A faculty member of the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality, Brown-Smith's research interests focus on HIV intervention and prevention; childhood trauma; social, behavioral and mental health; and aging--as both separate and intersecting areas of study.
Working in collaboration with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Charleston, South Carolina, Xiao will use the funding to support a project examining the impact of marine contaminants on ovarian function of bottlenose dolphins.
Earlier this year, Cozad and her research team won two poster awards connected to their research on patient decision-making, which is funded by a grant Cozad received from Pfizer in 2017.
After her August graduation, Sarah Piperato moved to Philadelphia to begin a postdoctoral research fellowship at Temple University. Long term, she plans to pursue a tenure-track faculty member position at a large university and continue her research on LGBT health disparities.
ENHS professor Alan Decho and a team of researchers have been awarded a $400k grant from NASA's Astrobiology: Exobiology Program to study cooperation and adaptability in microbial mats in extreme environments using quorum sensing.
With interests in human behavior, education and health promotion interventions, Martínez-Jaikel has more than a decade of experience implementing health life style programs for low-income women in Costa Rica.
As of June, 2019, the COMD department will have a new forever home at the Close-Hipp building on the UofSC campus. With this move, the Center will be renamed the Montgomery Speech, Hearing, and Language Clinic.
Doctoral candidate pursues career in biostatistics with focus on correcting for response bias in survey data.
The study, which was the first large randomized controlled trial to examine the effect of tDCS on aphasia, was led by communication sciences and disorders professor Julius Fridriksson.
As a recipient of this prestigious award, Hamilton will receive a living stipend, all expenses paid to attend the annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, access to professional development funding, and participation in the SREB's online scholar directory.
Alicia Dahl, an August graduate of the Ph.D. in health promotion, education, and behavior program, will join the faculty ranks of the public health sciences department.
The USC Office of the Vice President for Research has announced the receipt of an additional $10 million over five years to support the Center, with one of its four major research projects lead by environmental health sciences associate professor Saurabh Chatterjee.