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 2026 New Grant Awards |
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PI Name |
PI College/Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Rotholz, David |
Floyd School of Medicine MDC Ctr Disability Resources |
Transition Alliance of South Carolina | SC Department of Education (SCDE) | $5,988,860 |
| Yell, Mitchell |
College of Education Educational & Developmental Science |
Academic Alliance of South Carolina (AASC) |
South Carolina Office of Special Education Services (OSES)/SC Department of Education (SCDE) |
$4,650,210 |
| Wang, Yi |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Mechanical Engineering |
Dynamic Reconfigurable Mission Planning on the Edge for UMV Swarms | Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $4,500,000 |
| Santi, Enrico |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Electrical Engineering |
Digital Engineering Framework for Accelerating LVDC Technology Insertion |
Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $4,363,428 |
| Weist, Mark |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Psychology |
Expanding and Sustaining the John H. Magill, SC School Behavioral Health Academy |
SC Department of Health and Human Services (SC DHHS) | $2,524,541 |
| Matchin, William |
Arnold School of Public Health Communication Sci & Disorders |
The Cortical Organization of Syntax: Insights into Grammatical Deficits in Aphasia |
National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)/NIH | $2,466,337 |
| Tang, Chuanbing |
McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry & Biochemistry |
Evolution of Facial Amphiphilicity toward Alternating Copolymers as Antimicrobial
Biomaterials |
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $1,315,625 |
| Adams, Swann |
College of Nursing Biobehavioral Health & Nursing Science |
A Systems Theory Approach to The Study of Colon and Lung Cancer Health Disparities
Using Novel Data Linkages |
National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,017,131 |
| Jackson, Marquise |
Darla Moore School of Business Small Business Dev. Ctr. |
South Carolina Department of Commerce Award Fiscal Year 2026-2027 - (State Director's
Office) |
SC Department of Commerce | $1,000,000 |
| Li, Chen |
Molinaroli College of Engineering & Computing Mechanical Engineering |
ISS: An Experimental Study of Slip Ratio in Microgravity Two-Phase Flows |
National Science Foundation (NSF) | $834,214 |
August 2026 Awards by College
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Matchin, William |
Communication Sci & Disorders | The Cortical Organization of Syntax: Insights into Grammatical Deficits in Aphasia |
National Institute on Deafness & Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)/NIH | $2,466,337 |
| Neils-Strunjas, Jean | Communication Sci & Disorders | SC CREATE 2027 |
SC Department of Education (SCDE) | $605,837 |
| Jilling, Andrea | Environmental Health Sciences | Tracing nitrogen through cover crop, soil organic matter, and cash crop pools across increasing agroecosystem diversity | University of Delaware/USDA | $387,889 |
| Langan, Laura | Environmental Health Sciences | Wastewater surveillance of mass gathering events: a case study | Baylor University/Texas Health and Human Services Commission/Department of State Health Services (Texas) | $50,000 |
| Weaver, Glenn | Exercise Science | (PI - Keagan Kiely) The Impact of Summer on Obesogenic Behaviors and BMI in Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)/NIH | $238,738 |
| Bornstein, Marta |
Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | Student Karen Leon Negreiro's New Mornings Contract | New Morning | $34,516 |
| Frongillo, Edward |
Health Prom., Educ. & Behavior | WISE Scales Analyses (student Nasim Nishat) | Northwestern University | $40,498 |
| Anderson, David | Health Services Policy & Mgmt | Measuring Changes in Medicare Part D Plan Offerings and Enrollment |
Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) | $113,845 |
| Sabo-Attwood, Tara | Public Health - Dean's Office | IPA-Tara Sabo-Attwood |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/HHS | $46,977 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Yell, Mitchell |
Educational & Developmental Science | Academic Alliance of South Carolina (AASC) |
South Carolina Office of Special Education Services (OSES)/SC Department of Education (SCDE) | $4,650,210 |
| Lima de Vasconcelos, Lucas | Leadership, Learning Design & Inquiry | Culturally Relevant Scaffolds for Integrated Computational and Algebraic Thinking | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $399,650 |
| Tang, Hengtao | Leadership, Learning Design & Inquiry | EDU EPSCoR DCL: Towards an assessment framework for engineering students’ ethical AI literacy | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $499,958 |
| Lewis, Ashlee |
Research, Eval., & Measurement | SC Arts Commission Evaluation Services (FY27) | SC Arts Commission | $290,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Adams, Swann |
Biobehavioral Health & Nursing Science | A Systems Theory Approach to The Study of Colon and Lung Cancer Health Disparities Using Novel Data Linkages | National Cancer Institute (NCI)/NIH | $1,017,131 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Von Nessen, Joseph |
Moore Sch - Div. of Research | SC Space Council: ROI Analysis |
CORE SC at College of Charleston/SC State Treasurer | $57,000 |
| Von Nessen, Joseph |
Moore Sch - Div. of Research | NorthMark Strategies Group |
NorthMark Strategies Group | $68,500 |
| Von Nessen, Joseph |
Moore Sch - Div. of Research | South Carolina Arts Commission: Economic Impact Analysis (2026) | SC Arts Commission | $19,500 |
| Jackson, Marquise |
Small Business Dev. Ctr. | South Carolina Department of Commerce Award Fiscal Year 2026-2027 - (State Director's Office) | SC Department of Commerce | $1,000,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Humphrey, Mark |
Family & Preventive Medicine | Prisma Health/USC Floyd School of Medicine Columbia Preventive Medicine Residency Program Public and Rural Health Training (CRPH Agreement Renewal Application_2026-2028) | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare/SCDHSS | $198,928 |
| Rotholz, David |
MDC Ctr Disability Resources | Transition Alliance of South Carolina |
SC Department of Education (SCDE) | $5,988,860 |
| Jackson, J. Benjamin | Orthopaedic Surgery | SafeMedWaste At-Home, Environmentally-Friendly Opioid Disposal Kit for Orthopedic Post-Operative Surgical Patients to Reduce Opioids Available for Diversion | SafeMedWaste, Inc./NIH | $14,401 |
| Busbee, Philip |
Path, Microbio. & Immunology | Microplastic biodistribution and impact on mental health during inflammatory bowel disease | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)/NIH | $140,048 |
| Reagan, Lawrence |
Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | IPA for Jennifer Woodruff |
US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) | $208,066 |
| Ryan, Michael |
Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | (PI - Noelle Frambes) Hypertension, stress, and the kidneys | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | $100,228 |
| Wilson, Marlene | Pharm., Physiology & Neuroscience | VA IPA for Jim Fadel (MA Wilson) |
WJB Dorn VA Medical Center/VA | $155,804 |
| Bell, Floyd | Radiology | Ultrasound Training for Rural Health Providers | SC Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare(SCCRPH)/SCDHHS | $67,200 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| King, Adam |
Archaeology & Anthropology
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Administrative Services for ArchSite II, 2026-2027 | SC Department of Transportation (SC DOT) | $68,100 |
| Ryan, Veronica | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Effect of FTD/ALS mutations in RNA binding proteins on mRNA transport and local translation | National Institute on Aging (NIA)/NIH | $745,125 |
| Shimizu, Ken |
Chemistry & Biochemistry | Collaborative Research: Stimuli Responsive Charge-Transfer Complexes for Measuring Solvophobic Effects and Chiral Recognition of Amines | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $400,000 |
| Shustova, Natalia | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Photochromic Catalysis on the Platforms with On-Demand Mixed-Valence Metal Oxidation States | US Department of Energy (DOE) | $625,381 |
| Tang, Chuanbing | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Evolution of Facial Amphiphilicity toward Alternating Copolymers as Antimicrobial Biomaterials | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)/NIH | $1,315,625 |
| Kim, Tae-Sun |
Physics & Astronomy | Thermal properties of the IGM and CGM: confronting simulations with observations | Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)/NASA | $20,996 |
| Monin, Alexander | Physics & Astronomy | Large Quantum Numbers and Long Strings in Conformal and Confining QFTs | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $100,000 |
| Hudac, Caitlin | Psychology | Capturing behavioral, medical, and neural profiles of profound autism in SCN2A | Autism Science Foundation | $35,000 |
| Weist, Mark | Psychology | Expanding and Sustaining the John H. Magill, SC School Behavioral Health Academy | SC Department of Health and Human Services (SC DHHS) | $2,524,541 |
| Bizimis, Michael | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Sr, Nd, Hf, Os & PGE Isotope Analysis - USGS | United States Geological Survey (USGS)/DOI | $15,750 |
| Bizimis, Michael | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Collaborative Research: The Role of Recycling in the Generation of Lips: Siberian vs. Deccan Traps | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $392,815 |
| Pozo Buil, Maria Mercedes | School of Earth, Ocean & Env. | Identifying Multi-Species Climate Refugia Along the California Coast to Support the 30x30 Initiative | The Regents of the University of California, Santa Cruz/NOAA | $226,613 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Qian, Yu |
Civil & Environmental Eng. | Effect of Geogrid Reinforcement on Track Substructure under Extreme Weather Events | Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)/DOT | $315,000 |
| Fang, Xin |
Electrical Engineering | Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: PowerCyber: Scalable Workforce Development for AI-Enabled Power Grids | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $200,000 |
| Fang, Xin |
Electrical Engineering | Parallel Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow-based Multiscale Frequency Stability-Constrained Unit Commitment with Inverter-based Resources | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $571,614 |
| Santi, Enrico | Electrical Engineering | Digital Engineering Framework for Accelerating LVDC Technology Insertion | Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $4,363,428 |
| Wang, Xiaofeng | Electrical Engineering | Collaborative Research: CPS-FR: PIAS: Performativity-aware Intelligent Autonomous Systems | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $240,000 |
| Li, Chen |
Mechanical Engineering | ISS: An Experimental Study of Slip Ratio in Microgravity Two-Phase Flows | National Science Foundation (NSF) | $834,214 |
| Wang, Yi | Mechanical Engineering | Dynamic Reconfigurable Mission Planning on the Edge for UMV Swarms | Office of Naval Research (ONR)/DOD | $4,500,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Beacham, Frank |
MDG Office for Faculty Affairs | Hearst Primary Care Scholars: Supporting the Primary Care Accelerated Track Program at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville | USC Educational Foundation/William Randolph Hearst Foundation | $100,000
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PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Harmon, Sarah | AK Biology & Geology | Subaward Proposal: Operation of the Engineering Track for the Savannah River Environmental Sciences Field Station 2026 | SC State University/BSRA/SRNL/DOE | $344,064 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Mallory, Brian |
BFT Instnl Eff and Research | USC Beaufort-ITHAKA Rural Student Network |
ITHAKA | $15,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Criswell, Stephen |
LAN PALMETTO COLLEGE | USCL Native American Studies Center Artist in Residence: Shane Tucker | SC Arts Commission/NEA | $6,000 |
PI Name |
PI Dept. |
Award Title |
Sponsor |
Total |
| Pae, Holly |
UPS Human Perform and Hlth | Project CREATE 2026-27 |
SC Department of Education | $60,860 |
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