The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce 29 recipients of the 2023 Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, or RISE, program grant awards. These 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 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 2023 class of RISE grant recipients.
2023 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title | College |
|---|---|---|
| Barideaux, Kenneth James | A Brief Intervention to Increase Knowledge About Graduate School Among Psychology Students | University of SC Upstate |
| Brien, Sinead | Pre-service Science Teachers' Articulation and Revision of Science Teaching Frameworks in a Justice-oriented Methods Class | University of SC Upstate |
| Byun, Sung Hun | Advancing Psychological Intimate Partner Violence Measures | University of SC Upstate |
| Coulombe, Brianne R | Hostile parenting, ADHD, and child behavior | University of SC Aiken |
| Dinger, Michael | Diversity in the IT Workforce: An Empirical Study of IS Labor Market Entrants | University of SC Upstate |
| Elyaderani, Hadis | Enhanced Measurement of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Marketing in Independently Owned Grocers | University of SC Beaufort |
| Hancock, Charles Nathan | Preparation and publication of a manuscript describing a soybean Yellow Leaf mutant | University of SC Aiken |
| King, Sarah Catherine | Crossing the Big Muddy: The Vietnam War, the Revival of Left-Wing Celebrity Activism, and the Transformation of American Popular Culture | University of SC Aiken |
| Lorenz, Alexander | Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Foreign Language Learning | University of SC Upstate |
| McCoy, Erin | Forever Wars: Investigating Methods & Ethics of De-Mining Unexploded Ordinance (UXO) in Southeast Asia | University of SC Beaufort |
| McCraw, Benjamin William | Manipulating Epistemic Trust: Conspiracy Theories as Echo Chambers | University of SC Upstate |
| Mills, Mary K. | A Closer Look into the Regulation of Egg Development across Understudied Insect Vectors | University of SC Aiken |
| Pazda, Adam | Social media use predicts depression and anxiety for people with an avoidant social goal-orientation | University of SC Aiken |
| Placek, Matthew | Social Media, Quality of Democracy, and Support for Democracy in Global Context | University of SC Upstate |
| Shehi Herr, Monika | Making a Baby in South Carolina: A podcast exploring the experiences of six pregnant women in Upstate South Carolina | University of SC Upstate |
| Skees, Murray W | A Critical Theory of Datafication | University of SC Beaufort |
| Stolz, Nolan | Two Essays on Black Sabbath and Other Classic Heavy Metal Bands for Two Edited Volumes | University of SC Upstate |
| Wade, Julie | IT Professionals’ Work-Related Identity: Impacts on Job Search Behavior and Work Effort | University of SC Upstate |
| Zhang, Xudong | Persistent Homology-based Deep Neural Networks for Real-Time Multi-Object Tracking | University of SC Upstate |
2023 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title | College |
|---|---|---|
| Dangerfield, David W. | Strangers in the Land: Mixed-Raced and Indigenous Communities in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1860-1960 | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Elliott, Julia E. | The Colony | Palmetto College |
| Gerald, Amy | The Black Grimkes in Charleston: Building Public Memory of Black Descendants of White Planters | University of SC Lancaster |
| Iden Lindmark, Kirsten Thomas | Gendered Power and Colonial Literacy in the Letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Klik, Kathleen Anne | An Exploration of Faculty Welfare: The Impact of Campus Social and Work Environment on Faculty Outcomes | University of SC Union |
| Kunka, Andrew James | Good Comics: Dell, Gold Key, and the History of Comic Books | University of SC Sumter |
| Mogilski, Justin Kyle | Using causal network analysis to determine which intimate relationship processes cause the Multi-partner Relationship Maintenance Scale (MRMS) practices to improve relationship quality | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Nooe, Franklin (Evan) | Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century US South | University of SC Lancaster |
| Steward, Rodney J | Twisting John Bull's Arm: Sequestration and Confederate Diplomatic Strategy | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Varjosaari, Sami | Elucidating the structure of Pinckneyin, a potential anti-malarial substance found in Georgia Bark (Pinckneya Bracteata) | University of SC Sumter |