The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce 29 recipients of the 2024 Research Initiative for Summer Engagement (RISE) program grant awards. These outstanding faculty researchers from USC’s system campuses will receive RISE funding to support their summer research projects.
The RISE Program is an internal grant program 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. 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 2024 class of RISE grant recipients.
2024 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title | College |
|---|---|---|
| Aghasafari, Sahar | ChemArtistry: Integrating Media Arts into the Study of Fundamental Chemistry | Lancaster |
| Bellanca, Mary Ellen | Manuscript Documents on Dorothy Wordsworth's "Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland" | Sumter |
| Burns, Francis Marion | Student Retention and Success in the USC Salkehatchie Rural Nursing Initiative | Salkehatchie |
| Gerald, Amy | The Black Grimkés in Charleston: Building Public Memory from the Trauma of Slavery | Lancaster |
| Judge, Christopher | Searching for Additional Evidence of 16th Century Spanish Artifacts from Excavation’s at the Mulberry Site, Kershaw County, South Carolina. | Lancaster |
| Kunka, Andrew James | So You Think You Know Ambush Bug: Testing the Limits of Superheroes | Sumter |
2024 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title | College |
|---|---|---|
D'Antonio, Edward
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Mapping Spawning Aggregations of Sciaenid Species in the May River Estuary Using Passive Acoustics, Molecular Taxonomy, and Quantitative PCR | Beaufort |
| Davis, Daniel Jonathan | How Social Media Changes Institutions: Exploring the Issue of Water Equity Amidst the 2022 Jackson Mississippi Water Crisis | Upstate |
| Davis, Kara L | Impact of a Medical-Legal Partnership on Patient Healthcare Utilization and Costs | Upstate |
| Egbue, Ona | Charging Forward: Analysis of Opportunities and Challenges Facing Smart Charging Infrastructure for Plug-in Electric Vehicles | Upstate |
| Haratine, Timothy Parker | Anselm of Canterbury on Sin and Evil: A Philosophical Analysis | Aiken |
| Hernandez-Laroche, Araceli | Theorizing the Public Humanities (Special Topic Issue for the PMLA) | Upstate |
| Lahar, Cindy J. | USCB Global Learning Experience Project: Video capture in Cambodia | Beaufort |
| McCormick, Robert B. | The United States and the Wartime Career and Escape of Andrija Artukovic | Upstate |
| McCraw, Benjamin William | Collective Faith: The Social Epistemology of Religious Commitments | Upstate |
| Miller, Matthew L. | Belonging is Far from Home: Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille | Aiken |
| Miller, Neil Eugene | Ionospheric Disturbances due to the Sunspot Cycle and Earthquakes | Aiken |
| Mills, Mary K. | Preparing the manuscript: Egg development in Stomoxys calcitrans and Culicoides sonorensis | Aiken |
| Odhiambo, Calvin | Social Epidemiology of Racial Disparities in Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the United States: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis | Upstate |
| Pazda, Adam | Examining the dehumanization of people with schizophrenia | Aiken |
| Placek, Matthew | Examining the Effectiveness of the Dictator’s Digital Toolkit: Digital Media Use, Misinformation, and Censorship’s Impact on Regime Support in Autocracies | Upstate |
| Saracino, Patrick George | Low Energy Availability Prevalence, Dietary Habits, and Sleep Quality in Female ROTC Cadets | Upstate |
| Shehi Herr, Monika | Making a Baby in South Carolina - A Book Exploring the Causes of Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates in Upstate, South Carolina | Upstate |
| Skees, Murray W | Data: A Ubiquitous Knowledge-Commodity | Beaufort |
| Smith, Olivia Katherine | Belief in misinformation: The impact of correction type and timing of correction | Aiken |
| Stolz, Nolan | Composing "Desert 66" from the Route 66 Suite for Orchestra | Upstate |
| Swain, Laura | Differentiating the role of acetaminophen on cognitive and affective pain empathy | Aiken |
| Wade, Julie | Growth Opportunities, Job Alternatives and the IT Professional: Impacts on Effort and Deviance | Upstate |
| Zhong, Wei | Using Multi-level Generative Pretrained Transformer (MLGPT) to Generate Diverse and Creative Malware Variants | Upstate |
29 February 2024