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Office of the Vice President for Research

New Monthly Grant Awards Report: October 2025

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 October 1 and October 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.

 

Get the October 2025 New Grant Awards Report (pdf).

 

Summary of Large October 2025 New Grant Awards

PI Name

PI College/Dept.

Award Title

Sponsor

Total

Roberts, Jane

McCausland College of Arts and Sciences

Psychology

Translation of the FMR1 Premutation Phenotypes Across the Lifespan

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH

$6,360,269

Bonilha, Leonardo

School of Medicine

Neurology

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Treat Aphasia: A Superiority Study

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)/NIH

$5,880,204

Beets, Michael

Arnold School of Public Health

Exercise Science

Efficacy of Center-based Childcare to Mitigate Unhealthy Weight Gain in Preschoolers from Low-income Households During the Summer

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH

$3,116,208

Larson, Leila

Arnold School of Public Health

Healt Prom., Educ. & Behavior

Impact of combined nutrition, responsive parenting, and health intervention on childhood development (BUNDLE) study

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH

$2,725,228

Heyden, Andreas

Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing

Chemical Engineering

Development of Ferromagnetic Catalysts through Spin Manipulation for On-Demand Hydrogen Production

DOE EPSCOR

$2,499,999

Vogler, Kenneth

College of Education

Teacher Education

Our Founding Principles: Preparing Educators for America’s Semiquincentennial and Beyond

US Department of Education (USDE)

$2,179,517

Porter, Dwayne

Arnold School of Public Health

Environmental Health Sciences

Operational Support of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System Centralized Data Management Office
and Enhancements to the System-Wide Monitoring Program

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/DOC

$880,967

Wang, Sicheng

McCausland College of Arts and Sciences

Geography

Optimizing SCDOT’s Permitting, Mitigation, and Compliance Systems to Improve Project Delivery

SC Department of Transportation (SCDOT)

$799,999

zur Loye, Hans-Conrad

McCausland College of Arts and Sciences

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Developing the Chemistry of Np, Pu, and Am Containing Extended Oxide Structures

US Department of Energy (DOE)

$693,004

Martin, Maria

Arnold School of Public Health

PASOS

DPH-MCHB and PASOs Partnership

SC Department of Public Health (DPH)/HRSA/HHS

$600,000


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