The Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2018-2019 recipients of the SPARC Graduate Research Grant. These 57 graduate students from eight academic units worked with faculty advisors to prepare and submit competitive proposals, earning valuable grant-writing experience, as well as funds to support their research and scholarly projects.
2018-2019 SPARC Graduate Research Grant Recipients
| Recipient Name | Department or Program |
Proposal Title |
| Trenton Agrelius | Biological Sciences | Message mystery: How Daphnia relay environmentally relevant information to future generations. |
| Saba Arash | Physics and Astronomy | Second Harmonic Generation Measurement on Multiferroic Janus Fibers |
| Sean Ardor | Theatre | The Embodied Imagination: Noh Drama and the Power of the Individual Performer |
| Madeline Atwell | Anthropology | Mental Institutionalization and Health: Biocultural perspectives of skeletal trauma and disease from state hospitals in the 20th-century United States |
| Alexandra Bethlenfalvy | History | "Operation Freedom Summer": Highlander Folk School and the Expansion of Voter Education Pedagogy, 1954-1964 |
| Genine Blue | Educational Psychology and Research |
Investigating Elements of Responsive Instruction in Pre-service Teachers’ Classrooms |
| Rachel Bridges | School Psychology | Validation of a Computerized Attention Screening Measure |
| Margaret Carson | Environmental Health Sciences |
The Effect of Temperature Variation on Lyngbya wollei Toxin in Adult Zebrafish in Lake Wateree, SC |
| Danda Chapagai | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
Selective Inhibition of the Polo-Like Kinase 1 for Prostate Cancer |
| Eric Chinaeke | Pharmaceutical Sciences (Pharmaceutical and Health Outcomes) |
Use of Highly-Active Antiretroviral Therapies (HAART) and Risk of Diabetes Among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries With HIV |
| 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? |
| Leily Daneshian | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Intradiol Ring Cleavage Dioxygenases in Tetranychus urticae Xenobiotic Metabolism |
| Melissa DeVelvis | History | Gendering Secession: Women and Politics in South Carolina, 1860-1861 |
| Shelby Dickerson | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Tuning the Redox Properties of Silicon Phthalocyanines by Peripheral-Substitution for Organic Photocatalysis |
| Kelli Dubois | Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior | Decision Making for Treatment and Management Methods Over the Illness Trajectory of Ulcerative Colitis |
| Calley Fisk | Sociology | Unequal States of America: How State-level Racial Policies Impact Individual Health Disparities |
| Marco Forgione | Philosophy | Path Integrals and Holism |
| Jill Found | History | Institutional Enslavement: Enslaved Lives at American Colleges and Universities |
| Paul Fram | Educational Psychology and Research | A Qualitative Analysis of the Intersections with Race in Middle School Children's Home/School Identities and Perceptions of School Discipline Experiences |
| Nazli Gharraee | Biomedical Engineering | Role of smooth muscle progenitor cells in the progression of thoracic aortic aneurysm in a mouse model of Marfan syndrome |
| Andrew Green | Creative Writing | When America Worked |
| Michael Gregory | Philosophy | The Sources of Juridical Normativity in Kant |
| Zac Hart | Environmental Health Sciences | Assessing Stakeholder Needs and Preferences for Coastal Swimming Advisories in Charleston, South Carolina |
| William Hayes | Experimental Psychology | Modeling the role of arousal in risky decision-making |
| Nicholas Heiserman | Sociology | Complex Stereotyping Stereotypes at the Intersections of Race Gender Age and Social Class |
| Xiao Huang | Geography | A Deep Learning Supported Flood Mapping Framework that Integrates Remote Sensing and Social Sensing |
| Yuqin Jiang | Geography | Analyzing Human Mobility Patterns during Hurricane Matthew Evacuation |
| Yanping Jiang | Health Promotion, Education and Behavior | Effects of a Resilience-Based Psychosocial Intervention on Cortisol Regulation for Children Affected by Parental HIV |
| Nare Kareptyan | Computer Science | Area Coverage of River Under Consideration of River Meanders |
| Joshua Kleppinger | Electrical Engineering | Novel 4H-SiC Radiation Detector for Remote Characterization of High Level Radioactive Waste Tank and Nuclear Safeguard |
| Allison Lewis | Exercise Science | Effects of Social Comparative Feedback on Motor Sequence Learning |
| Xing Liu | Management | The Effect of Team Faultlines on Team Adaptation to Member Change |
| Jennifer Mandelbaum | Health Promotion, Education and Behavior | Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Health: Obesity and Asthma in a Syndemics Perspective |
| Gwen Miller | Marine Science | Use of computed tomography to investigate the influence of elevation on below ground biomass within a salt marsh |
| 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 |
| William Ovalle-Villamil | Civil Engineering | Piping Erosion in Earthen Structures Physical Modeling to Evaluate the Effects of Soil Gradation and Particle Shape |
| Chamberline Ozigbu | Health Services Policy and Management | Beyond Vaccination Coverage: A Critical Look at Never-Vaccinated Children in Ethiopia |
| Michelle Passerotti | Biological Sciences | Non-Lethal Age Estimation Using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS): An Innovative Tool For Fisheries and Conservation Management |
| Kaitlyn Pilarzyk | Biomedical Sciences | The Role of PDE11A4 in Social Isolation |
| Elizabeth Regan | Exercise Science | Integrating Stroke Survivors into Cardiac Rehabilitation |
| Gustavo Schneider | Marketing | The Numeral Effect: Are 12 and Dozen the Same? |
| 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. |
| Amanda Stafford McRell | Social Work | The Role of Local Nonprofits in the Promotion, Protection and Provision of Children’s Rights for Unaccompanied and Separated Minors |
| Madeline Steiner | History | The Robber Barons of Show Business: Traveling Amusements and the Development of the American Entertainment Industry, 1870-1910 |
| Michael Stutz | Statistics | Machine Learning Algorithms for Partially Supervised Data with Applications in Group Testing |
| Corinne Trott | Marine Science | Utilizing Salinity as a Predictor for the Indian Summer Monsoon Onset and Forecasting |
| Keller VandeBogert | Mathematics | A Classification of Compressed Artinian Algebras of Prescribed Socle Type |
| Robert Vandermolen | Mathematics | Kernels for Homological Duality |
| Carla Wall | School Psychology | Decoding the Heterogeneity of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Biobehavioral Study of Social Attention Across Intellectual Ability, Sex, and Syndrome |
| Fan Wang | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Polymerization in Place: Conversion of Mobile Contaminants to Fixed Polymers |
| 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 |
| Jeffrey Williams | History | Social Engineers: The NAACP's Local Lawyers and the Fight for Human and Civil Rights |
| Amber Wilson | Criminology and Criminal Justice | Community Corrections Officer Orientation, Gender, and Decision-Making |
| Qi Zhang | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Maternal Stress and Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer |