The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to share our monthly report listing new grant awards USC faculty researchers across the university system received between August 1 and August 31. 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 2024 New Grant Awards
| PI Name | PI College/Dept. | Award Title | Sponsor | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinale, Francis |
School of Medicine Basic Science Research |
Center for Clinical and Translational Research at USC (CLINTRUSC) - Admin Core | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $10,869,822 |
| Kiaris, Hippokratis |
College of Pharmacy Drug Discovery & Biomedical Science |
Center for Targeted Therapeutics Phase 3 | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $5,587,500 |
| Wilson-King, Dawn |
College of Arts and Sciences Psychology |
Linking Exercise for Advancing Daily Stress (LEADS) Management and Resilience in Black Families | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHHD)/NIH | $3,166,237 |
| Pellegrini, Christine |
Arnold School of Public Health Exercise Science |
Optimizing a Remote-based Physical Activity Intervention for Adults with Total Knee Replacement | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $3,005,288 |
| Gaillard, Jay |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Engineering & Computing, Dean's Office |
Decarbonizing Light Olefin Production using Advanced Electromagnetic Reactors | RAPID Manufacturing Institute/AIChE/DOE | $1,356,776 |
| Smith, Erik |
College of Arts and Sciences Baruch Institute |
North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve FY24 Operations Award | National Ocean Service (NOS)/NOAA/DOC | $880,967 |
| Barlow, Shayne |
Vice President for Research Office Research, General |
Provision of animal procurement and husbandry for the Dorn VA Medical Center | US Department of Veterans Affairs | $836,603 |
| Dallas, Tad |
College of Arts and Sciences Biological Sciences |
Towards a wormier world: Augmenting and georeferencing the largest host-helminth database | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $792,845 |
| Owens, Otis (Shaun) |
College of Social Work Social Work, Dean's Office |
Home-based Digital Technologies: A Translational Approach to Support Aging-in-Place for Rural African-Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Care Partners | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $734,372 |
| Rotholz, David |
School of Medicine MDC Ctr Disability Resources |
Training Programs and Technical Assistance for Staff | SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN) | $650,028 |
August 2024 Awards by College
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| McLeod, Angela | Communication Sci & Disorders | SPEAK OUT! Parkinson's Interventions | Parkinson Voice Project | $50,000 |
| Ghosal, Rahul | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Social Determinants of Health and Adverse Outcomes in Childhood Cancer (Professional Service Agreement with Prisma) | Prisma/Hyundai Hope on Wheels | $24,734 |
| Kanyangarara, Mufaro | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Enhancing the Survival of Low Birth Weight Infants in Low Resource Settings using an Implementation Science Approach | National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH | $387,876 |
| Perumal, Nandita | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Improving estimation of anemia in GBD | University of Washington/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | $57,962 |
| Arent, Shawn | Exercise Science | (Gianna Mastrofini, Doctoral Student PI) - The Effects of High-Intensity Functional Training versus Traditional Strength Training or Concurrent Training on Performance and Readiness in Tactical Populations | National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Foundation | $14,976 |
| Pellegrini, Christine | Exercise Science | Optimizing a Remote-based Physical Activity Intervention for Adults with Total Knee Replacement | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $3,005,288 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Steinberg, Jonah | Anthropology | Endangered Indic Languages of Europe: Community-Based Documentation of Lesser-Studied Sinti and Romani Varieties of the Mediterranean Rim | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $448,644 |
| Dunn, Robert | Baruch Institute | (Liam Batchelder - PI) Davidson Fellowship - Quantifying Dynamics of Penaeid Shrimp Nursery Habitat Use to Inform Ecosystem Based Management in a Changing World | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/DOC | $107,330 |
| Smith, Erik | Baruch Institute | North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve FY24 Operations Award | National Ocean Service (NOS)/NOAA/DOC | $880,967 |
| Dallas, Tad | Biological Sciences | Towards a wormier world: Augmenting and georeferencing the largest host-helminth database | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $792,845 |
| LoPresti, Eric | Biological Sciences | University of Wyoming - National Park Service Student Grant - Sierra Jaeger | National Park Service (NPS)/DOI | $5,000 |
| Stone, Joshua | Biological Sciences | Collaborative Research: Understanding efficient particulate organic carbon transfer to depth in the ocean’s oxygen minimum zones | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $140,826 |
| Wessinger, Carolyn | Biological Sciences | Collaborative research: CMT: Linking genomic variation to complex floral trait adaptation across a species boundary | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $396,938 |
| Richardson, Susan | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Drinking Water Safety: Occurrence, Formation, and Genotoxicity of New Halocyclopentadiene Disinfection By-Products | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $253,000 |
| Shustova, Natalia | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Preparation of Stimuli-Responsive Materials with Directed Photophysical Behavior | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $400,148 |
| Walters, Wendell | Chemistry & Biochemistry | From Precursors to Particles: Evaluating Chemical Formation and Sources of Aerosols in the Eastern North Atlantic | Department of Energy (DOE) | $517,678 |
| He, Siming | Mathematics | Topics in Mathematical Biology and Fluids | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $122,002 |
| Ju, Lili | Mathematics | Structure-Preserving Linear Schemes for the Diffuse-Interface Models of Incompressible
Two-Phase Flows with Matched Densities |
National Science Foundation (NSF) | $294,473 |
| Wang, Qi | Mathematics | AI-enabled investigation of mechanisms for multiscale ion transport in polymer electrolytes as anion-exchange membranes | US Department of Energy (DOE) | $600,000 |
| Tollefsen, Christopher | Philosophy | Fellowship - Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture | University of Notre Dame | $102,574 |
| Kulkarni, Varsha | Physics & Astronomy | Characterizing Interstellar Dust Extinction in Galaxies and Its Cosmic Evolution | NASA | $396,897 |
| Edmunds, Sarah | Psychology | 3/4: Improving the Part C Early Intervention Service Delivery System for Children with ASD: A Randomized Clinical Trial II - RISE Implementation Science Team | Rush University/NIH | $22,056 |
| Fu, Xiaoxue (Jessie) | Psychology | Early Predictors of Infant-Parent Coordinated Attention and Word Learning in Preterm and Full-Term Infants | National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH | $404,115 |
| Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto | Psychology | Estimation of misspecified structural equation models with latent variables | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $249,999 |
| Shinkareva, Svetlana | Psychology | Neural representation of affective states during narrative listening across the lifespan | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $500,000 |
| Weist, Mark | Psychology | Comprehensive State School Mental Health Policy Academy | Bellwether Education Partners, Inc./The Duke Endowment | $20,000 |
| Wilson-King, Dawn | Psychology | Linking Exercise for Advancing Daily Stress (LEADS) Management and Resilience in Black Families | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHHD)/NIH | $3,166,237 |
| Bulusu, Subrahmanyam | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | The Role of the Russian Shelf and Eurasian Basin on the Beaufort Gyre and Arctic Freshwater
Content |
Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $40,000 |
| Dragovic, Besim | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Collaborative Research: Examining the paleo-thermal structure of the Alpine subduction interface with an integrated petrochronology and geodynamic modeling approach | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $399,282 |
| Fuente, David | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Evaluation of Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium’s (ANTHC) Potable Water Delivery Project | Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | $80,757 |
| Leier, Andrew | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Collaborative Research: Paleoclimatic and tectonic forcing on Neogene sedimentation changes in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $266,168 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Kitzie, Vanessa | School of Information Sciences | Leveraging National Library Partnerships to Develop a Community-Driven Online LGBTQIA+ Consumer Health Guide | Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | $249,000 |
| Mohammadi, Ehsan | School of Information Sciences | Understanding Ph.D. Students' Perceptions and Information Literacy Skills in Interacting with ChatGPT-Generated Content | Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue University | $3,500 |
| Spiering, Jenna | School of Information Sciences | Extending School Librarian Preparation Through Transitional Mentorship with Early Career School Librarians | Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | $374,194 |
| Tu-Keefner, Feili | School of Information Sciences | Project Library PREPARE: Planning, Response, Emergency Preparedness, and Resilience Education | Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) | $249,721 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Andrews, Jeanette | Nursing | 2024-2026 Jonas Scholars Program | Jonas Nursing and Veterans Healthcare (Jonas)/AACN | $12,000 |
| Pinto, Bernardine | Nursing | Making Healthy Habits Stick: Extended Contact Interventions to Promote Long Term Physical Activity in African American Cancer Survivors | University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center/NIH | $31,649 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Kiaris, Hippokratis | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | Center for Targeted Therapeutics Phase 3 | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $5,587,500 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Browne, Teri | Social Work - Dean's Office | Helping Patients Achieve Kidney Transplants through Health System Change | Wake Forest University/PCORI | $27,056 |
| Iachini, Aidyn | Social Work - Dean's Office | ReadySET to Support School Mental Health | USC Educational Foundation/Duke Endowment Foundation | $240,000 |
| Levkoff, Sue | Social Work - Dean's Office | The ADAR Summit Meeting | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $74,959 |
| Owens, Otis (Shaun) | Social Work - Dean's Office | Home-based Digital Technologies: A Translational Approach to Support Aging-in-Place for Rural African-Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease and their Care Partners | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $734,372 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Von Nessen, Joseph | Moore Sch - Div. of Research | SC Quantum: Economic Impact Analysis | SC Quantum | $40,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Hoque, Shamia | Civil & Environmental Eng. | Elucidating Mechanistic Processes Governing Interaction of Viruses With Non-biological Indoor Built Surfaces | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $398,481 |
| Qian, Yu | Civil & Environmental Eng. | Testing Tensar Geogrid in Railroad Ballast in Track Bed | Tensar Corporation, a division of CMC | $50,000 |
| Chandrashekhar, MVS | Electrical Engineering | Phase I SBIR: SiC Low Gain Avalanche Diode (LGAD) for Minimum Ionization Particle (MIP) Sensors | Structured Materials Industries/DOE | $61,870 |
| Mandal, Krishna | Electrical Engineering | Self-powered SiC based photon counting detector for scintillator readout replacing SiPM | Battelle Savannah River Alliance (BSRA)/DOE | $210,000 |
| Mandal, Krishna | Electrical Engineering | Novel 4H-SiC MOS Devices for Self-Biased High-Efficiency Radiovoltaic Batteries | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $448,491 |
| Gaillard, Jay | Eng. & Computing Dean's Office | Decarbonizing Light Olefin Production using Advanced Electromagnetic Reactors | RAPID Manufacturing Institute/AIChE/DOE | $1,356,776 |
| Banerjee, Sourav | Mechanical Engineering | Feasibility Study on Thickness Measurement on Wet Coating During Curing--Fraunhofer Project -- Rolls Royce Portion | Rolls Royce | $61,500 |
| Ling, Yue (Stanley) | Mechanical Engineering | Characterizing the effects of droplet deformation and breakup on the interaction between rain drops and aerodynamic surfaces | U.S. Army Contracting Command/DOD | $470,205 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Barlow, Shayne | Office Research - General | Provision of animal procurement and husbandry for the Dorn VA Medical Center | US Department of Veterans Affairs | $836,603 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Spinale, Francis | Basic Science Research | Center for Clinical and Translational Research at USC (CLINTRUSC) - Admin Core | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $10,869,822 |
| Rotholz, David | MDC Ctr Disability Resources | Training Programs and Technical Assistance for Staff | SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN) | $650,028 |
| Rotholz, David | MDC Ctr Disability Resources | Provision and Training and Certification for Self-Directed Attendant Care for ID/DD and HASCI Waiver Participants | SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN) | $225,000 |
| Reagan, Lawrence | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA for Jayshree Rehm | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $48,509 |
| Wood, Susan | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA: Lawrence Reagan - Neural regulation of susceptibility to hyperarousal | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $14,260 |
| Wood, Susan | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA: Fiona Hollis - Neural regulation of susceptibility to hyperarousal | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $23,573 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Williams, Jameka | Medicine Greenville | Medical Education for Social Justice: Enhancing Equity through a Longitudinal Inclusive Excellence Certificate Program | American Medical Association (AMA) | $40,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Britton, Jeanne | Univ Libraries - Dean's Office | Performing Black British History | Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation | $12,000 |
| Curro, Daniela | Univ Libraries - Dean's Office | Vision and Ambition: William Fox and his Fox Film Corporation as seen through Fox
newsreel outtakes, 1920-1929 |
National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) | $31,400 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Pettay, Daniel | BFT Natural Sciences | Determining bacteria and turbidity sources to inform management and outreach across the Edisto Island Watershed. | Clemson University/SC Sea Grant Consortium/DOC/NOAA | $51,558 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Criswell, Stephen | LAN PALMETTO COLLEGE | Native American Drumming Performance Series | SC Arts Commission | $5,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Waldrop, Susannah | UPS Academic Affairs Admin | Avanzando Through College 2024-25 | UnidosUS | $14,200 |
| Marshall, Elaine | UPS Achieve | USC Upstate ACHIEVE 2024-25 | Upstate Workforce Board/DOL | $523,293 |
| Shorter, Kimberly | UPS Natural Sciences & Eng | In Vitro Identification of miR-718 targets and miR-718-induced epigenetic modifications | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $517,500 |
To request a PDF copy of this report, please contact Elizabeth Renedo at renedoe@mailbox.sc.edu