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The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced the 2020 research-related service awards, and associate professors Jan Eberth and Brie Turner-McGrievy are among those selected from across the university.
The South Carolina Speech-Language-Hearing Association has selected Kenn Apel, professor and chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, to receive the Honors of the Association.
Graduate students from across the Arnold School have earned 2019-2020 SPARC Graduate Research Grants from the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research to fund individual scholarship initiatives.
Professor Ron Prinz (College of Arts and Sciences) landed an $11.16 million grant to establish the NIH Research Center for Child Well-Being with Exercise Science Professor Michael Beets and 15 other UofSC collaborators.
In 2019, Mufaro Kanyangarara joined the Arnold School to continue advancing her research in the areas of global health and infectious diseases, particularly those affecting mothers, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries.
Members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association have been presenting and publishing findings from a series of studies on concussions among athletes who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
Guoshuai Cai was studying microbiology as a master's student when he first encountered the emerging field of bioinformatics - the development of software tools for understanding biological data - which was riding a wave of explosive growth.
After a few years as a physical therapist, Allison Lewis began looking at doctoral programs to better understand how to optimize clinical interventions and found her way to the Arnold School's Ph.D. in Exercise Science program (ranked No. 1 in the nation).
Two doctoral students in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics have won awards for their submissions to the 2019 Spirituality and Public Health Student Essay Contest. Rajat Das Gupta won first prize, and Maxwell Akonde won third prize.
Shaun Owens, an assistant professor in the College of Social Work and an alumnus of the Arnold School's Ph.D. in Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior program, has been recognized for his work on behalf of older adults and cancer patients.
Ph.D. in HPEB alumna Julianna Jayne leads the Military Nutrition Division in providing the biomedical science basis for nutritional approaches that enable optimal performance for services members.
Members of the COMD department's Aphasia Laboratory have published a paper included in the top ten list for the most downloaded/read articles of the 750 papers published by American Speech and Hearing Association journals in 2019.