Each year, the Office of the Vice President for Research is proud to offer a variety of internal funding programs for faculty and student researchers across the USC system, at every level. To ensure these programs are effective and successful, we count on the support of faculty partners who serve on review committees and mentor student researchers. We are so fortunate to have many faculty members who generously share their expertise to support these programs each year.

To celebrate the outstanding faculty members who pitch in year after year, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Distinguished Research Service Awards and Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards.

Distinguished Research Service Award recipients have demonstrated exceptional commitment to USC’s research community through consistent service as reviewers and committee members for our internal funding and awards programs.

Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awardees have dedicated extensive time and energy to guiding undergraduate students through the research process, from developing projects to teaching research methods and skills to providing the support needed for a student to see their project through.

Please join the Office of Research in congratulating our 2024 Distinguished Research Service Award and Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Award recipients.

 

2024 Distinguished Research Service Awards

Lydia Brandt, Ph.D., Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, College of Arts and Sciences

Philip Brookins, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Darla Moore School of Business

Francis Burns, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, USC Salkehatchie

April DeLaurier, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences, USC Aiken

Sayward Harrison, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences

Angela Murphy, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, School of Medicine Columbia

 

2024 Distinguished Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards

Claudia Grillo, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Neuroscience, School of Medicine-Columbia

Johannes Stratmann, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences

Laura Swain, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, USC Aiken

Aaron Vannucci, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Arts and Sciences

 

14 March 2024