January 22, 2019 | Erin Bluvas, bluvase@sc.edu
Fifteen of the 57 2018-2019 Support to Promote Advancement of Research and Creativity (SPARC) Graduate Research Grants from the UofSC Office of the Vice President for Research have been awarded to Arnold School graduate students. The students, who represent the departments of health promotion, education, and behavior, health services policy and management, environmental health sciences, epidemiology and biostatistics, and exercise science will have a little over a year to complete SPARC-funded projects (up to $5,000 each) that support the completion or promotion of their research, creative or other meritorious scholarship.
Previous SPARC awards have been used by Arnold School students to fund projects, such as reducing sedentary behavior to improve blood pressure, influences on parent shopping for children's consumption, disparities in access to surgical techniques for treating lung cancer, and uptake and toxicity of silver nanoparticles.
Upon completion, the students will present their findings at Discover USC and are encouraged to develop articles and papers based on their projects for publication in scholarly journals. Before the actual projects even begin, however, the students have already learned about the competitive research proposal process that will continue throughout many of their careers.
The Office of the Vice President for Research designs SPARC application materials to simulate the experience of applying for nationally competitive grants, helping applicants develop their skills in these areas. Students must supply the standard components of a comprehensive grant proposal package, such as a detailed research narrative, budget and other supporting documentation.
Congratulations to the following Arnold School graduate students who have earned 2018-2019 SPARC awards.
|
Name |
Department |
Project Title |
| Margaret Carson | Environmental Health Sciences | The Effect of Temperature Variation on Lyngbya wollei Toxin in Adult Zebrafish in Lake Wateree, SC |
| Anna Cofie | Health Services Policy and Management | Trends in antenatal care use and reasons for non-compliance with WHO recommendations in Ghana |
| Kaitlyn Crosby | Health Services Policy and Management | Clinically Integrated Networks: The 'Magic Pill' for Improving the Quality of Health Care? |
| Kelli Dubois | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Decision Making for Treatment and Management Methods Over the Illness Trajectory of Ulcerative Colitis |
| Zac Hart | Environmental Health Sciences | Assessing Stakeholder Needs and Preferences for Coastal Swimming Advisories in Charleston, South Carolina |
| Yanping Jiang | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Effects of a Resilience-Based Psychosocial Intervention on Cortisol Regulation for Children Affected by Parental HIV |
| Allison Lewis | Exercise Science | Effects of Social Comparative Feedback on Motor Sequence Learning |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Health: Obesity and Asthma in a Syndemics Perspective |
| Ryan Montalvo | Exercise Science | Effect of Increased Superoxide Dismutase-2 Expression on Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction |
| Omonefe Omofuma | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Dietary Advanced Glycation End-Products (dAGE) and Breast Cancer Risk |
| Chamberline Ozigbu | Health Services Policy and Management | Beyond Vaccination Coverage: A Critical Look at Never-Vaccinated Children in Ethiopia |
| Elizabeth Regan | Exercise Science | Integrating Stroke Survivors into Cardiac Rehabilitation |
| Khairul Siddiqi | Health Services Policy and Management | Trends of Age-specific Comorbidity Burden and Resource Use, and Factors Predicting Costs and Mortality of the People Living with HIV in the US Inpatient Department, 2002 to 2015. |
| Yingzheng Wang | Environmental Health Sciences | Late Effect of Doxorubicin-induced Ovarian Inflammation on Female Ovarian Function and Fertility |
| Ashley White | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior |
Snip, Snip: Vasectomy in the American South |
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