The Vice President for Research is pleased to announce the 2015 recipients of the
Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, or RISE program. This year, 35 faculty
researchers from USC’s system campuses received RISE funds to support their summer
research projects. We are very happy to congratulate this group of outstanding USC
professors working at four-year and Palmetto College campuses, and online degree completion
programs, around the state. We would also like to thank the chancellors at four-year
campuses USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate for their collaboration in funding
RISE awards for their faculty.
The RISE, or Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, program provides financial
support to pay for summer salary, research supplies, travel related to research and
undergraduate student support. Read more about this innovative program.
Four-Year Campuses
2015 USC Aiken RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
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| DeAnna Gore |
Gender Differences in Being Childfree |
| Bing Han |
A Cross-Cultural Study of Perspective Taking and Empathy on Conflict Strategies |
| Douglas Higbee |
Teaching Representations of the First World War |
| Richard Maltz |
Compose A Day at the Beach, a Children's Opera |
| Heather Peterson |
Sucking the Blood of the Miserable Indians: Interpretations of Indian Mortality in
New Spain from 1520 to 1620 |
| Laura Quaynor |
Preparation and Practices of Teachers of English as a Second Language (ESL) Students
in South Carolina after Decades of Exponential Population Growth |
| Alexandra Roach |
Diabetes Influences Inhibitory Control Performance Independent of Age in Cognitively
Normal Older Adults |
| Keri Weed |
Representation of Number Magnitude in College Students |
2015 USC Beaufort RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Kimberly Cavanagh |
Culture of Care in the Lowcountry: Reflecting on the Past to Understand the Present
and Shape the Future Nursing Workforce |
| Edward D'Antonio |
Marine Worms Amphitrite ornata and Lepidasthenia commensalis: Investigation into Halogenated-Phenol
Detoxification by Heme Enzymes |
| Brian Glaze |
Installation Art |
| Xuwei Liang |
An Integrated White Matter Analysis System Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging |
| Eric Montie |
Developing Zebrafish as a Biomedical Model to Understand the Neuro-developmental Effects
of
Thyroid Hormone Disrupting Chemicals
|
2015 USC Upstate RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Amy Connolly |
A Project to Develop a More Meaningful Framework for Using Online Social Media in
Volunteer Organizations |
| Michael Dinger |
The Impact of Embeddedness on IT Professional Behavior: A Study of Skills and Labor
Market Forces
|
| Esther Godfrey |
Until Death Do Us Part: The Marriage Debate in Victorian Literature |
| Samantha Hauptman |
The Criminalization of Law Enforcement: America's War on Police |
| Merri Johnson |
Queer Minds |
| Scott Meek |
The Role of Intent in Deception |
| Desiree Rowe |
Performing Gender-Based Resistance in Eastern Germany |
| Joshua Ruppel |
Synthesis of Glycosylated 5,15-Diphenylporphyrin and 5,10,15,20-Tetraphenylporphyrin
Analogs Using Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions |
| Nolan Stolz |
Completion and Presentation of "Neither Here Nor There: Electroacoustic Composition,
Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Eleventh-Century Scottish Music" at the 2015 College Music
Society International Conference (Sweden and Finland) |
| George Williams |
Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities, Phase II |
| Lizabeth Zack |
Resurrecting the Dead: Activists, States and Corporations in the Campaign to Save
the Dead Sea |
| Wei Zhong |
Applying Big Data Frameworks to the Development of Intrusion Detection Systems |
Palmetto College Campuses and Online Programs
2015 USC Palmetto College Online Program Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Melody Lehn |
The Rise of the White Glove Pulpit: Modern First Ladies and the Art of Diplomacy |
2015 USC Salkehatchie RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Eran Kilpatrick |
Hybridization Among Eastern Newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) in North Carolina |
| Fidele Ngwane |
A family of Trigonometric-Fitted Hybrid Methods for the Direct Solution of Second-Order
Oscillatory Initial Value Problems |
| Rodney Steward |
Neither Confederate nor Unionist: Coercion and Victimization in the Shenandoah Valley |
2015 USC Sumter RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Mary Ellen Bellanca |
Jane Loudon's Wildflowers, Popular Science, and the Victorian Culture of Knowledge |
| Hampton Hayes |
Alchemy and Popular Music: Summer Salary Request to Complete a Refereed Journal Article |
| Andrew Kunka |
A Contract with God, The First Kingdom, and the Graphic Novel, The Will Eisner/Jack
Katz Letters |
| Donald McManus |
Other Secrets: A Collection of Poems on the 21st Century Male |
2015 USC Union RISE Recipients
Recipient Name
|
Project Title
|
| Randy Lowell |
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition while Reading English as a Second Language: The
Influence of Contextual Constraint and Morphological Transparency |
| Christine Sixta Rinehart |
Targeted Killing in the Middle East: An Appraisal of American Counterterrorism Policies |
9 March 2015