The Office of the Vice President for Research is pleased to announce 29 recipients of the 2023 Research Initiative for Summer Engagement, or RISE, program grant awards. These faculty researchers from USC’s system campuses will receive RISE funding to support their summer research projects.
The RISE Program is an internal funding initiative through which faculty members at USC’s system campuses have the opportunity to compete for funding to support research and scholarly projects conducted during the summer months. The funds are offered through the Office of the Vice President for Research, with generous support from the chancellors at the four-year system campuses, USC Aiken, USC Beaufort and USC Upstate.
Congratulations to the 2023 class of RISE grant recipients.
2023 Comprehensive Institution RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | College |
|---|---|
| Barideaux, Kenneth James | University of SC Upstate |
| Brien, Sinead | University of SC Upstate |
| Byun, Sung Hun | University of SC Upstate |
| Coulombe, Brianne R | University of SC Aiken |
| Dinger, Michael | University of SC Upstate |
| Elyaderani, Hadis | University of SC Beaufort |
| Hancock, Charles Nathan | University of SC Aiken |
| King, Sarah Catherine | University of SC Aiken |
| Lorenz, Alexander | University of SC Upstate |
| McCoy, Erin | University of SC Beaufort |
| McCraw, Benjamin William | University of SC Upstate |
| Mills, Mary K. | University of SC Aiken |
| Pazda, Adam | University of SC Aiken |
| Placek, Matthew | University of SC Upstate |
| Shehi Herr, Monika | University of SC Upstate |
| Skees, Murray W | University of SC Beaufort |
| Stolz, Nolan | University of SC Upstate |
| Wade, Julie | University of SC Upstate |
| Zhang, Xudong | University of SC Upstate |
2023 Palmetto College Campus RISE Recipients
| Recipient Name | Project Title | College |
|---|---|---|
| Dangerfield, David W. | Strangers in the Land: Mixed-Raced and Indigenous Communities in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1860-1960 | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Elliott, Julia E. | The Colony | Palmetto College |
| Gerald, Amy | The Black Grimkes in Charleston: Building Public Memory of Black Descendants of White Planters | University of SC Lancaster |
| Iden Lindmark, Kirsten Thomas | Gendered Power and Colonial Literacy in the Letters of Eliza Lucas Pinckney | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Klik, Kathleen Anne | An Exploration of Faculty Welfare: The Impact of Campus Social and Work Environment on Faculty Outcomes | University of SC Union |
| Kunka, Andrew James | Good Comics: Dell, Gold Key, and the History of Comic Books | University of SC Sumter |
| Mogilski, Justin Kyle | Using causal network analysis to determine which intimate relationship processes cause the Multi-partner Relationship Maintenance Scale (MRMS) practices to improve relationship quality | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Nooe, Franklin (Evan) | Indigenous Dispossession and Settler Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century US South | University of SC Lancaster |
| Steward, Rodney J | Twisting John Bull's Arm: Sequestration and Confederate Diplomatic Strategy | University of SC Salkehatchie |
| Varjosaari, Sami | Elucidating the structure of Pinckneyin, a potential anti-malarial substance found in Georgia Bark (Pinckneya Bracteata) | University of SC Sumter |