogeneous and heterogeneous processes for an environmentally sustainable lignin-first biorefinery | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $860,000 |
| White, Ralph | Chemical Engineering | Battery Cell High Frequency Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) Measurement
and Model Development |
General Motors (GM) Holdings LLC | $239,784 |
| Dykstra, Steven | Civil & Environmental Eng. | Assessing sea-level rise and flooding changes in the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta using historical water-level records | California Polytechnic State University/US Bureau of Reclamation/DOI | $40,529 |
| Imran, Jasim | Civil & Environmental Eng. | LEAP-HI: A data-driven Fragility Framework for Risk Assessment of Levee Breach | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $2,000,000 |
| Jamshidi, Pooyan | Computer Science & Engineering | Collaborative Research: EAGER: Towards a Design Methodology for Software-Driven Sustainability | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $100,001 |
| Zhang, Qi | Computer Science & Engineering | CCRI: Planning-C: Planning to Build Digital Infrastructure for Real-Time, Continual, and Intelligent Transportation Analysis and Management | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $93,702 |
| Khan, Asif | Electrical Engineering | Development of A New High Temperature Source Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition System (HTSMOCVD) for Next Generation IIIA/B Nitrides | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $629,656 |
| Zhang, Bin | Electrical Engineering | An FMCW Radar based Cable Remaining Useful Life Estimator | Alex and Alice, Inc/US Army AVN and Missile CMD | $69,200 |
| Gholizadeh, Sona | Eng. & Computing Dean's Office | ECR: BCSER: Generational Family Patterns, and Engineering Entry and Persistence; A
Bowen Family Systems Approach |
National Science Foundation (NSF) | $349,999 |
| Banerjee, Sourav | Mechanical Engineering | Fully Autonomous Omnidirectional Adaptive Robots for the disinfection and decontamination of transit assets | Advent Innovations Limited Company/DOT | $100,000 |
| Besmann, Theodore | Mechanical Engineering | Joint Appointment with Oak Ridge National Lab | UT-Battelle c/o Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)/DOE | $68,572 |
| Harik, Ramy | Mechanical Engineering | (PI: Matthew Godbold) - GRF 2022-23: Inspection Influenced Manufacturing: Characterization of an Automated Fiber Placement System | College of Charleston/SC Space Grant Consortium/NASA | $16,000 |
| Wang, Yi | Mechanical Engineering | Configurable Parametric Aeroservoelastic Reduced Order Models for Aerostructural Sensing and Control | CFD Research Corporation/NASA | $43,996 |
| Wang, Yi | Mechanical Engineering | Improving Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction of Winter Cyclones using
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning |
CFD Research Corporation/NASA | $35,999 |
| Yuan, Lang | Mechanical Engineering | Numerical investigation of freckling in the Vaccum Arc Remelting process | TDY Insustries, LLC dba ATI Specialty Materials | $114,788 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Francis, Tanner | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Substance P-Mediated Enhancement of Salience for Cues Predicting Aversive Outcomes | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)/NIH | $734,503 |
| Roninson, Igor | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Preventing adaptive drug resistance through Mediator kinase inhibition | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $3,043,009 |
| Xu, Peisheng | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Cancer cell selective killing nanoparticle for advanced ovarian cancer treatment | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,692,530 |
| Fabel, Patricia | Pharm - Clin Pharm & Outcomes Sciences | Community Pharmacy-Provided Maternal Health Services Training and Implementation Toolkit Program Pilot | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare, UofSC School of Medicine Educational Trust/SC DHHS | $105,975 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Hardaway, Chad | Ofc of Economic Engagement | USC STEM Workforce Development Network | Economic Development Administration (EDA)/DOC | $548,090 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Hudson, Simon | Hotel, Restaurant & Tour Mgmt | An online toolkit for tourism success post-pandemic | Economic Development Administration (EDA) - US Department of Commerce (DOC) | $144,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Busbee, Philip | Path, Microbio. & Immunology | 2022 Careers in Immunology Fellowship | American Association of Immunologists | $55,227 |
| Fadel, Jim | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | Hypocretin/orexin modulation of cognitive correlates of brain aging | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $1,100,907 |
| Wilson, Marlene | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | VA Contract: Pujhari Molecular and Viral Services | Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | $106,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Boyd, Kate | Univ Libraries - Dean's Office | Underrepresented Perspectives in South Carolina Newspapers | National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) | $314,620 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Shervette, Virginia | AK Biology & Geology | Maximizing utility of eye lens core isotopic information for fisheries management: ageing validation and natal origins of reef fishes across the southeastern U.S. and U.S. Caribbean | US Department of Commerce (DOC) | $299,962 |
| Martin, Melissa | AK School of Education | SC CREATE 22-23 | South Carolina Department of Education/USDE | $102,845 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Angell, Eliot | BFT Fine Arts | USCB Emerging Artists 2023-2024 | South Carolina Arts Commission/SCDE/OESE - USDE | $11,865 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Rosario, Astrid | UPS Science & Eng | Increasing Undergraduate Success in Science through Learning Cohorts Focused on Career Readiness | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $749,888 |
| Tanner, Scott | UPS Science & Eng | MaKenna DeYoung Histochemical Society | The Histochemical Society | $1,000 |
To request a PDF copy of this report, please contact Elizabeth Renedo at renedoe@mailbox.sc.edu