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 2025 New Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Tang, Chuanbing |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Engineering Cationic Metallopolymers to Potentiate Antibiotics via Multiple Mechanisms | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)/NIH | $2,110,560 |
| Counts, Althea |
Enrollment Management TRIO Programs |
Student Support Services Program | US Department of Education (USDE) | $2,070,255 |
| Merchant, Anwar |
Arnold School of Public Health Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
The ANTENATAL Study: An ecoNomic evaluaTion of pEriodontal treatmeNt in pregnAnt women and identification of responders to Treatment using mAchine Learning | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)/NIH | $1,839,130 |
| Peng, Zhenmeng |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Chemical Engineering |
Collaborative Research: FEC: Tri-State Collaborative for Defluorination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $1,200,000 |
| Abraham, Michele |
Darla Moore School of Business Small Business Dev. Ctr. |
South Carolina Department of Commerce Award Fiscal Year 2025-2026 - (State Director's Office) | SC Department of Commerce (SCDOC) | $1,000,000 |
| Vasquez, Paula |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Mathematics |
DMS/NIGMS 2: Quantitative understanding of micellar behavior as drug delivery systems - Collaborative Research | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $989,554 |
| Barazanchy, Darun |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Mechanical Engineering |
ATI - Thermoplastic Induction Welding Repair | Advanced Technology International (ATI)/DOD | $773,862 |
| Poulain, Fabienne |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Biological Sciences |
Role of proteoglycan-mediated trans-axonal signaling in pre-target topographic sorting | National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke(NINDS)/NIH | $766,787 |
| Newman, Susan |
College of Nursing Biobehavioral Health & Nursing Science |
Advancing Disability Inclusion in Nursing (ADIN): Building Capacity for Education and Employment Pathways | USC Educational Foundation/The Duke Endowment | $669,000 |
August 2025 Awards by College
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Cook, Larry |
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SC DES Collegiate Recycling Grant for Fiscal Year 2026 | SC Department of Environmental Services (DES) | $10,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Gillam, Pamela |
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Implementation of a Statewide CHNA/CHIP Learning Collaborative | Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina (The Duke Endowment c/o AHSC) | $368,624 |
| Boghossian, Nansi | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | NEST: Neonatal Excellence in Supporting Transitions | USC Educational Foundation/The Duke Endowment | $572,000 |
| Merchant, Anwar | Epidemiology & Biostatistics | The ANTENATAL Study: An ecoNomic evaluaTion of pEriodontal treatmeNt in pregnAnt women and identification of responders to Treatment using mAchine Learning | National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)/NIH | $1,839,130 |
| Frongillo, Edward | Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Food Safety Experiences Scale Phase 2 | International Food Policy Research Institute | $49,989 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Guest, Jessie | Educational & Developmental Science | From Classroom to Living Room: Equipping School-Based Mental Health Professionals to Support Aiken County Students and their Families | USC Educational Foundation/The Duke Endowment | $636,000 |
| Stodden, David | Physical Education | (Grad Student Award: Ozgur Altintas) Assessment for Physical Education (PE) in K-12 Educational Settings: A Cross-Sectional Study | International Motor Development Research Consortium | $1,000 |
| Lewis, Ashlee | Research, Eval., & Measurement | Evaluation of Arts Grow SC 25-26 (FY26) | SC Arts Commission | $275,000 |
| Muller, Meir | Teacher Education | Claiming Space: Establishing the Jewish Scholars and Scholarship in Education SIG at AERA | Academic Engagement Network | $10,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Newman, Susan | Biobehavioral Health & Nursing Science | Advancing Disability Inclusion in Nursing (ADIN): Building Capacity for Education and Employment Pathways | USC Educational Foundation/The Duke Endowment | $669,000 |
| Magwood, Gayenell | Office of Research - Nursing | South Carolina Clinical & Translational Research Institute (SCTR) | Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)/NIH | $601,293 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Buckhaults, Phillip | Drug Discovery & Biomed Sci. | COVID19 and the Molecular Determinants of Genome Integrity over Human Lifespan | USC Educational Foundation/Kanro Ltd, d.b.a. Kanro Filantropic Fund | $233,000 |
| Cai, Chao | Pharm - Clin Pharm & Outcomes Sciences | AI-Enabled Models for Predicting Cardiac Events in Patients on QT-Prolonging Medications | SC EPSCoR | $70,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Brown Gamble, Shena | Child and Family Studies, Center for | Advanced Child Welfare Training for the South Carolina Department of Social Services | SC Department of Social Services (DSS) | $482,715 |
| Baughman, Amber | Social Work - Dean's Office | SCDSS Evaluation and Other Research Contract | SC Department of Social Services (DSS) | $95,305 |
| Iachini, Aidyn | Social Work - Dean's Office | Rural Occupations Workforce Expansion (ROWE): Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of the ROWE Community Scholars and ROWE Practitioner Initiatives | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHHS | $200,000 |
| Xu, Yanfeng | Social Work - Dean's Office | Strengthening mental health provider capacity to provide trauma-informed, resiliency-based, and family-centered telemental health services to children and youth involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems in rural South Carolina: An artific | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHHS | $100,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Savage, Jeffrey | Moore Sch - Div. of Research | CuffMate - VentureWell Program Application | National Collegiate Investors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) d/b/a VentureWell | $5,000 |
| Von Nessen, Joseph | Moore Sch - Div. of Research | Laurens County Development Corporation: Economic Impact Analysis | Laurens County Development Corporation | $77,550 |
| Abraham, Michele | Small Business Dev. Ctr. | South Carolina Department of Commerce Award Fiscal Year 2025-2026 - (State Director's Office) | SC Department of Commerce (SCDOC) | $1,000,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Counts, Althea | TRIO Programs | Student Support Services Program | US Department of Education (USDE) | $2,070,255 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Magradey, Karen | Koger Center | Barrier Free Arts SC - Koger Center for the Arts | South Carolina Arts Commission | $3,500 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| King, Adam | Archaeology & Anthropology | Roper Mountain Science Center Testing Project | Roper Mountain Science Center - Greenville County Schools | $17,983 |
| LoPresti, Eric | Biological Sciences | Collaborative Research: Research Infrastructure: Bringing historic collections into the 21st century: Digitization of Southeastern Lepidopteran collections | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $197,825 |
| Poulain, Fabienne | Biological Sciences | Role of proteoglycan-mediated trans-axonal signaling in pre-target topographic sorting | National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke(NINDS)/NIH | $766,787 |
| Chen, Yan-Hua | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Enhanced Understanding of Sandy Run Hide Using Biochemical and Morphological Approaches | Devro, Inc. | $27,200 |
| Tang, Chuanbing | Chemistry & Biochemistry | All Biobased Polyphenol-Derived Adhesives | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $480,000 |
| Tang, Chuanbing | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Engineering Cationic Metallopolymers to Potentiate Antibiotics via Multiple Mechanisms | National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)/NIH | $2,110,560 |
| Luo, Ruth | Mathematics | Extremal problems related to cycles and spanning structures in graphs and hypergraphs | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $182,492 |
| Thorne, Frank | Mathematics | Fourier Analysis in Arithmetic Statistics | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $263,153 |
| Vasquez, Paula | Mathematics | DMS/NIGMS 2: Quantitative understanding of micellar behavior as drug delivery systems - Collaborative Research | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $989,554 |
| McDaniel, Heather | Psychology | An Integrative Data Analysis of the Coping Power Program: Exploration of Academic Outcomes, Subgroup Effects, Mechanisms, and Implementation Factors | University of Virginia/USDE | $100,015 |
| McQuillin, Samuel | Psychology | Development and Evaluation of a Professional Certificate in Youth Mentoring | Friends of the Children/OJJPD/DOJ | $100,000 |
| Bizimis, Michael | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Radiogenic Isotope and Platinum Group Element Analysis by the Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry (CEMS) Services for the USGS | US Geological Survey (USGS)/DOI | $18,850 |
| Romero, Isabel | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Surveillance of Pollution from Emerging Chemical Threats in Tampa Bay | University of South Florida/NOAA | $107,584 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Gower, R. Michael | Chemical Engineering | IPA (Regina Aramburo Williams) to support project number I01RX004564-01A2. | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $86,926 |
| Peng, Zhenmeng | Chemical Engineering | Collaborative Research: FEC: Tri-State Collaborative for Defluorination of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $1,200,000 |
| Barazanchy, Darun | Mechanical Engineering | ATI - Thermoplastic Induction Welding Repair | Advanced Technology International (ATI)/DOD | $773,862 |
| De Backer, Wout | Mechanical Engineering | Small Satellite Summer School (S4) - USC Ground Station | Coastal Carolina University/SCRA | $8,000 |
| Gray, Joshua | Mechanical Engineering | Measuring Mass Flow of Hydrogen Isotopes Research | Savannah River Nuclear Solutions/DOE | $96,159 |
| Ling, Yue (Stanley) | Mechanical Engineering | Collaborative Research: CDS&E: Data-driven next-generation Lagrangian models for swarms of deforming and interacting droplets | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $329,976 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Toriello, Paul | Basic Science Research | Rural Resilience Clinic: Filling the Service Gaps to Promote Adolescent Mental Health | USC Educational Foundation/The Duke Endowment | $573,000 |
| Humphrey, Mark | Family & Preventive Medicine | Prisma Health/UofSC School of Medicine Columbia Preventive Medicine Residency Program Public and Rural Health Training (CRPH Agreement Renewal Application) | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHSS | $78,124 |
| Edwards, Janice | Genetics | Huntington’s Disease Society of America (HDSA) Center of Excellence , Level 2 | Prisma Health-Midlands/Huntington's Disease Society of America | $5,001 |
| Ahuja, Divya | Internal Medicine | REACH: Rural Re-Engagement and Care using Community Health Workers for Persons with HIV | SC Department of Public Health (DPH)/CDC | $214,860 |
| Al-hasan, Majdi | Internal Medicine | Housing First Program for Persons with Disabilities | City of Columbia | $280,000 |
| Al-hasan, Majdi | Internal Medicine | Title: Continuation: Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative of SC (ASC-SC) | Prisma Health - Midlands/SCCRPH/SCDHHS | $338,607 |
| Rotholz, David | MDC Ctr Disability Resources | SC Developmental Disability Council Professional Services | SC Developmental Disability Council/ACL/HHS | $33,772 |
| Oskeritzian, Carole | Path, Microbio. & Immunology | Unraveling FcepsilonRI-independent regulation of mast cell functions by the ITCH ubiquitin ligase | National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID)/NIH | $409,750 |
| Roberts, Carla | Pediatrics | Sickle Cell Disease Center of Excellence | Prisma Health - Upstate/SCDPH | $45,172 |
| Reagan, Lawrence | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA for Dr. Claudia Grillo | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $84,680 |
| Wood, Susan | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA Shannon Harrington -- Neural Regulation of susceptibility to hyperarousal | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $161,856 |
| Wood, Susan | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA Fiona Hollis -- Neural Regulation of susceptibility to hyperarousal | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $23,573 |
| Wood, Susan | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA Lawrence Reagan -- Neural Regulation of susceptibility to hyperarousal | WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $14,946 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Springhart, Jennifer | Medicine Greenville | University of South Carolina School of Medicine- Greenville | Medical College of Wisconsin - Kern National Network for Flourishing in Medicine/Kern Family Foundation, Inc. | $3,500 |
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 | $24,741 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Karls, Amanda | UPS INSTIT EFFECTIVENESS & RESEARC | FY26 DES Collegiate Recycling Grant | Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling - SC Department of Environmental Services (SCDES) | $10,000 |
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