This grants database lists recent external grants received in the college. As you ponder your external funding opportunities, we hope it will help you see the variety of projects Arts and Sciences researchers are pursuing with support from a significant number of sponsors.
| Date | Principal Investigator | Sponsor | Amount | Project Title | Keywords (hidden column) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2022 | Dustin Whitehead, Theatre and Dance | SC Film Commission - SC Department of Parks Recreation and Tourism | $100,000 | South Carolina Film Training Partnership | |
| May 2022 | Jie Li, Chemistry | American Society of Pharmacognosy | $5,000 | American Society of Pharmacognosy Starter Grant | |
| May 2022 | Linda Shimizu, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $470,150 | Functional nanotubes from self-assembling bis-urea macrocycles | NSF |
| May 2022 | Chuanbing Tang, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $395,000 | Collaborative Research: Mechanochemistry of Metallocenes | NSF |
| May 2022 | Hui Wang, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $487,098 | Ligand Dynamics and Chemistry on Locally Curved Metallic Nanoparticle Surfaces | NSF |
| May 2022 | Varsha Kulkarni, Physics | College of Charleston, SC Space Grant, NASA | $16,000 | Unraveling the Structure and Star Formation History of Polar Ring Galaxies | |
| May 2022 | Kirstin Dow, Geography | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $450,000 | Addressing geographical and social diversity in heat-health messaging | NOAA, DOC |
| May 2022 | Zhenlong Li, Geography | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $34,993 | Creating a GIS-Based Siting Tool for Mariculture Site Selection | NOAA |
| May 2022 | Mariah Kornbluh, Psychology | Queen's University of Belfast/World Templeton Charity Foundation | $6,533 | Truth: Empowering flourishing through epistemic vigilance | |
| April 2022 | Daniel Speiser, Biological Sciences | Air Force Research Laboratory | $33,241 | Efficient visual processing by molluscs with distributed sensor arrays and less-centralized nervous systems | |
| April 2022 | Dmitry Peryshkov, Chemistry | National Science Foundation | $456,907 | Redox-Active Carborane Clusters for Metal-Free Bond Activation | NSF |
| April 2022 | Christopher Tollefsen, Philosophy | George Mason University | $7,000 | Academic Freedom on Campus Lecture Series | |
| April 2022 | Kristen McLaurin, Psychology | National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health | $262,289 | Neurocognitive Impairments Resulting from Adolescent Prescription Opioid Use Disorder: Longitudinal Impact, Neural Mechanisms, and Comorbidities | NIDA, NIH |
| April 2022 | Chester DePratter, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | U.S. Marine Corps, Department of Defense | $9,889 | Identification and Labeling of Charlesfort/Santa Elena Slides and Photos | DoD |
| April 2022 | Subrahmanyam Bulusu, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | Florida State University, National Academy of Sciences | $400,000 | Advancing Gulf of Mexico Operational Forecasting with Application to Fisheries, Industry Safety, and Natural Hazards (GOFFISH) | NAS |
| April 2022 | Dean Hardy, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve, State of Georgia | $17,959 | An Assessment of the Ditches and Water Levels in Hog Hammock on Sapelo Island. | NERR |
| March 2022 | Berten Ely, Biological Sciences | National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,740,170 | UofSC Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program | NIGMS |
| March 2022 | Sofia Lizarraga, Biological Sciences | National Institute of Mental Health | $3,542,521 | ASH1L mediated transcription networks in autism spectrum disorders | NIMH |
| March 2022 | Deanna Smith, Biological Science | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health | $398,798 | Deciphering the cellular roles of LIS1 in the mature nervous system | NINDS, NIH |
| March 2022 | Christopher Sutton, Chemistry | University of Colorado, Department of Energy | $255,565 | Accelerated Selection of Optimal Perovskite Alloys for Solar PV using a Combined Quantum andMachine Learning Hierarchical Approach | DOE |
| March 2022 | Susan Cutter, Geography | UCLA, National Science Foundation | $5,000 | Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Wildfire Hazard Resilience and Risk Engineering(WiRE) | NSF |
| March 2022 | Christopher Tollefsen, Philosophy | George Mason University | $7,000 | Academic Freedom on Campus Lecture Series | |
| March 2022 | Meeta Banerjee, Psychology | Society for Community Research and Action, American Psychological Association | $2,500 | Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27) Award for research and work in Flint,Michigan | SCRA, APA |
| March 2022 | Guillermo Wippold, Psychology | Society for Community Research and Action, American Psychological Association | $2,500 | SCRA Research Scholar 2021 Program | SCRA, APA |
| March 2022 | John Fisher, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | Vestry of Saint James' Parish Church | $55,042 | Proposal for work at the St. James Parish in Goose Creek, SC for expansion of the National Register ofHistoric Places site boundaries | |
| March 2022 | Steven Smith, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology | The Chickasaw Nation | $4,945 | Archaeological Survey, Blackland Prairie FY2022 | |
| February 2022 | William Strosnider, Baruch Institute | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $135,802 | Guiding successful applications of floating treatment wetlands in brackish coastal ponds | NOAA |
| February 2022 | Tad Dallas, Biology | National Science Foundation | $274,542 | MSA: Understanding spatial patterns of abundance and occupancy in terms of taxa, traits, and space | NSF |
| February 2022 | Katie Kathrein, Biology | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health | $212,422 | Ing4-deficiency enhances the regenerative capacity of multipotent progenitor cells | NIDDK, NIH |
| February 2022 | Annie Bourbonnais, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $37,467 | Collaborative Research: A Novel Carbon Nanotube Based Phosphate Sensor Using Potentiometric Principles for Oceanographic Use | NSF |
| February 2022 | Erin Meyer-Gutbrod, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | South Carolina Research Foundation, Tides Foundation | $124,947 | Detecting vocalizations of endangered North Atlantic right whales along the winter migration corridor | SCRF |
| February 2022 | George Voulgaris, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Science Foundation | $867,987 | Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Cross-Shelf Plumes under Upwelling Wind Conditions | NSF |
| February 2022 | Alicia Wilson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SC Sea Grant | $158,346 | Studying How Things Fall Apart: Exploring Municipal Services System Failures to Help Develop Science-Based Decision-Points in South Carolina Coastal Communities | NOAA |
| January 2022 | Andrea Henderson-Platt, Sociology | University of Michigan, National Institutes of Health | $89,115 | Structural Racism and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the U.S. South: A Multigenerational Perspective | NIH |
| January 2022 | Geoffrey Alpert, Criminolgy and Criminal Justice | Clemson University, Office of Justice Programs, Department of Justice | $65,650 | An Evaluation of De-Escalation Training to Understand the Links between Training and Outcomes | OJP, DOJ |
| January 2022 | Caryn Outten, Chemistry | National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,925,290 | Mechanisms of Fungal Iron Regulation and Thiol Redox Metabolism | NIH, NIGMS |
| December 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center, National Science Foundation | $28,071 | Paleoepidemiological and ancient DNA study of a potential epidemic site | NSF |
| December 2021 | James Spirek, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology |
South Carolina Department of Archives and History | $250,000 | A New Andalucía: Surveying for the Flagship of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón in South Carolina | SCDAH |
| December 2021 | John Kupfer, Geography |
North Carolina State University, Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior | $60,437 | Managing Fire in Longleaf Pine Ecosystems: Current Constraints and the Longer-Term Challenges of Landscape Transformation and Anthropogenic Climate Change | SECASC, USGS, DOI |
| December 2021 | Scott Decker, Psychology |
The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 | Predicting at-risk reading outcomes in multi-tiered models using diagnostic cognitive and neuro-cognitive tests | |
| December 2021 | Scott Decker, Psychology |
The Woodcock Institute | $15,000 | Integrating Instructional and Diagnostic Testing in Multi-tiered Models to Identify Children with Dyslexia Using a Neuropsychological Approach | |
| December 2021 | Elizabeth Will, Psychology | The Woodcock Institute | $49,592 | A Longitudinal Outcome Study of the Symptom Progression and Diagnostic Stability of Autism in Children with Down syndrome | |
| November 2021 | Magda Stawkowski, Anthropology |
Wenner-Grenn Foundation | $40,000 |
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship: Mutant Encounters: Radioactive Life on the Semipalatinsk
Nuclear Test
Site in Kazakhstan
|
|
| November 2021 | Jeffry Dudycha, Biological Sciences |
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | $453,739 | Resource development for the Daphnia dentifera - Metschnikowia bicuspidata host-symbiont system. | |
| November 2021 | Christi Metcalfe, Criminology and Criminal Justice |
National Institute of Justice, Department of Justice | $357,234 |
Court Decision-Making in Domestic Violence Cases: An Analysis of the Case Processing
Pipeline in
South Carolina
|
NIJ, DOJ |
| November 2021 | Adam King, SC Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology |
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources | $11,000 | Archaeological Survey and Testing at Spanish Mount Site (38CH62) | SCDNR |
| November 2021 | Joshua Tebbs, Statistics |
University of Nebraska, National Institutes of Health | $370,720 | Group testing for infectious disease detection | NIH |
| October 2021 | Robert Dunn, Baruch Institute |
The Regents of the University of Michigan, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | $599,959 | Integrating climate change effects into ecosystem-based fisheries management: Penaeid shrimp in the southeast US | NOAA, DOC |
| October 2021 | Fabienne Poulain, Biological Sciences |
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health | $407,545 | Beyond ephrins: unbiased discovery of novel signaling pathways regulating topographic map formation and maturation in vivo | NINDS, NIH |
| October 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
East Carolina University, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health | $683,450 | Homeostatic Reset as a New Therapeutic Paradigm for Slow Progression Diseases | NIGMS, NIH |
| October 2021 | Christopher Sutton, Chemistry |
Rennselear Polytechnic Institute, Department of Energy | $376,000 | Beyond-DFT Electrochemistry with Accelerated and Solvated Techniques (BEAST) | DOE |
| October 2021 | Donald Jordan, Center for Science Education |
National Science Teachers Association, Department of Defense | $28,252 | UofSC Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) | DOD |
| October 2021 | Mathew Boylan, Mathematics |
National Security Agency | $15,029 | Number Theory Meetings in the Southeast | NSA |
| October 2021 | Christian Cicimurri, McKissick Museum |
National Endowment for the Humanities | $9,993 | NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions to Purchase Materials and Supplies for the Long-Term Care of Folklife Collections at McKissick Museum | |
| October 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
South Carolina Association of Counties Folklife Partnership Renewal Grant | $66,033 | SCAC Folklife Partnership Renewal Grant | |
| October 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
Lee County, American Rescue Plan Act, Department of Transportation | $14,550 | Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden Capital Investment | ARPA, DOT |
| October 2021 | Mark Weist, Psychology | East Carolina University, Institute of Educational Sciences, United States Department of Education | $1,756,552 | Improving Social, Emotional, Behavioral, and Academic Functioning of Elementary School Students through the Interconnected Systems Framework | IES, USDE |
| October 2021 | Annie Bourbonnaise, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
South Carolina Sea Grant, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $156,359 | Evaluating nitrogen removal strategies to improve stormwater management practices in coastal South Carolina | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Jennifer Plunket, Baruch Institute |
National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $68,970 | North Inlet - Winyah Bay NERR: Climate Vulnerability Web Application Development | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Bert Ely, Center for Science Education |
South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $8,380 | Get Hurricane Smart: Centering Youth as Ambassadors of Community Hurricane Resilience | NOAA |
| September 2021 | Donna Chen, Chemistry |
Department of Energy | $219,276 | Multimetallic Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable, Multifunctional Catalysts for Gas-Phase Hydroformylation and Hydrogenation Reactions | DOE |
| September 2021 |
Natlia Shustova, |
Boston College, Department of Energy | $66,327 | Organometallic Catalysis form Molecular Catalysts Non-Covalently Confined in Metal-Organic Frameworks | DOE |
| September 2021 | Bobby Donaldson, Center for Civil Rights |
National Park Service, Department of the Interior | $500,000 | National Park Service: African American Civil Rights Grant Opportunity | NPS, DOI |
| September 2021 | Lili Ju, Mathematics |
Department of Energy | $300,000 | Reliable and Efficient Machine Learning for Leadership Facility Scientific Data Analytics | DOE |
| September 2021 | Lana Burgess, McKissick Museum |
South Carolina Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities | $2,000 | The Changing Cultural Climate in Museums | NEH |
| September 2021 | Yordanka Ilieva, Physics |
National Science Foundation | $1,350,000 | NSF-BSF: The Study of Nuclear Physics with Intermediate Energy Probes | NSF |
| September 2021 | Mark Weist, Psychology | South Carolina Department of Mental Health | $35,476 | John H. Magill School Mental Health Certificate Program | |
| September 2021 | Michael Bizimis, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior | $31,340 | Nd, Hf, Sr isotope Analyses USGS (RFQ 140G0321Q0178) | DOI |
| September 2021 |
Yen-Yl Ho, |
National Institutes of Health | $360,498 | scDECO: A novel statistical framework to systematically identify differential co-expression gene combinations using single-cell RNA sequencing data | NIH |
| September 2021 | Dewei Wang, Statistics |
University of Louisville Research Foundation, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health | $98,351 | Global significance test based on quantile regression with applications to genomic studies of Alzheimer's disease | NIA, NIH |
| August 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
National Science Foundation | $22,753 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Histories of Stress: A Life Course Approach to Population Health in Medieval Berlin | NSF |
| August 2021 | Sharon DeWitte, Anthropology |
National Science Foundation | $25,194 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Sex Differentials in Frailty in Medieval Ireland | NSF |
| August 2021 | Nathan Senner, Biological Sciences |
National Science Foundation | $349,864 | Climate change, community dynamics, and long-distance migratory birds | NSF |
| August 2021 | Bobby Donaldson, Center for Civil Rights |
UofSC Educational Foundation, Central Carolina Community Foundation | $24,458 | A Community Engagement Strategy for Justice for All: South Carolina and the American Civil Rights Movement (3rd Party Match for U00029760) | CCCF |
| August 2021 | Stephen Dilworth, Mathematics |
Simons Foundation | $42,000 | Banach Spaces and Applications | |
| August 2021 | Frank Thorne, Mathematics |
National Science Foundation | $191,555 | Quantitative Methods in Arithmetic Statistics | NSF |
| August 2021 | Kimberly Becker, Psychology |
Society for Community Research and Action, William T. Grant Foundation | $60,000 | Mentoring Grant_2021_Becker and Chu | SCRA |
| August 2021 |
Wendy Chu, |
American Psychological Association | $2,411 | Collective Trauma Requires Collective Healing: Understanding How Asian Americans Respond to Anti-Asian Racism Using a Racial Healing Framework | APA |
| August 2021 | Elizabeth Will, Psychology |
National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development | $291,072 | Early Developmental Determinants and Pathways in Down syndrome | NIH, NICHD |
| August 2021 |
James Spirek, |
The Hunley Commission | $50,000 | USS Housatonic Investigation Project | |
| August 2021 | Claudia Benitez-Nelson, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
National Science Foundation | $140,467 | Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES GP17-OCE and GP17-ANT: Export and remineralization rates of bioactive and particle reactive trace elements using thorium-234 | NSF |
| August 2021 | George Voulgaris, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $550,000 | SECOORA - Partnering to meet the needs of coastal communities for actionable information to protect lives and property: SC HF Radar | SECOORA, NOAA |
| July 2021 | Joseph Quattro, Biological Sciences |
National Park Service | $99,505 | Soil Macrofauna Inventory at Congaree National Park With an Emphasis on Synchronous-Flashing Fireflies | NPS |
| July 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
Clemson University, South Carolina Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research | $18,000 | Stimuli-responsive polymers to modulate peptide efficacy in axon regeneration | SC EPSCoR |
| July 2021 | Jeffery Twiss, Biological Sciences |
Craig H. Nielsen Foundation | $600,000 | Axonal Stress Granules in Spinal Cord Injury | |
| July 2021 | Carolyn Wessinger, Biological Sciences |
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences | $1,840,840 | Quantitative genetics and population genomics of repeated complex trait evolution | NIH, NIGMS |
| July 2021 |
Susan Richardson, |
National Science Foundation | $150,000 | Collaborative Proposal: Treatment of Cyanotoxins by UV/Chlorine: Optimizing Removal While Developing Strategies to Minimize Disinfection Byproducts and Toxicity | NSF |
| July 2021 | Hui Wang, Chemistry |
Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society | $110,000 | Pathway Switch of Catalytic Hydrogenation Reactions on Sub-5 nm Platinum Nanocatalysts | ACS |
| July 2021 | Elaine Chun, English Language and Literature |
National Science Foundation | $9,216 | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Language Ideologies and Activism in Transgender Communities in the U.S South - Archie Crowley | NSF |
| July 2021 | Kirsten Lackstrom, Geology |
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | $18,455 | Drought Planning in the Southeast United States: An Assessment of State Approaches, Planning Needs and Gaps, and Opportunities for the Southeast Drought Early Warning System | NOAA |
| July 2021 | Constance Shulz, History |
National Historical Publications and Records Commission | $110,000 | Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen - FINAL NHPRC proposal | NHPRC |
| July 2021 | Linyuan Lu, Mathematics |
National Science Foundation | $1,530,973 | RTG: Mathematical Foundation of Data Science at University of South Carolina | NSF |
| July 2021 | Jane Przybysz, McKissick Museum |
Central Carolina Community Foundation | $37,263 | Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden | CCCF |
| July 2021 | Jessica Bradshaw, Psychology |
James S. McDonnell Foundation | $250,000 | Embodied Infant Experience and Neurodevelopmental Disorders | |
| July 2021 | Courtnie Smith, Psychology |
South Carolina Research Foundation, BlueCross BlueShield Foundation | $382,295 | South Carolina School Mental Health Internship and Educational Program | |
| July 2021 | Besim Dragovic, School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment |
National Science Foundation | $314,922 | Collaborative Research: Developing crystal clocks in metamorphic rocks: Using lithium in subduction zone garnets to decipher fluid release timescales | NSF |